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Weekly Toll: Killed on the Job

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Partial Stay of Execution? What’s Happening at NIOSH?

May 1, 2025 Jordan Barab
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American Poison: How Leaded Gas Companies Beat The Toxicologists

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A Workers Memorial Day Letter to President Trump

April 28, 2025 Kathleen Rest
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Weekly Toll: Killed on the Job
Weekly Toll
Weekly Toll: Killed on the Job
Partial Stay of Execution? What’s Happening at NIOSH?
Agriculture Mine Safety NIOSH
Partial Stay of Execution? What’s Happening at NIOSH?
American Poison: How Leaded Gas Companies Beat The Toxicologists
Books Occupational Disease
American Poison: How Leaded Gas Companies Beat The Toxicologists
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Fires and Firefighting Weekly Toll
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OSHA Trench Collapse

Rick Burns: Labor Day In Memorium

September 4, 2017 Jordan Barab

Today is Labor Day, a day many of us spend celebrating the work of American workers and the labor movement…

Chemical Plant Safety Chemical Safety Board Climate Change Environmental Protection Agency Hurricane Harvey

Post-Harvey Chemical Plant Start-Ups: Something Wicked This Way Comes

September 2, 2017 Jordan Barab

The Department of Labor yesterday announced a number of initiatives to address the impact of Hurricane Harvey. Among those was…

Photo of the Week

Photo of the Week: Shoe Shine, Minneapolis-St. Paul Airport

September 2, 2017 Jordan Barab

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Chemical Plant Safety Hurricane Harvey

Harvey: The Extent of the Disaster In Chemical Corridor

September 1, 2017 Jordan Barab

For Your Reading “Pleasure” The explosions in the Arkema Chemical plant in Crosby, Texas will most likely not be catastrophic.…

Chemical Plant Safety Chemical Safety Board Climate Change Environmental Protection Agency Hurricane Harvey OSHA Trump

Harvey Update: Flooded Chemical Plant Explodes. Trump Policies Increase Future Risk

September 1, 2017 Jordan Barab

Cable news and newspapers across the country are headlining the continuing explosions at the Arkema chemical plant in Crosby, Texas,…

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Harvey: What Will OSHA Do?

August 30, 2017 Jordan Barab

The rain finally seems to be stopping in Texas, but the struggles there are just beginning as the huge job…

Fatalities OSHA Trump

Trump to Visit Company Where Worker Was Killed After Company Removed Guard

August 30, 2017 Jordan Barab

Donald Trump is on his way to Springfield, Missouri today to deliver a major speech about tax cuts reform at…

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A Face For Radio

August 29, 2017 Jordan Barab

I was on WTOP Radio at noon today to talk about OSHA’s removal of the list of workplace fatalities from…

Fatalities Weekly Toll

Weekly Toll: OSHA Won’t Tell You Who Died In The Workplace. We Will

August 28, 2017 Jordan Barab

Last week in the workplace: Of note, three fatalities related to forklifts. Also, while OSHA removes workplace fatalities from its…

Fatalities OSHA Press Releases Recordkeeping

OSHA Cuts Back Fatality Reporting at Urging of Chamber of Commerce

August 28, 2017 Jordan Barab

Who’s running OSHA now? Alexandra Berzon of the Wall St. Journal reports that OSHA cut back its reporting of workplace…

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