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Weekly Toll

Slashed Throat, Cooked in an Oven, Electrocutions and Heat Stroke: Why We Write the Weekly Toll

July 2, 2025 Jordan Barab
Weekly Toll

Weekly Toll: Killed At Work

July 2, 2025 Dylan Chamberlin
Public Employees Trench Collapse Weekly Toll

Weekly Toll: We All Have To Die Sometime

June 25, 2025 Dylan Chamberlin
Heat Regulations and Standards Regulatory Process

OSHA Heat Hearing: The Battle Commences

June 23, 2025 Jordan Barab
Occupational Disease Workplace Illness

Who Cares For Injured and Sick Workers?

June 19, 2025 Kathleen Rest
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Slashed Throat, Cooked in an Oven, Electrocutions and Heat Stroke: Why We Write the Weekly Toll
Weekly Toll
Slashed Throat, Cooked in an Oven, Electrocutions and Heat Stroke: Why We Write the Weekly Toll
Weekly Toll: Killed At Work
Weekly Toll
Weekly Toll: Killed At Work
Weekly Toll: We All Have To Die Sometime
Public Employees Trench Collapse Weekly Toll
Weekly Toll: We All Have To Die Sometime
OSHA Heat Hearing: The Battle Commences
Heat Regulations and Standards Regulatory Process
OSHA Heat Hearing: The Battle Commences
Kill OSHA: Then Shoot, Stab, Suffocate and Drown the Agency
Deconstructing the Administrative State OSHA
Kill OSHA: Then Shoot, Stab, Suffocate and Drown the Agency
Supreme Court’s Disastrous OSHA Decision: What Others Are Saying
COVID-19 Supreme Court
Supreme Court’s Disastrous OSHA Decision: What Others Are Saying
Brett Kavanaugh OSHA
Kavanaugh: Threat to Workers and to OSHA
OSHA Pulls Protections As Healthcare Worker Deaths Rise
COVID-19 Health Care Workers OSHA
OSHA Pulls Protections As Healthcare Worker Deaths Rise
Slashed Throat, Cooked in an Oven, Electrocutions and Heat Stroke: Why We Write the Weekly Toll
Weekly Toll
Slashed Throat, Cooked in an Oven, Electrocutions and Heat Stroke: Why We Write the Weekly Toll
Weekly Toll: Killed At Work
Weekly Toll
Weekly Toll: Killed At Work
Weekly Toll: We All Have To Die Sometime
Public Employees Trench Collapse Weekly Toll
Weekly Toll: We All Have To Die Sometime
OSHA Heat Hearing: The Battle Commences
Heat Regulations and Standards Regulatory Process
OSHA Heat Hearing: The Battle Commences
Chemical Standards

OSHA Alliance: Protecting Workers or Protecting the Chemical Industry?

September 15, 2017 Jordan Barab

OSHA may have strong principles about not issuing press releases that might embarrass companies that endanger or kill workers, but…

Fissured Workplace Temporary Employees

Undercover: Working and Dying as a Temporary Employee

September 14, 2017 Jordan Barab

OK, stick the kids in front of the TV, send your spouse out with friends and sit down for a…

Enforcement Press Releases

OSHA to the Public: ‘You Can’t Handle The Truth!’

September 13, 2017 Jordan Barab

OSHA has engaged in a furious flurry of press activity over the past month. Well, “furious” by Trump-OSHA standards. By…

Hurricane Harvey OSHA Penalties Poultry Industry

Chickens, Hurricanes and OSHA Penalties: Media Interest in Workplace Safety

September 13, 2017 Jordan Barab

One would think with monster hurricanes, threatened nuclear war with North Korea, plans to deport some of America’s best young…

Climate Change Hurricane Harvey NIOSH OSHA Workplace Illness

It’s in the Water: Protecting Hurricane Recovery Workers

September 12, 2017 Jordan Barab

With both Harvey and Irma behind us (barely), the time for cleanup, recovery and rebuilding is here. And workers across…

Chemical Plant Safety Hurricane Harvey Immigrants International MSHA Office of Management and Budget Recordkeeping Short Stuff

Dispatches From the Front Lines of the War On Worker Safety: Short Stuff

September 11, 2017 Jordan Barab

The Incredible Disappearing Security Breach: Hard to know what to say about this. Remember that alleged security “breach” in OSHA’s…

Fatalities Weekly Toll

Weekly Toll: Workers’ Deaths Are Not Statistics

September 11, 2017 Jordan Barab

A couple of comments before we get to this week’s list. We’ve written about OSHA’s unfortunate decision to remove the…

Photo of the Week

Photo of the Week: Tour Bus Driver, Union Station

September 8, 2017 Jordan Barab

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Budget MSHA NIOSH OSHA Susan Harwood Worker Training Program

Good Budget News (For a Change)

September 7, 2017 Jordan Barab

Today the full Senate Appropriations Committee reported out the FY 2018 Labor-HHS Funding Bill. The bill maintains OSHA, MSHA and…

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

Hurricanes and the Chemical Industry: Houston Chronicle Explores the Hazards We’re Facing

September 7, 2017 Jordan Barab

The New York Times discussed yesterday how prepared the chemical industry is for natural disasters like Hurricane Harvey. Today the…

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