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Public Employees Weekly Toll

Weekly Toll: Dead on the Job

January 27, 2026 Aina Atienza
Bureau of Labor Statistics Recordkeeping

Reported Workplace Injuries and Illnesses decline in Last Biden Year

January 26, 2026 Jordan Barab
Labor

The Unsung Heroes: Workers Braving the Monster Storm

January 24, 2026 Kathleen Rest
Budget Chemical Safety Board MSHA OSHA Susan Harwood Worker Training Program

Congress Rejects OSHA & MSHA Cuts

January 22, 2026 Jordan Barab
Public Employees Weekly Toll

Weekly Toll: How Workers Die

January 19, 2026 Aina Atienza
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Reported Workplace Injuries and Illnesses decline in Last Biden Year
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Reported Workplace Injuries and Illnesses decline in Last Biden Year
The Unsung Heroes: Workers Braving the Monster Storm
Labor
The Unsung Heroes: Workers Braving the Monster Storm
Congress Rejects OSHA & MSHA Cuts
Budget Chemical Safety Board MSHA OSHA Susan Harwood Worker Training Program
Congress Rejects OSHA & MSHA Cuts
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
Weekly Toll: Dead on the Job
Public Employees Weekly Toll
Weekly Toll: Dead on the Job
Reported Workplace Injuries and Illnesses decline in Last Biden Year
Bureau of Labor Statistics Recordkeeping
Reported Workplace Injuries and Illnesses decline in Last Biden Year
The Unsung Heroes: Workers Braving the Monster Storm
Labor
The Unsung Heroes: Workers Braving the Monster Storm
Congress Rejects OSHA & MSHA Cuts
Budget Chemical Safety Board MSHA OSHA Susan Harwood Worker Training Program
Congress Rejects OSHA & MSHA Cuts
Beryllium Recordkeeping Regulations and Standards Trump

Fall Regulatory Agenda Released: Not Much New For OSHA

December 15, 2017 Jordan Barab

Yesterday was that bi-annual event that all red-blooded Americans celebrate: the release of the new federal Regulatory Agenda; in this…

Regulations and Standards

Red Tape or More Bloody Bandages

December 14, 2017 Jordan Barab

From Donald Trump today: In 1960, there were approximately 20,000 pages in the Code of Federal Regulations. Today there are…

OSHA Press Releases Trench Collapse

“We were supposed to have another 20 years.” Death in the Trench

December 14, 2017 Jordan Barab

“Touching” “Infuriating” and hopefully “Educational” and “Motivating” are all words that come to mind reading this amazing article, Death in…

OSHA Senate

Mugno Voted Out Of Committee

December 14, 2017 Jordan Barab

On a straight party line vote, the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions committee voted late yesterday to approve Scott…

COSH Groups MSHA Short Stuff Temporary Employees Whistleblowers

Dispatches From the Front Lines of the Battle for Workplace Safety and Health: Short Stuff

December 13, 2017 Jordan Barab

COSHCON17 — The Young and the Active — : The National Council for Occupational Safety and Health, the umbrella group…

Books OSHA

Confined Space Holiday Book Shopping List. Shop here!!

December 12, 2017 Jordan Barab

Jingle Bells, Something Smells, Chemicals in the Air Oh what fun, it is to work, with respirators you must wear……

Weekly Toll

Weekly Toll: Falls, Trench Collapses, Shootings, Traffic Incidents. All In a Day’s Work

December 12, 2017 Jordan Barab

1 killed, 1 injured in scaffolding collapse at Md. elementary school construction site FREDERICK COUNTY, Md. (WJLA) — A subcontractor…

Enforcement Ergonomics Government Accountability Office NIOSH OSHA Poultry Industry

OSHA Rejects GAO Poultry Recommendations: Sees No Problem With Workers’ Restroom Access

December 12, 2017 Jordan Barab

In a surprising and disappointing apparent rollback of OSHA’s enforcement policy related to poultry inspections, Acting Assistant Secretary Loren Sweatt…

Chemical Standards Environmental Protection Agency Fatalities OSHA

Methylene Chloride Deaths: “All Preventable”

December 8, 2017 Jordan Barab

Methylene chloride kills. We wrote about 21-year old Kevin Hartley last June. He died last April 29 — Workers Memorial…

OSHA Senate

Scott Mugno: What Can We Expect After His Hearing?

December 7, 2017 Jordan Barab

OK, now that the dust has settled, what do we think about the performance of OSHA Assistant Secretary nominee Scott…

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