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Mine Safety MSHA This Day In History

Farmington Mine Disaster and the Blood of Coal Miners

November 20, 2025 Jordan Barab
Enforcement Journalism

Nevada Gov Drops OSHA Penalties for Musk

November 19, 2025 Jordan Barab
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Dead on the Job: The Weekly Toll

November 10, 2025 Jordan Barab
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October 18, 2017 Jordan Barab

Earlier this week, I wrote a piece critical of an article about worker fatigue that seemed to put the blame…

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October 17, 2017 Jordan Barab

Sometimes you read stupid stuff and you just want to go back to bed and sleep, sleep, sleep. And speaking…

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West Texas Explosion: Four Years Later

October 13, 2017 Jordan Barab

Dan Zak of the Washington Post has written a long feature article on the impact and aftermath of the West…

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Lac-Mégantic Trial Moves Forward

October 12, 2017 Jordan Barab

The trial of three rail employees blamed for the deaths of 47 people when a train carrying 73 cars of…

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October 12, 2017 Jordan Barab

Just got back from a couple of weeks away and thought I’d spend some time catching up on what’s been…

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October 2, 2017 Jordan Barab

Maybe it’s because I’m a creature of Washington, but it occurs to me that if 60 people were killed as…

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An unmanned, half-mile long train “bomb train” carrying tank-cars full of highly explosive crude oil barrels toward a city where…

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September 27, 2017 Jordan Barab

Tim Craig has written a very good, if disturbing article in the Washington Post about hazardous conditions for dairy farm…

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September 26, 2017 Jordan Barab

One of the free services we provide here at Confined Space world headquarter is helping journalists write better articles. Here…

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