Skip to content
  • Mon. Mar 16th, 2026

Confined Space

A newsletter of workplace safety and labor issues

  • Books, Resources and Publications
  • Organizations
  • Other Newsletters, Journals and Blogs
  • Political Action
  • About Confined Space
  • Contact
Occupational Disease Workplace Illness

Small but Mighty: How One Organization Has Championed Worker Health for Nearly Four Decades

March 13, 2026 Kathleen Rest
Department of Labor Enforcement OSHA

New DOL Enforcement Memo Details Where Not to Enforce

March 11, 2026 Jordan Barab
Trench Collapse Weekly Toll

Clocking in for The Final Shift: The Weekly Toll

March 10, 2026 Aina Atienza
Mine Safety MSHA This Day In History

50 Years Ago Today: The Scotia Mine Disaster

March 9, 2026 Jordan Barab
Department of Labor

The DeMise of DeRemer?

March 4, 2026 Jordan Barab
  • Latest
Small but Mighty: How One Organization Has Championed Worker Health for Nearly Four Decades
Occupational Disease Workplace Illness
Small but Mighty: How One Organization Has Championed Worker Health for Nearly Four Decades
New DOL Enforcement Memo Details Where <i>Not</i> to Enforce
Department of Labor Enforcement OSHA
New DOL Enforcement Memo Details Where Not to Enforce
Clocking in for The Final Shift: The Weekly Toll
Trench Collapse Weekly Toll
Clocking in for The Final Shift: The Weekly Toll
50 Years Ago Today: The Scotia Mine Disaster
Mine Safety MSHA This Day In History
50 Years Ago Today: The Scotia Mine Disaster
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
Small but Mighty: How One Organization Has Championed Worker Health for Nearly Four Decades
Occupational Disease Workplace Illness
Small but Mighty: How One Organization Has Championed Worker Health for Nearly Four Decades
New DOL Enforcement Memo Details Where <i>Not</i> to Enforce
Department of Labor Enforcement OSHA
New DOL Enforcement Memo Details Where Not to Enforce
Clocking in for The Final Shift: The Weekly Toll
Trench Collapse Weekly Toll
Clocking in for The Final Shift: The Weekly Toll
50 Years Ago Today: The Scotia Mine Disaster
Mine Safety MSHA This Day In History
50 Years Ago Today: The Scotia Mine Disaster
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…

This Day In History

The Halifax Explosion: This Day in Workplace Safety and Health

December 6, 2017 Jordan Barab

On Dec. 6, 1917 at 9:04 a.m., one hundred years ago today, the munitions ship Mont-Blanc, carrying nearly 3,000 tons…

Mine Safety Weekly Toll

Weekly Toll: The Bell Continues to Toll For American Workers

December 6, 2017 Jordan Barab

Bentleyville man dies at ArcelorMittal plant in Monessen Monessen, PA — A Bentleyville man died Sunday night at the ArcelorMittal…

Posts pagination

1 … 91 92 93 … 121
Subscribe to Confined Space

Enter your email address to subscribe to Confined Space and receive notifications of new posts by email. (NOTE: YOU WILL GET AN EMAIL ASKING YOU TO CONFIRM YOUR SUBSCRIPTION.)

Join 1,924 other subscribers
Search
Tip Jar
Feel free to drop a few bucks in the tip jar now and then. Use Paypal by clicking below. And thank you!
Archives
Categories
  • 2024 Elections
  • AFL-CIO
  • Agriculture
  • Alex Acosta
  • Amazon
  • Ammonium Nitrate
  • Asbestos
  • Automobile Industry
  • Avian Influenza (H5N1)
  • Beryllium
  • Blame the Worker
  • Blog
  • Books
  • Brett Kavanaugh
  • Budget
  • Bureau of Labor Statistics
  • Centers for Disease Control
  • Chemical Plant Safety
  • Chemical Safety Board
  • Chemical Standards
  • Child Labor
  • Climate Change
  • Combustible Dust
  • Confined Space
  • Congress
  • Congressional Review Act
  • Construction
  • COSH Groups
  • COVID-19
  • Criminal Prosecution
  • David Michaels
  • Deconstructing the Administrative State
  • Department of Labor
  • Dispatches (Short Stuff)
  • Do It Yourself
  • DOGE
  • Election 2024
  • Enforcement
  • Environmental Protection Agency
  • Ergonomics
  • Fall Prevention
  • Fatalities
  • Fires and Firefighting
  • Fissured Workplace
  • Freak Accident
  • Gig Workers
  • Government Accountability Office
  • Harwood (See Susan Harwood Worker Training Program)
  • Health Care Workers
  • Heat
  • House of Representatives
  • Humor
  • Hurricane Harvey
  • Immigrants
  • In Memoriam
  • Infectious Diseases
  • International
  • Job Postings
  • Jordan Barab
  • Journalism
  • Labor
  • Labor Unions
  • Lac Megantic
  • Lockout Tagout
  • Meatpacking & Poultry Workers
  • Mine Safety
  • MSHA
  • NIOSH
  • Occupational Disease
  • Office of Management and Budget
  • OIRA
  • OSHA
  • Penalties
  • Photo of the Week
  • Poultry Industry
  • Press Releases
  • Process Safety Management
  • Public Employees
  • Railroads
  • Recordkeeping
  • Regulations and Standards
  • Regulatory Process
  • Risk Management Program (EPA)
  • Senate
  • Short Stuff
  • Silica
  • State Plan States
  • Supreme Court
  • Susan Harwood Worker Training Program
  • Temporary Employees
  • This Day In History
  • Trench Collapse
  • Trump
  • Uncategorized
  • Volks Rule
  • Voluntary Protection Programs (VPP)
  • Wage and Hour Division
  • Walkaround
  • Weekly Toll
  • West Fertilizer Explosion
  • Whistleblowers
  • Workers Compensation
  • Workers Memorial Day
  • Workplace Catastrophes
  • Workplace Illness
  • Workplace safety and health programs
  • Workplace Violence
  • Year in Review
States
Alabama Alaska Arizona Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut Florida Georgia Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York North Carolina North Dakota Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Virginia Washington West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming
Meta
  • Log in
  • Entries feed
  • Comments feed
  • WordPress.org
Top Posts & Pages
  • New DOL Enforcement Memo Details Where Not to Enforce
  • Small but Mighty: How One Organization Has Championed Worker Health for Nearly Four Decades
  • Weekly Toll: How Workers Died
  • Six Killed in Confined Space Catastrophe
  • Workplace Fatalities: The Weekly Toll
  • "Anything goes" Death at Goodyear -- in the Workplace and on the Road
  • The West Fertilizer Explosion Ten Years Later
  • Clocking in for The Final Shift: The Weekly Toll
  • Reported Workplace Injuries and Illnesses decline in Last Biden Year
  • URGENT: Senate Poised to Take Away Worker Safety Protections

Confined Space

A newsletter of workplace safety and labor issues

Proudly powered by WordPress | Theme: Newsup by Themeansar.

  • Home
  • Books, Resources and Publications
  • Organizations
  • Other Newsletters, Journals and Blogs
  • Political Action
  • About Confined Space
  • Contact