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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
Trench Collapse Weekly Toll

Weekly Toll: Killed on the Job

June 18, 2025 Dylan Chamberlin
Budget Mine Safety NIOSH Occupational Disease

NIOSH Budget: The Horror Show

June 12, 2025 Jordan Barab
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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
Who Cares For Injured and Sick Workers?
Occupational Disease Workplace Illness
Who Cares For Injured and Sick Workers?
Weekly Toll: Killed on the Job
Trench Collapse Weekly Toll
Weekly Toll: Killed on the Job
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: 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
Who Cares For Injured and Sick Workers?
Occupational Disease Workplace Illness
Who Cares For Injured and Sick Workers?
Weekly Toll: Killed on the Job
Trench Collapse Weekly Toll
Weekly Toll: Killed on the Job
Enforcement OSHA Workplace Violence

OSHA Issues Largest Workplace Violence Citation in its History. Good indication for the Future?

August 22, 2017 Jordan Barab

Although I am frequently critical of OSHA under the Trump administration, never let it be said that I have failed…

Weekly Toll

Weekly Toll (Actually 3 Weeks): Death in the American Workplace

August 22, 2017 Jordan Barab

Summer vacations, eclipses, white power marches and murders –but one constant: people keep dying in American workplaces One killed in…

Blame the Worker OSHA Trench Collapse

Trench Death: ‘Mom, I got in a ditch today, and it started caving in on me and I got out’

August 21, 2017 Jordan Barab

There is so much sad and infuriating about this story that it’s hard to know where to begin. How about…

Uncategorized

Photo of the Week: Farragut Square

August 18, 2017 Jordan Barab
Fatalities OSHA

5 Killed in Tampa: Playing With Fire And Workers’ Lives

August 18, 2017 Jordan Barab

The Tampa Bay Times has published a fascinating and tragic investigative piece on the June 29, 2017 incident where five…

OSHA Recordkeeping

OSHA Shuts Down Recordkeeping Webpage Due To Alleged Security Breach

August 17, 2017 Jordan Barab

OSHA announced yesterday that it was temporarily shutting down a portal for employers to report injuries and illnesses while the…

Immigrants Workers Compensation

Solution to Workplace Injury of Immigrant Workers: Deportation

August 17, 2017 Jordan Barab

Immigrant workers do some of the most dangerous jobs in this country, and get hurt and killed most often. Now…

OSHA

Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Battle for Workplace Safety: Short Stuff

August 16, 2017 Jordan Barab

Problem with the job? Go kill yourselves: You’ve all heard the phrase “Your job of your life,” but Richland County,…

Enforcement OSHA Penalties

Serial Violator Blames OSHA Penalties for Layoffs

August 10, 2017 Jordan Barab

Aluminum Shapes, a New Jersey company, has the rare distinction of being the subject of one of only ten enforcement-related…

Uncategorized

Blogging Forcast: Light

August 7, 2017 Jordan Barab

The overlords of Confined Space World Headquarters have given the entire staff a week and a half off. (That's just…

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