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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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OSHA Heat Hearing: The Battle Commences
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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
Ammonium Nitrate Chemical Plant Safety Government Accountability Office Process Safety Management Workplace Violence

GAO to OSHA: What’s Up With Workplace Violence and Ammonium Nitrate?

August 4, 2017 Jordan Barab

The Republican Congress may not be fulfilling it responsibility to provide oversight over a Republican-controlled OSHA, but the Government Accountability…

Budget Do It Yourself Fall Prevention OSHA

WTF?! Friday Fall Protection Edition

August 4, 2017 Jordan Barab

There’s an old saying, I’m pretty sure from Confucius: “Take heed. It is always a bad idea to do an…

David Michaels Enforcement Press Releases

Press Releases Reduce Workplace Injuries. So Why Has OSHA Stopped Issuing Them?

August 3, 2017 Jordan Barab

I’ve been writing (over and over again) about OSHA’s failure to issue more than a tiny number of enforcement-related press…

Mine Safety MSHA

Trump Heads to Coal Country to Give Best Speech Ever Made

August 3, 2017 Jordan Barab

President Trump is heading to West Virginia coal country tonight to give the best-speech-ever-made to the largest crowd the state…

Environmental Protection Agency Jordan Barab West Fertilizer Explosion

Doubt Grows Concerning ATF Conclusion that West Fertilizer Fire was Deliberately Set

August 2, 2017 Jordan Barab

Sometimes blogging is like shouting into the wind. All you hear are echos of your own voice. Then silence. But,…

Alex Acosta Budget Environmental Protection Agency International Mine Safety OSHA Short Stuff West Fertilizer Explosion Whistleblowers

Dispatches From the Front Lines Of Worker Safety and Health: Short Stuff

August 2, 2017 Jordan Barab

EPA Suffers From Shortage of Common Sense: Attorneys General from 11 states — New York, Illinois, Iowa, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts,…

Fatalities OSHA Weekly Toll

Weekly Toll: And Congress Wants to Cut OSHA’s Enforcement Budget?

July 31, 2017 Jordan Barab

Worker killed after collision with SUV on Fargo airport runway FARGO, ND — A contract worker painting stripes on the…

Enforcement Press Releases

OSHA Enforcement: Reporters Report While OSHA Mostly Hides

July 31, 2017 Jordan Barab

Here we are, at the end of July, and OSHA continues to hide the fact that it actually enforces the…

Confined Space Enforcement OSHA

No Excuse: Confined Spaces Continue to Kill

July 28, 2017 Jordan Barab

I wrote a few weeks ago about the death of three workers in a confined space incident where the initial…

Enforcement OSHA

Fraser Shipyards: Playing “Catch-up” Kills Workers

July 27, 2017 Jordan Barab

No matter how terrible an incident, no matter how many workers are injured or killed, there are a few constants…

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