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April 1 Special Report: A Nation Without Workers

April 1, 2026 Kathleen Rest
Public Employees Weekly Toll

No Accidents, Only Oversights: The Weekly Toll

March 31, 2026 Aina Atienza
Enforcement OSHA Voluntary Protection Programs (VPP)

OSHA CARES: About the Boss

March 27, 2026 Jordan Barab
Fires and Firefighting Public Employees Weekly Toll

Death in the Workplace: The Weekly Toll

March 24, 2026 Aina Atienza
Congress David Michaels Silica

Republicans Try to Impose Death Sentence on Silica Countertop Workers

March 23, 2026 Jordan Barab
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Labor
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OSHA CARES: About the Boss
Enforcement OSHA Voluntary Protection Programs (VPP)
OSHA CARES: About the Boss
Death in the Workplace: The Weekly Toll
Fires and Firefighting Public Employees Weekly Toll
Death in the Workplace: The Weekly Toll
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
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OSHA Pulls Protections As Healthcare Worker Deaths Rise
April 1 Special Report: A Nation Without Workers
Labor
April 1 Special Report: A Nation Without Workers
No Accidents, Only Oversights: The Weekly Toll
Public Employees Weekly Toll
No Accidents, Only Oversights: The Weekly Toll
OSHA CARES: About the Boss
Enforcement OSHA Voluntary Protection Programs (VPP)
OSHA CARES: About the Boss
Death in the Workplace: The Weekly Toll
Fires and Firefighting Public Employees Weekly Toll
Death in the Workplace: The Weekly Toll
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Short Stuff: Short, But Interesting

November 21, 2017 Jordan Barab

There’s always so much to talk about. Luckily, you have me to distill it for you. Zatezalo to MSHA: The…

Weekly Toll

Weekly Toll: The Last Two Weeks of Carnage in the American Workplace

November 21, 2017 Jordan Barab

These reports always contain an surprising and upsetting diversity of ways to die in the workplace. The last couple of…

Alex Acosta Silica Voluntary Protection Programs (VPP) Workplace Violence

Acosta Testifies and He’s Not Terrible

November 20, 2017 Jordan Barab

Secretary of Labor Alex Acosta testified last Thursday at a hearing before the full House Education and Workforce Committee, and…

Poultry Industry

Murray, DeLauro Call on USDA to Reject Chicken Council’s Petition to Increase Line Speeds

November 17, 2017 Jordan Barab

Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor & Pensions and Rosa DeLauro (D-CT),…

Photo of the Week

Photo of the Week: National Airport

November 17, 2017 Jordan Barab
Chemical Plant Safety Chemical Safety Board Hurricane Harvey

Arkema Update: Chemical Plants and Climate Change

November 16, 2017 Jordan Barab

More information is coming out about the chemical releases at the Arkema chemical plant in Crosby Texas following last summer’s…

Chemical Safety Board

CSB Withdraws Deepwater Horizon Worker Participation Recommendations

November 15, 2017 Jordan Barab

In a 3-1 vote, the Chemical Safety Board voted yesterday to withdraw recommendations calling for the Bureau of Safety and…

This Day In History Workplace Catastrophes

The lake, it is said, never gives up her dead…

November 10, 2017 Jordan Barab

In a musty old hall in Detroit they prayed In the Maritime Sailors’ Cathedral The church bell chimed, ’til it…

OSHA

More on OSHA Nominee Scott Mugno

November 7, 2017 Jordan Barab

Reviews continue to pour in about President Trump’s long delayed nomination of Scott Mugno to be the next Assistant Secretary…

Weekly Toll

The Weekly Toll: The Deaths Just Keep On Happening

November 6, 2017 Jordan Barab

Rockford police officer killed after traffic stop ROCKFORD, Ill. — A Rockford police officer was killed in the line of…

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