“Perfect Storm” of Sub-Standard Company Practices Led to Disaster: Lac Mégantic Trial Goes To Jury
After a 3 month-long trial, jurors are finally deliberating on the fate of three rail workers accused of criminal neglegence…
The Lives They Lived. And The Gifts They’ve Left Us With
Jim Melius. Leslie Nickels. Jack Sheehan. Mike McGraw. Paul Nyden. As a new year starts, everyone from the New York…
Workers Are Dying Because OSHA Can’t Do Its Job: Barab on MSNBC This Morning
 (View here is the above video isn’t loading. Not too bad. And they even pronounced my name correctly. If…
Weekly Toll: Death in the American Workplace
Worker dies after northeastern Indiana industrial accident FORT WAYNE, Ind. (AP) — Authorities say a worker has died in an…
Trump to Speak to Farm Bureau. Will He Discuss Farm Worker Safety and Health?
Can’t wait to be back in the amazing state of Tennessee to address the 99th American @FarmBureau Federation’s Annual Convention…
Trump Slashes OSHA Staffing, Endangering Workers
When the same party controls the White House and both houses of Congress, there is always a danger that Congress…
For the Oil Industry: A Perfect Storm….of Favors
The holiday season just keeps on giving for the oil and gas industry: December 25, 2017: Wall St. Journal reports…
Dispatches From The Front Lines of the War For Safer Workplaces: Short Stuff
Nominee Ping Pong: As 2017 expired, so did Scott Mugno’s nomination for Assistant Secretary to head OSHA, along the nominations…
Boiled to Death, Buried Alive and Leg Ripped Off: The Stories Behind the Statistics
One of the fathers of occupational health, Irving Selikoff, once said that “statistics are people with the tears wiped away.”…
Weekly Toll: Last Workers to Die in 2017. Let’s hope 2018 is better
Bad couple of weeks for workers in Kansas and firefighters across the country. Also two trench deaths and a food…