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Carnage in Highway Work Zones
No Quiet on the Workers’ Front: The Weekly Toll
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Workplace Tragedies: The Weekly Toll
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The Lives They Lived. And The Gifts They’ve Left Us With

January 10, 2018 Jordan Barab

Jim Melius. Leslie Nickels. Jack Sheehan. Mike McGraw. Paul Nyden. As a new year starts, everyone from the New York…

Budget OSHA

Workers Are Dying Because OSHA Can’t Do Its Job: Barab on MSNBC This Morning

January 9, 2018 Jordan Barab

 (View here is the above video isn’t loading. Not too bad. And they even pronounced my name correctly. If…

Weekly Toll

Weekly Toll: Death in the American Workplace

January 8, 2018 Jordan Barab

Worker dies after northeastern Indiana industrial accident FORT WAYNE, Ind. (AP) — Authorities say a worker has died in an…

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Trump to Speak to Farm Bureau. Will He Discuss Farm Worker Safety and Health?

January 8, 2018 Jordan Barab

Can’t wait to be back in the amazing state of Tennessee to address the 99th American @FarmBureau Federation’s Annual Convention…

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Trump Slashes OSHA Staffing, Endangering Workers

January 8, 2018 Jordan Barab

When the same party controls the White House and both houses of Congress, there is always a danger that Congress…

Deconstructing the Administrative State Regulations and Standards

For the Oil Industry: A Perfect Storm….of Favors

January 6, 2018 Jordan Barab

The holiday season just keeps on giving for the oil and gas industry: December 25, 2017: Wall St. Journal reports…

Short Stuff

Dispatches From The Front Lines of the War For Safer Workplaces: Short Stuff

January 5, 2018 Jordan Barab

Nominee Ping Pong: As 2017 expired, so did Scott Mugno’s nomination for Assistant Secretary to head OSHA, along the nominations…

Budget Criminal Prosecution Fatalities Immigrants OSHA Trench Collapse

Boiled to Death, Buried Alive and Leg Ripped Off: The Stories Behind the Statistics

January 3, 2018 Jordan Barab

One of the fathers of occupational health, Irving Selikoff, once said that “statistics are people with the tears wiped away.”…

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Weekly Toll: Last Workers to Die in 2017. Let’s hope 2018 is better

January 3, 2018 Jordan Barab

Bad couple of weeks for workers in Kansas and firefighters across the country. Also two trench deaths and a food…

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NY Times Story on Regulatory Policy Again Forgets Workers, Communities

January 2, 2018 Jordan Barab

The New York Times, in another rather questionable Front Page article, The Trump Effect: Business, Anticipating Less Regulation, Loosens Purse…

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