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Heat Trench Collapse Weekly Toll

Failing to Protect America’s Workers: The Weekly Toll

September 21, 2026 Aina Atienza
Fires and Firefighting Weekly Toll

Those Who Didn’t Come Home: The Weekly Toll

September 15, 2026 Aina Atienza
Agriculture Chemical Safety Board Dispatches (Short Stuff) Heat Journalism Mine Safety MSHA NIOSH Workers Compensation

Dispatches From the Front Lines of Occupational Safety and Health

September 11, 2026 Jordan Barab
This Day In History

Thank You to Those Who Run Toward the Danger

September 11, 2026 Kathleen Rest
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The Quiet Heroes of the Back-to-School Season

September 9, 2026 Kathleen Rest
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Those Who Didn’t Come Home: The Weekly Toll
Dispatches From the Front Lines of Occupational Safety and Health
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Dispatches From the Front Lines of Occupational Safety and Health
Thank You to Those Who Run Toward the Danger
This Day In History
Thank You to Those Who Run Toward the Danger
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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
Failing to Protect America’s Workers: The Weekly Toll
Heat Trench Collapse Weekly Toll
Failing to Protect America’s Workers: The Weekly Toll
Those Who Didn’t Come Home: The Weekly Toll
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Those Who Didn’t Come Home: The Weekly Toll
Dispatches From the Front Lines of Occupational Safety and Health
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Dispatches From the Front Lines of Occupational Safety and Health
Thank You to Those Who Run Toward the Danger
This Day In History
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OSHA Senate

Mugno Voted Out Of Committee

December 14, 2017 Jordan Barab

On a straight party line vote, the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions committee voted late yesterday to approve Scott…

COSH Groups MSHA Short Stuff Temporary Employees Whistleblowers

Dispatches From the Front Lines of the Battle for Workplace Safety and Health: Short Stuff

December 13, 2017 Jordan Barab

COSHCON17 — The Young and the Active — : The National Council for Occupational Safety and Health, the umbrella group…

Books OSHA

Confined Space Holiday Book Shopping List. Shop here!!

December 12, 2017 Jordan Barab

Jingle Bells, Something Smells, Chemicals in the Air Oh what fun, it is to work, with respirators you must wear……

Weekly Toll

Weekly Toll: Falls, Trench Collapses, Shootings, Traffic Incidents. All In a Day’s Work

December 12, 2017 Jordan Barab

1 killed, 1 injured in scaffolding collapse at Md. elementary school construction site FREDERICK COUNTY, Md. (WJLA) — A subcontractor…

Enforcement Ergonomics Government Accountability Office NIOSH OSHA Poultry Industry

OSHA Rejects GAO Poultry Recommendations: Sees No Problem With Workers’ Restroom Access

December 12, 2017 Jordan Barab

In a surprising and disappointing apparent rollback of OSHA’s enforcement policy related to poultry inspections, Acting Assistant Secretary Loren Sweatt…

Chemical Standards Environmental Protection Agency Fatalities OSHA

Methylene Chloride Deaths: “All Preventable”

December 8, 2017 Jordan Barab

Methylene chloride kills. We wrote about 21-year old Kevin Hartley last June. He died last April 29 — Workers Memorial…

OSHA Senate

Scott Mugno: What Can We Expect After His Hearing?

December 7, 2017 Jordan Barab

OK, now that the dust has settled, what do we think about the performance of OSHA Assistant Secretary nominee Scott…

This Day In History

The Halifax Explosion: This Day in Workplace Safety and Health

December 6, 2017 Jordan Barab

On Dec. 6, 1917 at 9:04 a.m., one hundred years ago today, the munitions ship Mont-Blanc, carrying nearly 3,000 tons…

Mine Safety Weekly Toll

Weekly Toll: The Bell Continues to Toll For American Workers

December 6, 2017 Jordan Barab

Bentleyville man dies at ArcelorMittal plant in Monessen Monessen, PA — A Bentleyville man died Sunday night at the ArcelorMittal…

OSHA Senate

Mugno Confirmation Hearing: Live Tweeting

December 5, 2017 Jordan Barab

I will be live-tweeting the Mugno confirmation hearing on Twitter (@jbarab) that has just begun. If you don’t follow me…

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