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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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Who Cares For Injured and Sick Workers?
Occupational Disease Workplace Illness
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Weekly Toll: Killed on the Job
Kill OSHA: Then Shoot, Stab, Suffocate and Drown the Agency
Deconstructing the Administrative State OSHA
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Supreme Court’s Disastrous OSHA Decision: What Others Are Saying
COVID-19 Supreme Court
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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
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Weekly Toll: Killed on the Job
Alex Acosta Budget Susan Harwood Worker Training Program

Acosta’s Harwood Grant Distortions

June 8, 2017 Jordan Barab

We will be discussing the President’s proposed FY18 Budget Proposal and its effect on worker safety many times over the…

Alex Acosta Budget

Acosta Accosted

June 7, 2017 Jordan Barab

By Scott Schneider Thanks to Scott Schneider for filling us in on Secretary of Labor Alexander Acosta’s hearing this morning…

Alex Acosta Budget House of Representatives

Secretary Acosta Testifies Before House Approps Committee Tomorrow

June 6, 2017 Jordan Barab

Secretary of Labor Acosta testifies tomorrow (Wednesday) at 10:00 AM about the President’s FY 2018 DOL budget proposal. I won’t…

Automobile Industry Immigrants OSHA Recordkeeping Short Stuff

Some Bad News (about NY Dairy Workers), But Also Good News: Read All About It in Short Stuff

June 6, 2017 Jordan Barab

Milking the Workers? Farm worker advocates have published a survey of mostly undocumented Hispanic workers that describes discrimination and workplace…

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Trump Administration Continues to Attack Worker Protections

June 6, 2017 Jordan Barab

The New York Times takes another look at Obama administration worker protections that are being “revisited” in the early months…

Weekly Toll

Weekly Toll: Death on the Job

June 5, 2017 Jordan Barab

Milford Woman In Norwood Skyline Fall Dies MILFORD, MA — A worker who fell through a skyline on Broadway in…

Criminal Prosecution Enforcement OSHA

A Company That Was Bound to Kill Someone

June 5, 2017 Jordan Barab

Zachary Henzerling, a 20 year old ” big kid at heart,” was on his third week at work for Environmental…

Agriculture Combustible Dust Fatalities OSHA

Three Workers Killed in Corn Mill Explosion

June 5, 2017 Jordan Barab

In one of the biggest workplace disasters this year, three workers were killed in a massive explosion at the Didion…

Enforcement OSHA Workplace Violence

New Jersey Workplace Violence Case: DOL & OSHA Cave In

June 5, 2017 Jordan Barab

Which statement below represents reality? This one? NOTICE TO EMPLOYEES OF BRMC WORKPLACE VIOLENCE PREVENTION PLAN May 22,2017 Bergen Regional…

Enforcement OSHA

Death, Amputation and Interesting Times in Saipan

June 2, 2017 Jordan Barab

Not that you’d find it the homepage of its website, but OSHA issued a large press release earlier this week…

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