Weekly Toll: The Tragedies Never End
Construction Worker Dies After Falling From Brooklyn Building: NYPD New York, NY — A construction worker fell from a building…
Weekly Toll: Memorial Day Edition
Owner killed in explosion PHILIPPI, WV — After further investigation of an explosion in Barbour County on Wednesday, the Occupational…
Weekly Toll: Not Coming Home
The latest list of workers not coming home at the end of the shift Jimmy Ray Baker, 45 of Houston…
OSHA Press Releases Hide Behind “Cloak of Invisibility”
After almost four months, the Trump Administration’s OSHA has issued only two enforcement-related press releases, despite having issued well over…
Weekly Toll: Death in the Workplace
Death in the workplace does not stop for Workers Memorial Day Cab driver shot and killed while on duty NEW…
Weekly Toll: Death In the American Workplace
Another depressing installment of the Weekly Toll. Note that there are 39 fatalities listed here, going back, more or less,…
Short Stuff
Home Sweet Home: Congress is home for two weeks. Hopefully all of you are planning on talking to your Senators…
Alabama Congressman Blind to Constituents’ Workplace Hazards
“President Donald Trump repealed an Obama-era health and safety regulation this week that could leave Alabama workers more at risk…
OSHA Resumes Preventive Auto Parts Inspections
OSHA today officially renewed its Regional Emphasis Program (REP) targeting auto parts establishments in Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi. Following the…
OSHA Stops Preventive Inspections in Southern Auto Parts Industry
In the wake of yesterday’s devastating article in Bloomberg Business Week about the carnage in foreign-owned auto parts facilities in…