Weekly Toll: Not Coming Home
This week: Explosions, falls, shootings, electrocution, vehicle-related incidents, drowning. Never short of different ways for workers to die on the…
Supreme Court Allows OSHA Standard to Go Into Effect (as of this moment…)
I’m holding my breath and afraid to jinx it, but as of this moment, noon on Monday, we have not…
Weekly Toll: Tornadoes, Falls, Machines, Vehicles, Shootings — Dying in American Workplaces
On average, 14 workers are killed every day in the United States due to traumatic injuries suffered at work. That’s…
Weekly Toll: Workers Lose Their Lives as Holidays Approach
This week: Confined space, machinery deaths, shootings, stabbings, forklifts, electrocution, vehicle incidents. On average, 14 workers are killed every day…
Weekly Toll: Another Empty Chair at the Thanksgiving Table
Trench collapses, falls, shootings, building and bridge collapses, vehicle incidents. On average, 14 workers are killed every day in the…
Weekly Toll: Workers Who Will Never See the Fall Leaves
On average, 14 workers are killed every day in the United States due to traumatic injuries suffered at work. That’s…
Public Employees: Still Second-Class Citizens After 51 Years
When I walked into my new job at AFSCME on November 1, 1982, I was immediately given the workplace safety…
Weekly Toll: Human Statistics Who Won’t Be Coming Home
A list of a few of the workers in this country who died on the job last week.
Weekly Toll: Three Weeks of Death on the Job
Excuse the length of this depressing exercise, but I’ve been away for a couple of weeks and unlike me, workplace…
Weekly Toll: Death In the Workplace
U.P. woman dies in workplace accident in Mackinac County MACKINAC COUNTY, Mich., (WPBN/WGTU) — An Upper Peninsula woman is dead…