California Moves to Ban Silica Countertops
The California Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board voted unanimously last week to fast-track an emergency rule that would ban…
Workers Killed on the Job: The Weekly Toll
How workers died last week: trench collapse, falling rock, crushed to death, lawn mower, septic tank suffocation, electrocution, mine incidents,…
Missing From the Commencement Ceremony: The Weekly Toll
How workers died last week: Meatpacking, falls, shootings, vehicular incidents, explosion, industrial incidents, electrocution, tree-trimming and medical plane crash. On…
Clocking in for the Final Shift: The Weekly Toll
How workers died last week: Four security guards killed, grain bin suffocation, falls, shootings, machinery, stabbings, vehicular incidents, industrial incidents.…
Workplace Fatalities: The Weekly Toll
How workers died last week: Four killed falling from roofs, crushed to death, machinery, overturned vehicles, entrapment incident, medical episode,…
The Negligence Just Keeps Piling Up: The Bi-Weekly Toll
How workers died last week: electrocutions, tunnel collapse, explosion, falling, rollovers, brush fire, grain-bin, crushed by construction lift, vehicular collisions,…
The sad decline in Cal/OSHA’s worker protection
Of the 21 states (and Puerto Rico) who run their own OSHA programs, CalOSHA is often held up as the…
No Rest for the Workers: The Weekly Toll
How workers died last week: trench collapse, parking lot collapse, crushed by a forklift, tanker truck explosion, pinned under pipes,…
Fooling Around with Workers’ Lives: The Weekly Toll
How workers died last week: trench collapse, electrocutions, coal mining, falls, tree care, crane collapse, vehicular collisions, stabbed, ruptured hot…
Clocking in for The Final Shift: The Weekly Toll
How workers died last week: Coal mine death, electrocutions, CO2 fire suppression system discharge, steamroller, trench collapse, vehicular collisions, shootings,…