Weekly Toll: Killed on the Job
How Workers Died over the past few weeks: Crushed, electrocuted, shot, suicide, explosion, vehicle incidents. On average, over 100 workers…
Weekly Toll: Killed on the Job
How Workers Died over the past few weeks: Heat, drowning, workplace violence, electrocution, shootings, falls, explosions, building collapse, vehicle incidents.…
Weekly Toll: Killed on the Job
I’ve been traveling for a few weeks, so this and next week’s list will be a bit longer than usual.…
Workplace Heat Protections: Forward for the Feds; Progress and Coup in California
As the nation plunges into the summer’s first major heat wave, protections for workers seem have taken a couple of…
Weekly Toll: How Workers Die
I’ve been traveling for a few weeks, so this and next week’s list will be a bit longer than usual.…
Weekly Toll: Killed at Work
Last week workers were killed in a trench collapse, electrocution, vehicle accidents, falls, shootings, forklift incident and on a farm.…
Weekly Toll: Killed on the Job
Last week workers were killed in explosions, trench collapse, electrocution, vehicle accidents, shootings, crushed by machinery and stomped by a…
Weekly Toll: Don’t Forget Us
Last Thursday, the Department of Labor held a Workers Memorial Day ceremony in Washington DC. OSHA’s family liaison, Tonya Ford…
Weekly Toll: Death on the Job
Next Sunday is Workers Memorial Day when, in the words of Mother Jones, we take a minute to “mourn the…
Weekly Toll: Death on the Job
Two highway construction workers, a flagger and a tow truck driver killed, three tree cutting deaths, teen killed on hog…