Weeky Toll: More Workplace Carnage Starting the New Year.
Through January 2. Running a bit behind due to vacation. But no vacation from deadly workplace tragedies: Three workers killed…
Weekly Toll: Missing from the Thanksgiving Table
How workers died last week. Falls, shootings, forklifts, snow removal, hit-and-runs ….. On average, almost 100 workers are killed every…
Reefer Madness: Death of Cannabis Worker
Last January 4, 2022, 27-year-old Lorna McMurrey went into cardiac arrest at Trulieve’s cannabis cultivation facility in Holyoke, Massachusetts and…
Weekly Toll: Crushed, Buried, Suffocated on the Job
Drowned in a trench, suffocated in a corn silo, crushed under a stone, Trench Collapse, grain silo suffocation, falls, burned…
Weekly Toll: Killed on the Job
Yet another Trench Collapse. Workers dead in industrial incidents, rail crashes, shootings, electrocutions and vehicle incidents. On average, almost 100…
Weekly Toll: Killed on the Job
How workers died last week: falls, shootings, vehicles, tree work, electrocution, dog attack. On average, almost 100 workers are killed…
Weekly Toll: Death on the Job
I’ve been away, so we’ll be catching up this week and next. This time we have another trench collapse, a…
Epidemic of Trench Deaths in First Half of 2022
As we pass the midpoint of 2022, we may be headed to a new record for trench collapse fatalities. Dare…
Weekly Toll: Killed at Work
Three trench deaths last week (on top of three the week before), a 16-year old killed driving heavy equipment, mining…
Weekly Toll: Killed on the Job
Last week: Three killed in trench collapses, Ohio public employee (with no OSHA coverage) dies in wastewater treatment plant, firefighter…