Weekly Toll
Workers crushed in yet another trench collapse, caught in machinery, crushed under falling equipment, killed in explosions, falling from heights,…
Weekly Toll: Losses In The Holiday Season
How workers died last week. Electrocutions, tow trucks, railroad, falls, coal pile collapse, traffic, shootings….. On average, almost 100 workers…
Weekly Toll: How Workers Die in the United States
How workers died last week. Ground up in a wood chipper, killed on the tracks, crushed by garage door, traffic…
Weekly Toll: Killed on the Job
I was on vacation last week, so this is a longer list than usual. Another trench collapse, falls, shootings, traffic…
Weekly Toll: Workplace Death Takes No Summer Vacation
On average, almost 100 workers are killed every week in the United States due to traumatic injuries suffered at work.…
Weekly Toll: The Deaths Continue
On average, almost 100 workers are killed every week in the United States due to traumatic injuries suffered at work.…
Weekly Toll: Killed on the Job
On average, almost 100 workers are killed every week in the United States due to traumatic injuries suffered at work.…
Weekly Toll: New Year Rings In With Teen-age Workers Killed
This week: A 16 year-old, an 18 year-old and a 19 year-old worker were killed on the job last week.…
Another Social Worker Killed: When will it end?
Deidre Silas, 36, an investigator for the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS), was stabbed to death Tuesday…
Today in Workplace Safety: Imperial Sugar and Kleen Energy
February 7 is the sad anniversary of two of this country's worst and most recent industrial disasters: the 2008 explosion…