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…
A newsletter of workplace safety and labor issues
I’ve been away, so we’ll be catching up this week and next. This time we have another trench collapse, a…
On average, almost 100 workers are killed every week in the United States due to traumatic injuries suffered at work.…
Trench collapse, falling trees, traffic incidents, building collapses, shootings, falls. On average, almost 100 workers are killed every day in…
When I walked into my new job at AFSCME on November 1, 1982, I was immediately given the workplace safety…
Supermarket Employee Killed in Fall from Ladder Pasco, WA — A supermarket employee, Duoc Tran, fell to his death at…
A 59-year-old employee at Allen Harim poultry plant in Harbeson, Delaware was killed last week from a serious head trauma…
Boom truck hits power lines in Flagler, electrocuting 2 workers PALM COAST, Fla. – Two construction workers were electrocuted Monday…
Family, friends mourning death of construction worker killed in Twin Peaks Tunnel SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. (KTVU) – Family and friends…
Parkland School Teachers Killed in Shooting Parkland, FL — Three school employees were among the 17 persons killed in the…
In the unlikely event that anyone out there was thinking that workplace fatalities were fading into the past, check out…