Weekly Toll: Summer Ends, Workplace Deaths Continue
Man run over while overhauling bus at Chicago Heights junkyard Chicago, IL — A man died after being run over…
Weekly Toll: Workers Killed on the Job Last Week
Family, friends mourning death of construction worker killed in Twin Peaks Tunnel SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. (KTVU) – Family and friends…
Weekly Toll: Last Week’s Workers Reporting for the Final Shift
Death Toll in California’s Carr Wildfire Raises to 7 as Utility Worker Dies CLEARLAKE, Calif. — A utility worker was…
Weekly Toll: Workers Killed on the Job Over the Past Two Weeks
2 firefighters killed as blaze rages in northern California REDDING, CALIF. —The National Park Service reports a second firefighter has…
Weekly Toll: Workers Not Coming Home From Work Last Week
1 worker killed, 1 hurt after Dumpster falls at NC Campbell’s Soup plant, reports say MAXTON, N.C. (WNCN) – One…
Kavanaugh: Threat to Workers and to OSHA
While most of the discussion of President Trump’s nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court focuses on the possibility…
Weekly Toll: Workplace Deaths Over the Last Two Weeks
I took a week off compiling this list. No change in the deadly work that American workers do, except that…
Weekly Toll: The Last Shift
Genesee Power Station employee dies in workplace accident FLINT, MI – An employee died in an industrial accident at the…
Weekly Toll: Last Week’s Workplace Fatalities
Another week, and another list of preventable deaths. Two double fatalities this week: Two workers killed in a power plant…
Weekly Toll: Last Week’s Workplace Deaths
Man dies in pressroom accident at Pennsylvania newspaper ALLENTOWN, Pa. — A contractor (Ruben Ocasio-Fernandez, 32)became trapped underneath a piece…