Weekly Toll: Workers Killed on the Job
Logging, mining, firefighting, confined space, lightning, highway construction, crushed by stone slab, vehicle incidents and shootings. On average, over 100…
A newsletter of workplace safety and labor issues
Logging, mining, firefighting, confined space, lightning, highway construction, crushed by stone slab, vehicle incidents and shootings. On average, over 100…
How Workers Died Last Week: Six public employees killed, not including four fire and police officials. Also, forklift, drowning, highway…
How workers died last week: Heat stroke, trapped in an industrial oven, tree care, silo collapse, overturned heavy equipment, electrocutions,…
How workers died over the past couple of weeks (Part 1): Forklift, skid steer and lawn mower incidents, fall, tornado,…
On average, over 100 workers are killed every week in the United States due to traumatic injuries suffered at work.…
Next Sunday is Workers Memorial Day when, in the words of Mother Jones, we take a minute to “mourn the…
Crane collapse, train crash, caught in machinery, fall down an elevator shaft, shootings, vehicle incidents, On average, over 100 workers…
How workers died last week: Five workers killed in separate building collapses, workers crushed to death, falls, vehicle incidents, shootings,…
How workers died last week: falls, machinery and vehicle incidents, forklifts, shootings, cranes, firefighting, grain auger. On average, over 100…
I’ve been on vacation — but death in the workplace takes no breaks. Over the last couple of weeks, two…