Weekly Toll: Death on the Job
How workers died last week: falls, machinery and vehicle incidents, forklifts, shootings, cranes, firefighting, grain auger. On average, over 100…
A newsletter of workplace safety and labor issues
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…
Last Week workers were killed in explosions, falls, shootings, tree cutting, vehicle incidents and trapped in a freezer. On average,…
Last week workers were crushed in a trench collapse, machinery and by a falling pipe. A worker died of a…
As I summarized last week, the Bureau of Labor Statistics issued its annual Census on Fatal Occupational Injuries for 2021.…
How workers died last week. Electrocutions, tow trucks, railroad, crushed by materials, gas leaks, shootings, vehicles ….. On average, almost…
How workers died last week. Healthcare workers shot and stabbed, cranes, forklifts, drowning, explosions, shootings and traffic incidents. On average,…
Silo suffocation, refinery fire, highway construction, wildfire, electrocution — all the ways that workers died last week. n average, almost…
I was on vacation last week, so this is a longer list than usual. Another trench collapse, falls, shootings, traffic…
As we pass the midpoint of 2022, we may be headed to a new record for trench collapse fatalities. Dare…