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I’ve been gone the past few weeks and behind on memorializing those killed in the workplace. I’ll catch up this…
A newsletter of workplace safety and labor issues
I’ve been gone the past few weeks and behind on memorializing those killed in the workplace. I’ll catch up this…
On average, almost 100 workers are killed every week in the United States due to traumatic injuries suffered at work.…
This week: Explosions, falls, fires, suffocation, shootings, electrocution, vehicle-related incidents…and yet another trench collapse. Never short of different ways for…
This is a weekly list of some workers killed on the job over the past week. I collect this information…
When I walked into my new job at AFSCME on November 1, 1982, I was immediately given the workplace safety…
It never stops. Two workers, Juan Baez-Sanchez, 42, and Victoriano Garcia-Perez, 56, both Mexican immigrants, died in the collapse of…
Firefighter dies after propane tank explodes in Tilford Rapid City, SD — A local firefighter died Friday afternoon while fighting…
Another in a continuing, never-ending series on the tragedy of preventable trench collapses (and the journalism that accompanies them.) Anthony…
2 firefighters killed as blaze rages in northern California REDDING, CALIF. —The National Park Service reports a second firefighter has died…
I took a week off compiling this list. No change in the deadly work that American workers do, except that workers…