Weekly Toll: They Left It All At Work
This week: Explosions, falls, fires, suffocation, shootings, electrocution, vehicle-related incidents…and yet another trench collapse. Never short of different ways for…
A newsletter of workplace safety and labor issues
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…
I took a week off compiling this list. No change in the deadly work that American workers do, except that…
Genesee Power Station employee dies in workplace accident FLINT, MI – An employee died in an industrial accident at the…
Today is Memorial Day when we remember those who gave their lives defending this country and the freedoms we defend…