OSHA Enforcement Update: Large Cases, More Press Releases.
At a Congressional hearing last month, Secretary of Labor Alex Acosta extolled the virtues of compliance assistance, cooperation over confrontation…
The Weekly Toll: Three Weeks and the List Goes On and On and On
Auto shop worker fatally pinned in Montevideo MONTEVIDEO, Minn. (AP) — Police say the death of an auto shop worker…
Dairy Workers: Suffocating in Manure
Tim Craig has written a very good, if disturbing article in the Washington Post about hazardous conditions for dairy farm…
Weekly Toll: Workers Age 19 to 60 Won’t Be Coming Home
Worker Dies in Industrial Accident at Northern Idaho Mill ATHOL, Idaho (AP) — Authorities say a worker at a northern Idaho lumber…
Residential Construction: Death, Injury and Doing it the Right Way
Kudos to Idaho Statesman Reporter Audrey Dutton for a first-rate article about the hazards of residential construction — how many employers refuse…
Weekly Toll: Not Coming Home
The latest list of workers not coming home at the end of the shift Jimmy Ray Baker, 45 of Houston…
Trench Deaths: No Excuse
An average of 13 workers die every day on the job. Every day news articles are written, investigations are conducted,…