Weekly Toll: Death on the Job
Two highway construction workers, a flagger and a tow truck driver killed, three tree cutting deaths, teen killed on hog…
A newsletter of workplace safety and labor issues
Two highway construction workers, a flagger and a tow truck driver killed, three tree cutting deaths, teen killed on hog…
How workers died last week: Two trenching fatalities, electrocution, falls, fires, public employee drowning, machinery deaths, shootings, stabbing, vehicle incidents.…
I have (unfortunately) written often about the growing scourge of child labor — especially in dangerous food processing industry —…
How workers died last week: Covered in molten steel, pinned between doors, hot air balloon crash, ski lift accident, chemical…
Workers crushed under semi-trailer, under mobile home and by thousands of pounds of dirt in an unprotected trench. Shootings, falls,…
Many families are not having a happy holiday. How Workers Died Last Week: Killed by falling block, crushed in machinery,…
How Workers Died Last Week: Tree trimming, Falls, toxic chemicals, suicide, shootings, stabbing, machinery and vehicle incidents, On average, over…
Gruesome week in the American workplace. Worker pulled head-first into wood chipper. MTA subway worker dragged to his death by…
How workers died last week: Two hospital workers killed, machinery, forklift, logging and vehicle incidents, falls, shootings. On average, over…
How workers died last week: Falls, crushed by an excavator, machinery and vehicle incidents, explosion, electrocution. On average, over 100…