Weekly Toll: Empty Seats for the Holidays
Many families are not having a happy holiday. How Workers Died Last Week: Killed by falling block, crushed in machinery,…
Weekly Toll: Death in the American Workplace
How Workers Died Last Week: Tree trimming, Falls, toxic chemicals, suicide, shootings, stabbing, machinery and vehicle incidents, On average, over…
Weekly Toll: Empty Seats at Thanksgiving
Either fewer workers were killed Thanksgiving week (because fewer were working) or fewer reporters reported on workplace fatalities (because fewer…
Weekly Toll: The Final Shift
How workers died last week: Two hospital workers killed, machinery, forklift, logging and vehicle incidents, falls, shootings. On average, over…
Weekly Toll: Killed on the Job
How workers died last week: Falls, crushed by an excavator, machinery and vehicle incidents, explosion, electrocution. On average, over 100…
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…
Weekly Toll: Death on the Job Takes No Vacation
I’ve been on vacation — but death in the workplace takes no breaks. Over the last couple of weeks, two…
Weekly Toll: Not Coming Home From Work
How workers died last week: Electrocution, falls, machinery, vehicle incidents, tree care, drowning and shootings. On average, over 100 workers…
Weekly Toll: The Final Shift
How workers died last week. Backed over, falls, electrocution, shootings, machinery incidents, vehicle incidents and on and on and on.…
Weekly Toll: Death on the Job
How workers died over the past few weeks: I was on vacation for a couple of weeks, so this is…