Weekly Toll: Workers Who Will Not Be Coming Home
Last week workers were electrocuted, killed in a trench collapse, died in falls, crushed by machinery, shot and a bunch…
Weekly Toll: Killed on the Job
Last week, workers were crushed in machines, and killed in falls, shootings, vehicular incidents and tree trimming. And a 16-year…
Weekly Toll: Mourning for the Dead
Last week workers were decapitated in a vehicle crash, crushed in a trench collapse, caught in machinery and killed in…
Weekly Toll: A Week of Deadly Catastrophes
Last week witnessed two workplace catastrophes: 6 workers were killed in a highway construction zone in Maryland and 7 were…
Labor Shortages? How About More Child Labor?
Last Fall, I wrote about an upsetting Labor Department injunction filed in federal court against Packers Sanitation Services (PSSI) Inc.…
Weekly Toll: Killed on the Job
I was away for a couple of weeks, so running behind. In this report, workers died from falls, drowned, were…
Weekly Toll: Working the Final Shift
Over the last week, worker shot for “brandishing” company-issued cutter, workers killed in chemical tank explosion, electrocutions, falls, forklift, vehicle…
Weekly Toll
Workers crushed in yet another trench collapse, caught in machinery, crushed under falling equipment, killed in explosions, falling from heights,…
Weekly Toll: Killed At Work
How workers died last week. Healthcare workers shot and stabbed, cranes, forklifts, drowning, explosions, shootings and traffic incidents. On average,…
Weekly Toll: Killed on the Job
I was on vacation last week, so this is a longer list than usual. Another trench collapse, falls, shootings, traffic…