Weekly Toll: Workers Memorial Day Edition
Monday was Workers Memorial Day where we pause to remember the dead and fight like hell for the living. Meanwhile,…
Weekly Toll: They Shall Not Rise Again
How Workers Died Last Week: Tanker explosion, highway work zone, electrocution, falling cargo, vehicle incident, shootings. On average, over 100…
Weekly Toll: Killed on the Job
How workers died over the past couple of weeks (Part 1): Forklift, skid steer and lawn mower incidents, fall, tornado,…
Weekly Toll: Killed at Work
How workers died last week. Killed in highway construction, crushed by animal feed and concrete block, forklift incidents, crushed by…
Beshear Vetoes Kentucky OSHA Bill
Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear yesterday vetoed a business-backed bill that will weaken Kentucky’s state OSHA program. The original legislation, which…
Kentucky Goes After Miners After Weakening OSHA
It’s Trump Time. But while Elon and the Trump regime pillage protections for workers, consumers and the environment, there is…
Weekly Toll: Slaughtered at Work
How workers died last week. Helicopter crash, drownings, hit by falling debris, falls, forklifts, payloaders, vehicle incidents, murdered by an…
Kentucky Republicans Launch OSHA Race to the Bottom
The Kentucky State Legislature is poised to pass legislation that will weaken health and safety protections for the state’s workers.…
Weekly Toll: How Workers Die
How workers died last week. Trench collapse, hit by a crane, suffocated in grain bin, fall, crushed by machinery, skid…
Weekly Toll: Death on the Job
How workers died last week. Decapitated in woodchipper, crushed by concrete slab, air crashes, coal mining, electrocution ,airport tarmac accident,…