Weekly Toll: The Last Shift
Line worker killed by falling tree in Middletown MIDDLETOWN, Conn. (WTNH) – An Eversource subcontractor was killed in Middletown on…
Weekly Toll: Holiday Season Provides No Vacation From Workplace Death
Weekly Toll: Holiday Season Provides No Vacation From Workplace Death
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2018: The Workplace Safety and Health Year in Review
2018 is gone and buried. What happened in the world of workplace safety and health? What can we learn that…
This Day in Workplace Safety History: Sago
Today is the 13th anniversary of the Sago Mine disaster that killed 12 miners and led to a sweeping modernization…
Weekly Toll: Workers Who Punched in, but Never Punched Out Last Week
Florida Construction Worker Killed After Being Trapped Under Crane at Marina Bradenton, FL — Authorities say a construction worker was…
Weekly Toll: Human Statistics Who Won’t Be Coming Home
A list of a few of the workers in this country who died on the job last week.
Weekly Toll: Three Weeks of Death on the Job
Excuse the length of this depressing exercise, but I’ve been away for a couple of weeks and unlike me, workplace…
Kentucky OSHA: NPR Story On State’s Failure to Enforce
Listen here to an NPR investigative story on serious investigation and enforcement problems at Kentucky OSHA. I wrote about this…
Are Kentucky — And Other OSHA State Plans — Failing Their Workers?
OSHA State Plans: love ’em or hate ’em, but we have to live with them. The Kentucky Center for Investigative…
Weekly Toll: A Few American Workers Who Will Never Come Home
Not a good week to be a worker in Indiana (California and Florida weren’t so hot either.) Construction worker killed…