Baltimore Hires Anti-OSHA Law Firm to Investigate Worker Heat Death
We wrote last week about the tragic workplace heat death of sanitation worker Ronald Silver II who died of heat…
Heat Kills Baltimore City Worker Before OSHA Standard is Issued
When it comes to workplace safety and health, nothing sharpens the mind of politicians, the media, unions and regulators like…
Weekly Toll
How workers died last week: Heat, electrocution, falls, fire, explosions, coal mining, helicopter crash, vehicle incidents, stabbing, shootings. On average,…
Weekly Toll
How workers died last week: Heat, electrocution, drownings, shootings, wood chipper, bee attack, firefighting, vehicle incidents. On average, over 100…
Right Outside Our Kitchen Window
Nothing is easy. They’re rebuilding the house next door — right outside our kitchen window. Last week they had guys…
Weekly Toll: Killed on the Job
How Workers Died over the past few weeks: Crushed, electrocuted, shot, suicide, explosion, vehicle incidents. On average, over 100 workers…
Weekly Toll: Killed on the Job
I’ve been traveling for a few weeks, so this and next week’s list will be a bit longer than usual.…
Weekly Toll: Killed on the Job
Last week two workers were killed in grain facilities, 8 migrant farmworkers were killed in a traffic incident, workers were…
Weekly Toll: Killed on the Job
Last week workers were killed in explosions, trench collapse, electrocution, vehicle accidents, shootings, crushed by machinery and stomped by a…
It’s Trench Season! Let’s Be Watchful Out There
It’s spring. The flowers are blooming, the cicadas are coming and peoples’ water lines and roofs need repair. And to…