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…
Weekly Toll: Don’t Forget Us
Last Thursday, the Department of Labor held a Workers Memorial Day ceremony in Washington DC. OSHA’s family liaison, Tonya Ford…
Weekly Toll: Death on the Job
Two highway construction workers, a flagger and a tow truck driver killed, three tree cutting deaths, teen killed on hog…
Weekly Toll: Death on the Job
How Workers Died Last Week: Bridge collapse, crushed by granite, chemical and pipe explosions, tree trimming, fire, electrocution, vehicle incidents,…
Baltimore Bridge Collapses With Workers On Top
Watching Baltimore’s Frances Scott Key Bridge collapse into the Patapsco river after a ship hit a bridge support is at…
Weekly Toll: How Workers Die
How workers died last week: Two trenching fatalities, electrocution, falls, fires, public employee drowning, machinery deaths, shootings, stabbing, vehicle incidents.…
Weekly Toll: Killed at Work
How workers died last week: Falls, vehicle incidents, shootings and a number of unexplained “industrial accidents”. On average, over 100…
Neighborhood Trenches: It Never Ends….
This morning. A few blocks from my house. He wasn’t very appreciative of my efforts to save his life. For…
Weekly Toll: Death in the Workplace
How workers died last week: Covered in molten steel, pinned between doors, hot air balloon crash, ski lift accident, chemical…
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Dispatches From the Front Lines of Workplace Safety and Health
Violent Assaults Against Workers Continue While OSHA continues to sloooowly make progress on its standard to protect healthcare workers against…