Some Bad New (about NY Dairy Workers), But Also Good News: Read All About It in Short Stuff
Milking the Workers? Farm worker advocates have published a survey of mostly undocumented Hispanic workers that describes discrimination and workplace…
Weekly Toll: Death on the Job
Milford Woman In Norwood Skyline Fall Dies MILFORD, MA — A worker who fell through a skyline on Broadway in…
Public Employees: Too Late to be Concerned After a Death
The Massachusetts Senate has voted to expand the death benefit for public employees who die on the job to $300,000.…
ICE Goes After Undocumented Worker Seeking Workers Compensation
Every worker has a right to a safe workplace — whether they’re documented or not. And workers in many states…
Weekly Toll: Nothing Good Here
JCP&L employee dies after Freehold electrocution FREEHOLD, NJ – A Jersey Central Power & Light employee died after touching live…
Workplace Death: Freak Accident or Preventable?
Sometimes, when you’re reading about the tragedies in the Weekly Toll, there are a few that you think, “Well, that’s…
Weekly Toll: Remembering Those Who Aren’t Coming Home
The latest deaths in the workplace, at least as many as I can locate. Lots of vehicle related fatalities this…
BREAKING!!! OSHA Issues First Enforcement Press Release Announcing $1.5 million fine for two trench deaths
Employer in fatal Boston trench collapse did not provide safety training and basic safeguards for employees, OSHA finds Atlantic Drain…
Trench Deaths: No Excuse
An average of 13 workers die every day on the job. Every day news articles are written, investigations are conducted,…