Weekly Toll: Crushed, Buried, Suffocated on the Job
Drowned in a trench, suffocated in a corn silo, crushed under a stone, Trench Collapse, grain silo suffocation, falls, burned…
Weekly Toll: Killed on the Job
I was on vacation last week, so this is a longer list than usual. Another trench collapse, falls, shootings, traffic…
Weekly Toll: Killed on the Job
Last week: Workers electrocuted, died of heat exposure and crushed by bulldozer, under machinery, and beneath a collapsed bridge. Falls…
Weekly Toll: Killed at Work Last Week
Last week: Three more trench deaths and two workers killed in separate Oklahoma oil drilling incidents. Another worker missing for…
Weekly Toll: Failure to Survive Work
Two trench deaths last week (on top of three the week before and three the week before that). On average,…
Weekly Toll: Death in the American Workplace
This week: Fires, falls, machinery, shootings, vehicles, forklift. On average, almost 100 workers are killed every week in the United…
The Weekly Toll: Death in the Workplace
This week: Two construction workers electrocuted, tree cutting, traffic crashes, mining, shootings. On average, almost 100 workers are killed every…
Weekly Toll: Children, Parents and Friends
This week: 16 year old McDonald’s worker shot, mine worker killed, workers run over by bulldozers, killed in fire, crushed…
Weekly Toll: The Last Shift
This week: Trench collapse, fires, shootings and stabbings, vehicle-related incidents, logging. Never short of different ways for workers to die…
Preventing Deaths in the Season of the Trench
Sometimes it’s hard to remember with all the bad news around OSHA’s authority to protect workers from COVID-19, that there…