Weekly Toll: The Last Two Weeks of Carnage in the American Workplace
These reports always contain an surprising and upsetting diversity of ways to die in the workplace. The last couple of…
The Weekly Toll: Three Weeks and the List Goes On and On and On
Auto shop worker fatally pinned in Montevideo MONTEVIDEO, Minn. (AP) — Police say the death of an auto shop worker…
Weekly Toll: Workers Age 19 to 60 Won’t Be Coming Home
Worker Dies in Industrial Accident at Northern Idaho Mill ATHOL, Idaho (AP) — Authorities say a worker at a northern…
Weekly Toll: Workers’ Deaths Are Not Statistics
A couple of comments before we get to this week’s list. We’ve written about OSHA’s unfortunate decision to remove the…
Weekly Toll (Actually 3 Weeks): Death in the American Workplace
Summer vacations, eclipses, white power marches and murders –but one constant: people keep dying in American workplaces One killed in…
Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Battle for Workplace Safety: Short Stuff
Problem with the job? Go kill yourselves: You’ve all heard the phrase “Your job of your life,” but Richland County,…
Serial Violator Blames OSHA Penalties for Layoffs
Aluminum Shapes, a New Jersey company, has the rare distinction of being the subject of one of only ten enforcement-related…
Weekly Toll: And Congress Wants to Cut OSHA’s Enforcement Budget?
Worker killed after collision with SUV on Fargo airport runway FARGO, ND — A contract worker painting stripes on the…
OSHA Enforcement: Reporters Report While OSHA Mostly Hides
Here we are, at the end of July, and OSHA continues to hide the fact that it actually enforces the…
Weekly Toll: Made In America
Five fatalities in Pennsylvania this week and three in Colorado. Work accident kills Mansfield business owner MANSFIELD, PA — A…