Weekly Toll: A Week of Deadly Catastrophes
Last week witnessed two workplace catastrophes: 6 workers were killed in a highway construction zone in Maryland and 7 were…
Weekly Toll: The Final Shift
Last week: Workers run over by vehicles, drowned, killed in falls, crushed by trees and equipment and shot. On average,…
Weekly Toll: Death on the Job
Last week: Workers killed fighting fires, falling off buildings, crushed under pallets and walls, hit by a train, mauled by…
Weekly Toll: More Death on the Job
Last week, workers were electrocuted, killed in explosions, a coal mine, shootings, falls, fires and traffic incidents. On average, over…
Weekly Toll: Working the Final Shift
Over the last week, worker shot for “brandishing” company-issued cutter, workers killed in chemical tank explosion, electrocutions, falls, forklift, vehicle…
Weekly Toll: Killed at work
Over the last week, two EMTs killed, a couple of logging deaths, storm-related fatalities, falls, shootings, vehicular incidents. All in…
Weeky Toll: More Workplace Carnage Starting the New Year.
Through January 2. Running a bit behind due to vacation. But no vacation from deadly workplace tragedies: Three workers killed…
Empty Chairs for the Holidays: The Weekly Toll
As I summarized last week, the Bureau of Labor Statistics issued its annual Census on Fatal Occupational Injuries for 2021.…
Weekly Toll: Killed on the Job
Yet another trench collapse, assaults on nurse and social worker, wood chipper, two tow truck driver deaths, falls, fire, drowning.…
Weekly Toll: Missing from the Thanksgiving Table
How workers died last week. Falls, shootings, forklifts, snow removal, hit-and-runs ….. On average, almost 100 workers are killed every…