Weekly Toll: Work Continues Its Deadly Course
Bourbonnais Man Dies From Possible Pesticide Exposure In Chicago Ridge CHICAGO RIDGE, IL — A Bourbonnais man died after he…
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 Not Coming Home This Week
68-year-old man killed in workplace accident in Hall County Atlanta, GA — The Occupational Safety and Health Administration is investigating.…
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,…
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…
Weekly Toll: Not Coming Home From Work
Worker found dead, pinned in NYC elevator shaft NEW YORK (AP) — Police say a construction worker was found dead,…
Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Battle for Workplace Safety and Health: Short Stuff
“We need to be protecting our workers as much as protecting our shores.” So says former OSHA head Dr. David…
Weekly Toll: Suffocations, Shootings, Highways — again.
Fourth TECO worker dies after accident at plant Tampa, FL — A fourth person has died from the TECO Apollo…