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…
East Palestine: The Forgotten Rail Workers
The trains must go through! As you might imagine, there was quite a mess to clean up in order to…
Weekly Toll
Last week, workers were killed in falls, machinery, chemical plant explosion, shootings, plane crashes, electrocutions and vehicular incidents. On average,…
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…
Last Weekly Toll of the Year
Last week: Workers die in machinery-related deaths, electrocution, traffic incidents, falls, shootings. Just a few of the ways workers died…
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…