Weekly Toll: Empty Seats at Thanksgiving
Either fewer workers were killed Thanksgiving week (because fewer were working) or fewer reporters reported on workplace fatalities (because fewer…
Weekly Toll: The Final Shift
How workers died last week: Two hospital workers killed, machinery, forklift, logging and vehicle incidents, falls, shootings. On average, over…
Weekly Toll: Say Their Names
Three 18-year-olds dead. How workers died last week: Electrocution, falls, machinery, vehicle incidents, tree care, drowning, forklift, confined space and…
Weekly Toll: Killed on the Job
A particularly tragic week in the workplace. Another heat death, teenager killed, 3 workers die in scaffold collapse, two workers…
Weekly Toll: Killed on the Job
Last week, workers were crushed in machines, and killed in falls, shootings, vehicular incidents and tree trimming. And a 16-year…
Weekly Toll: How Workers Died Last Week
Last week workers were crushed in a trench collapse, machinery and by a falling pipe. A worker died of a…
Weekly Toll: Killed on the Job
Last week: Workers crushed by trees and stone slab, killed by mass shooter, hit by cars, killed by forklift, electrocuted…
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: 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…