Dispatches From the Front Lines of Workplace Safety & Health
Bring OSHA into the 21st Century The Occupational Safety and Health Act just had its 52nd birthday. OSHA was born…
Weekly Toll: Killed at Work
Last week workers were killed in explosions, fires, lightning, falls, building collapses, forklift incidents, shootings and vehicle incidents. On average,…
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…
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…
Weekly Toll: Killed At Work
How workers died last week. Healthcare workers shot and stabbed, cranes, forklifts, drowning, explosions, shootings and traffic incidents. On average,…
Reefer Madness: Death of Cannabis Worker
Last January 4, 2022, 27-year-old Lorna McMurrey went into cardiac arrest at Trulieve’s cannabis cultivation facility in Holyoke, Massachusetts and…
Weekly Toll: End of Watch
Yet another trench collapse, preventable falls, oilfield explosion and workers killed unjamming machinery. Two weeks of workplace death. On average,…
Weekly Toll: Labor Day and Families Mourn
Another WV mineworker killed, falls, machinery, chemical release, drowning, shootings, vehicular incidents and woman killed when hair drags her into…
Weekly Toll: Death on the Job
This list is a bit longer than usual because while I was on vacation, workers continued to die. This round:…
Heat: Summertime, and the Workers are Dying…
Last month, the Supreme Court dealt a serious blow to the efforts of the United States to address climate change. …