Weekly Toll: Death in the Workplace
How workers died last week: Covered in molten steel, pinned between doors, hot air balloon crash, ski lift accident, chemical…
Weekly Toll: 2023 Ends With More Death in the Workplace
How workers died over the last couple of weeks: Two workers killed in trench collapses, worker crushed under 90,000-pound trailer,…
State Plan States, Foreign Born Hispanic Workers Lead the 2022 Death Toll
Earlier this week, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics reported an increase in the number of workers killed in 2022,…
Union Demands that OSHA Revoke Failing South Carolina OSHA Program
OSHA State Plan states — you can’t live with ’em, you can’t live without ’em. Or can you? A labor…
Weekly Toll: Gruesome Week in the American Workplace
Gruesome week in the American workplace. Worker pulled head-first into wood chipper. MTA subway worker dragged to his death by…
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: Killed on the Job
How workers died last week: Falls, crushed by an excavator, machinery and vehicle incidents, explosion, electrocution. On average, over 100…
Weekly Toll: Death on the Job Takes No Vacation
I’ve been on vacation — but death in the workplace takes no breaks. Over the last couple of weeks, two…
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…