Dispatches From the Front Lines of the Battle for Workplace Safety and Health: Short Stuff
COSHCON17 — The Young and the Active — : The National Council for Occupational Safety and Health, the umbrella group…
Weekly Toll: Falls, Trench Collapses, Shootings, Traffic Incidents. All In a Day’s Work
1 killed, 1 injured in scaffolding collapse at Md. elementary school construction site FREDERICK COUNTY, Md. (WJLA) — A subcontractor…
Weekly Toll: The Bell Continues to Toll For American Workers
Bentleyville man dies at ArcelorMittal plant in Monessen Monessen, PA — A Bentleyville man died Sunday night at the ArcelorMittal…
OSHA Enforcement Update: Large Cases, More Press Releases.
At a Congressional hearing last month, Secretary of Labor Alex Acosta extolled the virtues of compliance assistance, cooperation over confrontation…
FedEx Fatalities: Mugno Has Some Explaining To do
Scott Mugno, nominated by President Trump to be the next head of OSHA has a problem. Several problems actually. Last…
The Weekly Toll: Death In The American Workplace
Man killed by falling tree in Brentwood BRENTWOOD, N.H. — A workplace accident took a tragic turn when a local…
Weekly Toll: The Last Two Weeks of Carnage in the American Workplace
These reports always contain an surprising and upsetting diversity of ways to die in the workplace. The last couple of…
Arkema Update: Chemical Plants and Climate Change
More information is coming out about the chemical releases at the Arkema chemical plant in Crosby Texas following last summer’s…
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…
When VPP Companies Kill
Over the past month, two workers have been killed at companies participating in OSHA’s Voluntary Protection Programs: Nucor Steel in…