Weekly Toll: The Final Shift
How workers died last week: Machinery, forklift, grain bin, fire, shootings, vehicle incidents, On average, over 100 workers are killed…
Weekly Toll: Dead at Work
Body of missing Tenn. sheriff’s deputy found after cruiser discovered in river with another body inside MEIGS COUNTY, Tenn. —…
Weekly Toll: Clocking Out of the Last Shift
How workers died last week: Two trench collapses, electrocution, wood chipper, falls, shootings, stabbing, vehicle incidents, suicide. On average, over…
Can Child Labor Rescue America From Labor Shortages? An Update
I have (unfortunately) written often about the growing scourge of child labor — especially in dangerous food processing industry —…
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,…
Weekly Toll: Empty Seats for the Holidays
Many families are not having a happy holiday. How Workers Died Last Week: Killed by falling block, crushed in machinery,…
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: 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
How workers died last week: Workplace violence, mine building collapse, firefighting, drowning, tree care, shooting, vehicle incidents. On average, over…