West Virginia Archives - Confined Space

Dispatches From the Front Lines of Occupational Safety and Health

September 11, 2026 Jordan Barab

Are you dreading the long boring weekend coming up? Well, never fear. Confined Space is providing you with lots of…

Fires and Firefighting Public Employees Trench Collapse Weekly Toll

Failure to Survive Work: The Weekly Toll

July 27, 2026 Aina Atienza

How workers died last week: Trench collapses, heat, rollovers, coal mining, firefighting, occupational cancer, cell tower, skid steer, explosions, grain…

Fires and Firefighting Weekly Toll

The Final Shift: The Weekly Toll

June 29, 2026 Aina Atienza

How workers died last week: industrial incidents, farming, rollovers, firefighting, electrocution, offshore incident, skid-loader, vehicle incidents and shootings. On average,…

Trench Collapse Weekly Toll

The Weekly Toll: How Workers Died Last Week

June 23, 2026 Aina Atienza

How workers died last week: Trench collapse, explosions, falling objects, tree care, shootings, airplane incidents, vehicular collisions, machinery, rollovers, occupational…

Fires and Firefighting Public Employees Weekly Toll

Dead on the Job: The Weekly Toll

June 15, 2026 Aina Atienza

How workers died last week: Falls, firefighting, grain bin suffocation, lumber mill, vehicular collisions, forklifts, shootings, occupational cancer. On average,…

Mine Safety Trench Collapse Weekly Toll

Workers Killed on the Job: The Weekly Toll

May 26, 2026 Aina Atienza

How workers died last week: trench collapse, falling rock, crushed to death, lawn mower, septic tank suffocation, electrocution, mine incidents,…

Confined Space Weekly Toll

The Negligence Just Keeps Piling Up: The Bi-Weekly Toll

April 29, 2026 Aina Atienza

How workers died last week: electrocutions, tunnel collapse, explosion, falling, rollovers, brush fire, grain-bin, crushed by construction lift, vehicular collisions,…

Mine Safety Trench Collapse Weekly Toll

Fooling Around with Workers’ Lives: The Weekly Toll

April 7, 2026 Aina Atienza

How workers died last week: trench collapse, electrocutions, coal mining, falls, tree care, crane collapse, vehicular collisions, stabbed, ruptured hot…

Mine Safety MSHA This Day In History

This Day in Workplace Safety History: The Sago Mine Disaster

January 2, 2026 Jordan Barab

Today marks the 20th anniversary of the Sago mine disaster.

Weekly Toll Workplace Violence

No Happy New Year: The Weekly Toll

December 29, 2025 Jordan Barab

How workers died last week: Logging, construction, gas explosion, truck repair, avalanche, mining, stabbing, shootings and vehicle incidents. On average,…

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