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…
Dispatches From the Front Lines of the Battle to Protect Workers: Short Stuff
In Memorium, Adrienne Markowitz: The health and safety movement has lost another of its legends. Adrienne Markowitz, former safety and…
Blankenship Sponsors Nauseating, Error-ridden Commercial
Some of you may have had the misfortune over the last few nights to see this commercial. Produced and paid…
Trump Names Coal Executive to Head MSHA
As deaths in coal mines rise, President Trump last Friday nominated retired coal mining executive David Zatezalo to head the…
Weekly Toll: OSHA Won’t Tell You Who Died In The Workplace. We Will
Last week in the workplace: Of note, three fatalities related to forklifts. Also, while OSHA removes workplace fatalities from its…
Trump Heads to Coal Country to Give Best Speech Ever Made
President Trump is heading to West Virginia coal country tonight to give the best-speech-ever-made to the largest crowd the state…
Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Battle for Workplace Safety and Health: Short Stuff
“We need to be protecting our workers as much as protecting our shores.” So says former OSHA head Dr. David…
Weekly Toll: Made In America
Five fatalities in Pennsylvania this week and three in Colorado. Work accident kills Mansfield business owner MANSFIELD, PA — A…
Weekly Toll: The Pain Continues
UGI worker killed in Pa. home explosion, company confirms Lancaster, PA — A UGI worker was killed and two others…
Kill Workers. Don’t Respond. Repeat.
So what’s going on here? OSHA investigates second fatal explosion in a month at Barbour Co., WV plant ARDEN, W.Va.…