Public Employees are not covered by #OSHA in 23 states. These 8 million employees do the same work that private sector workers do, but they have no right to a safe workplace.
And they keep dying. It must stop. They deserve protection.
12.9.2024 16:55Public Employees are not covered by #OSHA in 23 states. These 8 million employees do the same work that private sector workers do, but they...The 2023 Workplace Safety Year in Review
--OSHA Enforcement and Standards
--Making Child Labor Great Again
--Resurgence of The Labor Movement
--Rail Safety
--Great Journalism
-- Covid-19 and Healthcare Workers
--Heat Hazards
--Attacks on #OSHA
https://jordanbarab.com/confinedspace/2024/01/02/2023-the-confined-space-year-in-review/
3.1.2024 19:55The 2023 Workplace Safety Year in Review--OSHA Enforcement and Standards--Making Child Labor Great Again--Resurgence of The Labor Movement...5,486 workers were killed on the job the US in 2022, a 5.7-percent increase over 2021. The rate of workplace deaths rose as well.
5,486 workplace deaths translates into one death every 96 minutes: 15 every day, over 100 every week.
These deaths are traumatic fatal injuries and do not include deaths resulting from occupational illnesses like COVID-19, silicosis, liver disease or cancer. It is estimated that 120,000 workers die from occupational disease each year.
https://jordanbarab.com/confinedspace/2023/12/19/in-2022-15-workers-died-every-day/
19.12.2023 21:205,486 workers were killed on the job the US in 2022, a 5.7-percent increase over 2021. The rate of workplace deaths rose as well.5,486...Almost half the country's workers are covered by #OSHA state plans, yet OSHA does a poor job overseeing them.
Now a labor union has stepped in to demand that OSHA revoke South Carolina's state OSHA plan because it is not as effective as federal OSHA.
What’s going on in South Carolina? What options does OSHA have if a state is not effectively running its OSHA program? Why do we even have state OSHA programs? What can be done to improve OSHA’s oversight?
15.12.2023 23:08Almost half the country's workers are covered by #OSHA state plans, yet OSHA does a poor job overseeing them. Now a labor union has...Why do public employees continue to get hurt and die as second-class citizens with no right to a safe workplace and no right to come home alive and healthy after work?
More than 50 years after passage of the Occupational Safety and Health Act https://jordanbarab.com/confinedspace/2023/09/06/deadly-injustice-public-employees-as-second-class-citizens/ via @Jbarab
6.9.2023 21:34Why do public employees continue to get hurt and die as second-class citizens with no right to a safe workplace and no right to come home...How American workers died over the past several weeks: The Weekly Toll https://jordanbarab.com/confinedspace/2023/08/14/weekly-toll-death-on-the-job-4/
14.8.2023 22:19How American workers died over the past several weeks: The Weekly Toll...Heat doesn't kill workers. The employer's failure to protect workers from the heat kills workers.
And some localities have decided to do something about it.
21.7.2023 17:22Heat doesn't kill workers. The employer's failure to protect workers from the heat kills workers. And some localities have decided...16-year old killed in a meat processing plant while Republicans weaken child labor protections and attempt to slash the budget of the federal agency that enforces child labor protections.
https://jordanbarab.com/confinedspace/2023/07/18/16-year-old-killed-in-meat-processing-plant/
18.7.2023 20:3716-year old killed in a meat processing plant while Republicans weaken child labor protections and attempt to slash the budget of the...House Republicans declare war on workers as their scorched earth FY 2024 budget proposal calls for catastrophic cuts in #OSHA, #MSHA and #NLRB budgets.
https://jordanbarab.com/confinedspace/2023/07/14/house-republicans-declare-war-on-workers/
14.7.2023 15:58House Republicans declare war on workers as their scorched earth FY 2024 budget proposal calls for catastrophic cuts in #OSHA, #MSHA and...47 Dead. The Lac Mégantic Rail Disaster Ten Years Later. What lessons have we learned?
https://jordanbarab.com/confinedspace/2023/07/06/lac-megantic-ten-years-later/
6.7.2023 21:1447 Dead. The Lac Mégantic Rail Disaster Ten Years Later. What lessons have we...A particularly tragic week in the workplace.
Another heat death, teenager killed, 3 workers die in scaffold collapse, two workers die in grain bins, electrocutions, falls, vehicle incidents, drowning and shootings.
https://jordanbarab.com/confinedspace/
4.7.2023 02:19A particularly tragic week in the workplace. Another heat death, teenager killed, 3 workers die in scaffold collapse, two workers die in...Heat Kills Another Texas Worker After Governor Gregg Abbott Repeals Heat Protections
1.7.2023 22:09Heat Kills Another Texas Worker After Governor Gregg Abbott Repeals Heat...Texas prisons are broiling. Prisoners and corrections officers are suffering. #OSHA can't to anything because officers are public employees who aren't covered by OSHA in Texas. And they don't complain because they fear retaliation.
1.7.2023 22:08Texas prisons are broiling. Prisoners and corrections officers are suffering. #OSHA can't to anything because officers are public...A hidden section of the Republican debt limit extortion bill passed last week “represents one of the most radical threats in generations to our government’s ability to protect the public from harm.” https://jordanbarab.com/confinedspace/2023/05/05/republicans-weaponize-debt-limit-fight-to-destroy-worker-protections/
6.5.2023 16:25A hidden section of the Republican debt limit extortion bill passed last week “represents one of the most radical threats in generations..."The most anti-child, anti-family bill that I’ve seen” related to child labor. “This law is an ideological solution when there is no problem.”
@DebbieBerkowitz https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/05/04/iowa-child-labor-reynolds/
Today is Workers Memorial Day: It's hard to mourn for all the thousands killed in the workplace every year. So today, I'm going to mourn for just one: Tony Rice
28.4.2023 20:27Today is Workers Memorial Day: It's hard to mourn for all the thousands killed in the workplace every year. So today, I'm going to...How corporate greed, regulatory malfeasance and racism led to 346 deaths.
A Book Review: "Flying Blind: The 737 Max Tragedy and the Fall of Boeing
8.4.2023 03:12How corporate greed, regulatory malfeasance and racism led to 346 deaths. A Book Review: "Flying Blind: The 737 Max Tragedy and the...Today is the 112th anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist fire that killed 146 people, including 123 women, who burned to death or jumped when a fire broke out. Terrified workers found locked emergency exits.
What lessons have we learned?
https://jordanbarab.com/confinedspace/2023/03/25/triangle-shirtwaist-112th-anniversary/
25.3.2023 18:24Today is the 112th anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist fire that killed 146 people, including 123 women, who burned to death or jumped...Child Labor: Sometimes only great journalism or terrible disasters -- or both -- can effect change in this country.
Happily, we have some great journalists investigating #child labor -- and policy makers are paying attention.
https://jordanbarab.com/confinedspace/2023/03/24/child-labor-when-great-journalism-meets-bad-policy/
24.3.2023 21:21Child Labor: Sometimes only great journalism or terrible disasters -- or both -- can effect change in this country. Happily, we have some...Last week, workers were electrocuted, killed in explosions, a coal mine, shootings, falls, fires and traffic incidents. On average, over 100 workers are killed every week in the United States due to traumatic injuries suffered at work.
More than 20 times as many die from occupational diseases, many due to exposure to hazardous substances many years before they died.
Here are how a few died last week. https://jordanbarab.com/confinedspace/2023/03/06/weekly-toll-more-death-on-the-job/
7.3.2023 16:01Last week, workers were electrocuted, killed in explosions, a coal mine, shootings, falls, fires and traffic incidents. On average, over 100...