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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...

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.

https://jordanbarab.com/confinedspace/2024/09/11/public-employees-killed-by-preventable-hazards-and-its-all-legal/#comment-194060

The 2023 Workplace Safety Year in Review--OSHA Enforcement and Standards--Making Child Labor Great Again--Resurgence of The Labor Movement...

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/

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...

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/

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...

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?

https://jordanbarab.com/confinedspace/2023/12/15/union-petitions-osha-to-revoke-south-carolina-state-osha-program/

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...

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

How American workers died over the past several weeks: The Weekly Toll...

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/

Heat doesn't kill workers. The employer's failure to protect workers from the heat kills workers. And some localities have decided...

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.

https://jordanbarab.com/confinedspace/2023/07/21/miami-dade-moves-to-protect-workers-from-heat-as-another-dies/

16-year old killed in a meat processing plant while Republicans weaken child labor protections and attempt to slash the budget of the...

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/

House Republicans declare war on workers as their scorched earth FY 2024 budget proposal calls for catastrophic cuts in #OSHA, #MSHA and...

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/

47 Dead. The Lac Mégantic Rail Disaster Ten Years Later. What lessons have we...

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/

A particularly tragic week in the workplace. Another heat death, teenager killed, 3 workers die in scaffold collapse, two workers die in...

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/

Heat Kills Another Texas Worker After Governor Gregg Abbott Repeals Heat...

Heat Kills Another Texas Worker After Governor Gregg Abbott Repeals Heat Protections

https://jordanbarab.com/confinedspace/2023/07/01/heat-kills-another-texas-worker-after-abbott-rescinds-heat-protections/

Texas prisons are broiling. Prisoners and corrections officers are suffering. #OSHA can't to anything because officers are public...

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.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/29/us/texas-prisons-heat.html?unlocked_article_code=bBAUA6VicQQuFazmhFYmVYfpejPIm4b0nGzZaHb_kvu-Z3DfAfjZxo82IssDBkOG3toU_ZHo38V1VEgzhnQa8YsN10MR2zdEKZ5SbI5ockLLVspcel5AgFEiHlHOZF0tZUuvyhx4WaXB2VmC7kIR8Gdr7JG058PiK16e8IiXF3hsHXPRKSvhZcFP2G6ijJz9bg83Cp2KlAr2QbVPVQ6bzPmZEXmIsz2dCscxMLBs4EVQIgiwU1TsHtfWEOudErpeotI-rsqyajj5KVdb9JW3-pkFP3ZXxmhziS6QLWkfywVmwUJFxBUtSq3KFN5VAHIGaUoAYmau&smid=nytcore-android-share

A hidden section of the Republican debt limit extortion bill passed last week “represents one of the most radical threats in generations...

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/

"The most anti-child, anti-family bill that I’ve seen” related to child labor. “This law is an ideological solution when there is...

"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...

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

https://jordanbarab.com/confinedspace/2023/04/28/workers-memorial-day-mourn-for-tony-rice-and-fight-for-all-public-employees/

How corporate greed, regulatory malfeasance and racism led to 346 deaths. A Book Review: "Flying Blind: The 737 Max Tragedy and the...

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

https://jordanbarab.com/confinedspace/2023/04/07/book-review-flying-blind-corporate-greed-captured-regulators-and-346-deaths/

Today is the 112th anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist fire that killed 146 people, including 123 women, who burned to death or jumped...

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?

#OSHA #triangleshirtwaist

https://jordanbarab.com/confinedspace/2023/03/25/triangle-shirtwaist-112th-anniversary/

Child Labor: Sometimes only great journalism or terrible disasters -- or both -- can effect change in this country. Happily, we have some...

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/

Last week, workers were electrocuted, killed in explosions, a coal mine, shootings, falls, fires and traffic incidents. On average, over 100...

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/