Confined Space

NOTE: Confined Space is back after a short 10-year break and can now be found at: Confined Space.

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Workplace issues, Occupational Safety and Health (OSHA), Workplace Safety, Public Health, Environment and Political Information that everyone should know.

What happens inside the Beltway matters outside the Beltway.

That's why they try to keep it secret.

Wednesday, March 15, 2017

We're Back! And We've Moved

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In case you've somehow missed the news, Confined Space is back after a short 10-year break while I was working in the House of Represen...
Tuesday, January 30, 2007

Beyond Confined Space

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As I mentioned in last week's farewell post ( here , if you missed it), I will try to keep you up to date on places you can go to find s...
Wednesday, January 24, 2007

Goodbye: The Final Curtain Comes Down

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As I mentioned last night, this will be my last Confined Space post. Next week I start work at the House Education and Labor Committee. If...

A Son, A Father, 911 and The President

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Guests at last night's State of the Union address didn't just include basketball players and Iraq war veterans. One guest -- who has...

What's In A Name? (Part II)

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William Safire in the NY Times Magazine last Sunday has more to say about the name change at my future employer, the House Education and La...
Tuesday, January 23, 2007

Moving On: Closing Up Shop

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This is incredibly hard for me, but tomorrow night will be my last blog post on Confined Space . After much deliberation, I’ve decided to ta...

Libby Asbestos Activist Dies; Residents Consider Buyout

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Les Skramstad died Sunday. He was 70. I often complain about how workplace fatalities get very little press. Every couple of weeks, Tammy a...

Hazardous Trenches, Good Luck and Bad Journalism

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Eric Moreno is an extremely lucky guy. He was running some sewer pipe down in an unshored 7-8 foot deep trench last week when it collapsed ...
Monday, January 22, 2007

Nothing New About Trench Collapses

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Check out the Weekly Toll below and you'll find a familiar entry at the top: a worker crushed to death in a trench collapse . But how c...

Chilling Reading

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Julie Ferguson at Workers Comp Insider has a very nice piece on our Weekly Toll : Every other week, our blog neighbor Tammy at Confined Spa...
Sunday, January 21, 2007

To Sit Or Not To Sit....

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It hadn't really occurred to me until I read this article, but cashiers at the little grocery store across from our apartment in Paris l...

Weekly Toll: Death In The American Workplace

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A partial list of workers killed in American workplaces over the last several weeks. Worker dies after trench collapses Greenwich, CT - A 59...
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