Saturday, January 20, 2007

CalOSHA Standards Board Chickens Out of Issuing Emergency Temporary Standard for Popcorn Lung

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As long as I've been in this business, there are some things I just don't understand. Like this: Earlier this week, the CalOSHA stan...
Thursday, January 18, 2007

No Mercy For Alaska Governor Who Pardoned Company Convicted Of Killing Worker

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The Anchorage Daily News was as upset as we were by (former) Governor Frank Murkowski's pardon of a company convicted of negligent homi...

What’s it like to live near a refinery?

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The Baker Panel's report on the safety culture at BP's North American refineries prompted Lisa Margonelli to discuss in the NY Time...
Wednesday, January 17, 2007

Straw Men: More Thoughts On The Baker BP Panel

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I reported yesterday on the release of the Baker Panel's 374 page report on the sad state of BP's safety system at its North Americ...

Jewish Organizations Fight For Worker Safety In Kosher Slaughterhouses: "Thou shalt not rule over him with rigor."

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I wrote last July about serious workplace safety hazards in an Iowa Kosher meatpacking plant, revealed in an article in Forward . In respon...
Tuesday, January 16, 2007

Baker Panel Report Blasts BP

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The Baker Panel, investigating the "safety culture" at BP's five North American refineries, issued its 374 page report today ...
Monday, January 15, 2007

Miners Gave Their Lives For The Last Little Bit Of Coal

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I wrote yesterday about the death of two coal miners, James D. Thomas , 48, of North Tazewell, Va., and utilityman Pete Poindexter , 33, of ...
Sunday, January 14, 2007

Two West Virginia Miners Killed In Roof Fall

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Two miners were killed in a roof collapse in a West Virginia mine yesterday. The deaths occurred at the Brooks Run Mining Co.’s Cucumber Mi...
Saturday, January 13, 2007

Maryland County Moves On Workplace Safety

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One of the major problems with ensuring the ssafety of workers in the country is the lack of staffing and resources that federal OSHA or OSH...

Where Do They Find These Guys?

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Curiouser and curiouser : The senior Pentagon official in charge of military detainees suspected of terrorism said in an interview this week...
Friday, January 12, 2007

Of Foxes, Chickens and Chickencoops

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In the continuing spirit of bi-partisanship, President Bush has renominated some of the worst of the worst nominees to head safety, environ...
Thursday, January 11, 2007

Change Is In The Air; And In The House

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Yes, it's true, the House of Representatives is doing some real things for the American worker, like passing a minimum wage bill. But re...
Wednesday, January 10, 2007

Throwaway Truckers

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Chicago Tribune reporters Steve Franklin and Darnell Little have continued their series on Throwaway Workers with two more articles about t...
Tuesday, January 09, 2007

OSHA: The Next 35 Years -- What Would You Do?

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Let's project ourselves into the future a bit. Suppose a labor-friendly Democratic president is elected in two years, along with a Congr...

Is It Possible To Provide Less Information?

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Need I say any more about the problems with media reports of workplace injury and death? Tyson worker dies at Emporia plant The Capital-Jour...

Global Warming Meltdown in the Supreme Court

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Check out the Pump Handle for a new post by David Rosner and Gerald Markowitz, the two historians who authored " Deceit and Denial: Th...
Monday, January 08, 2007

Insurers Refuse Health Insurance To Workers In Certain Jobs

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If you're an air traffic controller, a firefighter, or work in a stable, forget about getting health insurance, at least from some Calif...

Library Of Congress Cited For Safety Problems

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One might think that librarians have pretty darn safe jobs -- particularly those who work for the Library of Congress. Of course, as usual w...

Victims of "Parking Rage"

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Bill Borwegen, health and safety Director of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) reminded me today that generally, when one thi...
Sunday, January 07, 2007

Surprise: Employer Finds "Worker Error" To Blame For Fatality

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Why is this not surprising? Employer investigates employee's death. And the cause is? Worker error, of course. Public employees, as we r...