Death at SpaceX’s South Texas Facilities Prompts Workplace Safety Investigation May 20, 2026 By Berenice Garcia, The Texas Tribune The Occupational Safety and Health Administration is investigating an incident at SpaceX’s South Texas facilities that resulted in the death...
Texas Tank Cleaning Company Faces $800K Fine After Worker’s Fatal Injury July 11, 2024 A La Porte, Texas tank cleaning company faces over $800,000 in fines after the company allegedly disregarded federal safety standards...
Meat Plant Workers Being Denied Workers’ Compensation for COVID-19: Reuters September 29, 2020 By Tom Hals and Tom Polansek Saul Sanchez died in April, one of six workers with fatal COVID-19 infections at meatpacker JBS USA’s slaughterhouse in Greeley,...
Examining the Higher Death Rate for Older Workers: Viewpoint February 21, 2020 By Justin Fox, Bloomberg Opinion U.S. workplaces have gotten a lot safer over the course of the past century. In 1913, the Bureau of Labor...
Update: Crane Collapses at Eni’s Italian Offshore Oil Platform; Operator Killed March 5, 2019 One person died and two people were injured when a crane collapsed at an Italian offshore oil platform run by...
Wyoming Workplace Deaths Fall to Lowest Level Since 2009 December 20, 2018 The number of workplace deaths in Wyoming last year fell to the state’s lowest level since 2009. The Casper Star-Tribune...
10% of All Workplace Fatalities Due to Homicides April 9, 2018 Homicides accounted for 10 percent of all fatal occupational injuries in the United States in 2016, according to the Bureau...
Workplace Fatalities Continue to Increase, with Transportation Incidents #1 Cause December 27, 2017 There were 5,190 workplace fatalities reported in the U.S. in 2016, a seven percent increase over the previous year. According...
Unions Remind U.S.: 150 Workers Die Every Day from Job Injuries, Illnesses April 28, 2017 In 2015, 150 workers died from preventable work-related injuries and illnesses every day in the United States, on average, according...
Oregon Workplace Deaths Down in Second Quarter of 2015, Report Shows July 29, 2015 By Don Jergler Workplace deaths in Oregon for the second quarter of 2015 were down markedly from the previous quarter, possibly resuming a...