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The Aug. 11 workplace accident sent a metal bar through a City of Portland maintenance worker’s stomach.

The Washington Department of Labor and Industries ‘Ideas Bank’ has ergonomics hacks for every industry.

A City of Portland maintenance worker was impaled by a metal bar at work. His union has launched a fundraiser to support him as he recovers.

Because of toxins in burning buildings, cancer deaths for firefighters are considered to be deaths in the line of duty.

Washington’s child welfare workers are at high risk for physical assault and burnout, and the program’s leader is to blame, says WFSE.

It’s going to keep getting hotter. And workers need to know how to stay safe in heat.

Cascadia Behavioral Health employee Haley Rogers, a member of AFSCME Local 1790-4, was stabbed to death July 16 by one of her patients.

Washington state’s workplace safety agency has proposed a new rule to protect outdoor workers from wildfire smoke.

A bill to toughen OSHA penalties is on its way to Governor Kotek’s desk after committee room drama and a failed GOP attempt to gut the bill.

SB 907 passed out of the state Senate with a bipartisan 21-8 vote on April 13 and is now being taken up in the House.