Worker safety Archives - Page 11 of 12

Exposed workers are dying, but business groups howl at the expense of prevention

Union pushes for protective laws and better decontamination practices

Logging was Oregon’s most fatal industry in 2011

Thirty-nine workers died in job-related accidents in Oregon in 2013.

If implemented, the proposed OSHA rule would protect 2 million exposed workers.

Silica sickens 3,600 a year, but the White House has halted an OSHA rule 38 years in the making

Michael Carpenter, age 33, was killed on the job March 15.

Oregon workers who died on the job last year will be remembered at ceremonies in Portland and Salem

A PIRG call center tosses ergonomic chairs and gives union workers stackable metal chairs to sit on

Hunger strikers demand GM take responsibility for injured workers in Colombia.