Occupational safety and health. Workplace toxins. Ergonomics. Asbestos. Hearing loss. Safety.
Three of the top 10 are in construction.
More roadway construction workers are killed each year by construction equipment and vehicles than by on-road vehicles. How can we make it safer?
Scott Mugno got the thumbs up from a Senate Committee in a party-line vote Dec. 13.
After an accident that seriously injured two workers in a 37′ fall, OSHA levies its biggest fine in more than five years, saying contractor Abhe & Svoboda knowingly put workers at risk.
Sixty-six Oregon workers lost their lives to preventable accidents in 2016.
At the ODOT bridge contractor where a 40-foot fall sent two workers to the hospital, at least four former employees say they were let go after complaining of dangerous work conditions.
Peg Seminario, the AFL-CIO’s director of occupational safety and health, is a nationally recognized expert on worker safety.
The list of workers killed on the job in Oregon in 2016 — from Oregon-OSHA reports, workers’ comp data, and newspaper accounts.
The Fire Fighters union is sounding the alarm about the cancer-causing after-effects of fire.
One of last year’s on-the-job deaths was a union organizer killed in a car crash.
