Worker safety

A flag to fly to support construction worker safety

A thin green line flag could be displayed to remember workers hurt on the job.

Training for a rescue at 50 feet

Theater and concert workers often spend time at great heights — hoisting gear at rock concerts or setting up and operating truss-mounted spotlights. Their union is working to improve members’ readiness to quickly rescue a coworker in the event of an accident.

Industrial Athlete campaign to launch at Intel jobsite

The campaign will focus on improving health in the construction industry, which is disproportionately affected by heart disease and stroke.

Longview dock worker killed when ship line snapped

One other worker was killed, and two injured.

Remembering workers who died on the job

Attending the NW Oregon Labor Council's Workers Memorial Day service were nearly 50 family members of a road construction flagger who was struck and killed by a drunk driver May 23, 2017.

The Trump administration’s record on worker safety

Progress on safety has halted, and safety programs have been targeted for elimination.

On-the-job fatalities in Oregon in 2017

Forty-eight Oregon workers lost their lives on the job last year. Here are their names.

What to do (and what not to do) if you’re injured on the job

In Oregon and Washington, you have rights, and help is available.

Questions for Jordan Barab

Jordan Barab, a longtime union safety expert, was number two at OSHA under Obama. He’s not happy about the way things have gone under Trump.

Time to ban asbestos? Merkley and Bonamici think so

Decades after asbestos insulation was banned, the fibers are still in many legal products in America.

America’s most dangerous jobs

Three of the top 10 are in construction.

Making roadway construction zones safer

More roadway construction workers are killed each year by construction equipment and vehicles than by on-road vehicles. How can we make it safer?

FedEx executive will be Trump’s new OSHA chief

Scott Mugno got the thumbs up from a Senate Committee in a party-line vote Dec. 13.

OSHA fines Ross Island Bridge paint contractor $189,000 for safety violations that led to near-fatal accident

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.

Union ceremony remembers workers who died on the job

Sixty-six Oregon workers lost their lives to preventable accidents in 2016.

UNSAFE AT WORK

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.

Six questions for labor’s top workplace safety expert

Peg Seminario, the AFL-CIO’s director of occupational safety and health, is a nationally recognized expert on worker safety.

On-the-job Fatalities in Oregon in 2016

The list of workers killed on the job in Oregon in 2016 — from Oregon-OSHA reports, workers’ comp data, and newspaper accounts.

Long after the flames, firefighters at risk from cancer chemicals

The Fire Fighters union is sounding the alarm about the cancer-causing after-effects of fire.

On-the-job fatalities in Oregon increase

One of last year's on-the-job deaths was a union organizer killed in a car crash.

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