Worker safety

The disease can strike anyone exposed, even someone who teaches good safety practices to others.

Job-related deaths are on the rise in Oregon and throughout the United States.

Most of the hazards that led to severe injuries could easily have been prevented.

Kevin Billman of UFCW and IBEW Local 48 staff attorney Diana Winther are nominees for MLAC.

All around the country, state legislatures are whittling away at workers’ comp systems

Republican lawmakers and business interests have pushed to cut benefits to save on premiums

Some of the savings are, literally, on the backs of workers.

Thousands of workers may have been exposed to radiation

Six years after Obama took office, workers are still waiting for protection from deadly dust.

OSHA is investigating why a 35-foot beam detached and pierced the cab of his crane

The newly formed Oregon group is a chapter of a national organization

The bonus checks are a way to honor the best-trained workforce in the industry

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

Logging and fishing top the list.

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