On June 8, 1917, the Speculator Mine in Granite Mountain, near Butte, Montana, caught on fire. 168 miners died in the largest death toll in American history for a hard-rock.
Who? Probably a Latino immigrant or someone working for the fossil fuel industry. Latino workers remain among the most vulnerable, with a job fatality rate about 9 percent higher.
On March 30, 1930, the Hawk's Nest tunnel project near Gauley Bridge, West Virginia began. This tunnel was designed to divert the New River to help Union Carbide increase its.
You may not be surprised that the combination of non-union worksites and a weak regulatory enforcement structure kills construction workers: Most construction sites where workers died failed to take basic.
On November 26, 1910, a factory building in Newark, New Jersey caught on fire, killing 25 textile workers. This should have been a call to arms for workplace safety reform,.
Michell McIntyre makes a strong case around one of my most important issues--the need to punish employers far more harshly for workers who die at their worksites. During one of.
Last week, the U.S. Department of Labor released its preliminary numbers of deaths in American workplaces. 4,679 workers died in 2014, a number that will almost certainly be revised higher.
Jamie Smith Hopkins has a long story on methylene chloride, a chemical used for paint-stripping and carpet gluing that has an unfortunate tendency to kill the people using it. It's.
