workplace deaths
Don Blankenship, CEO of Massey Energy and one of the most detestable and immoral people living in the United States, was finally indicted for a few of his many crimes.
The coal industry has never cared about keeping workers alive. It still doesn't. And even when the companies are fined for their horrible workplace safety, some just refuse to pay,.
It's hardly shocking that the difficult conditions of modern work would lead to a rise in workplace violence as people, who often have access to high-powered weapons, snap. The workers.
Excellent Dallas Morning News expose on dangerous work in the Texas construction industry. More workers die here than in any other state. On average, a Texas worker is 12 percent.
Worker deaths in the energy industry have risen dramatically over the past five years because of the oil and fracking booms. That's not necessary though. Better worker training would cut.
Colin Long's Jacobin essay on visiting the Tarzeen and Rana Plaza factory disaster sites is all worth reading, but the important part of the article is his discussion of the.
North Dakota, thanks to an oil industry that continues to shirk on workplace safety. According to the AFL-CIO, the most dangerous U.S. state for workers is North Dakota, which the.
I have a piece up at Bill Moyers' site connecting the exploitation that led to the Ludlow Massacre of 1914 with coal companies exploitation of labor and degradation of nature.