If you haven’t heard, the feds just released a new online tool that allows users to search its database and view trends on workplace injuries occurring in states covered by federal OSHA. What Is the SIR Database? The new tool – OSHA’s Severe Injury Report (SIR) database – includes info on all severe workplace injuries […]
A newly released report indicates a high injury rate for clean energy workers in Texas. The report, which was created and released by the Texas Climate Jobs Project, Cornell University and a movement called Organized Power in Numbers, says one in four survey respondents reported either seeing or experiencing a work-related injury. The study examined […]
Federal fatality data revealed that work-related injuries resulted in the death of a worker every 96 minutes in the U.S. in 2022 compared to every 101 minutes the previous year. A report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) showed that there were 5,486 fatal work injuries in 2022, which was a 5.7% increase over […]
Not only is mining a dangerous job, it also leads to more health issues than other jobs involving manual and non-manual labor. National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) researchers found that 27.9% of the miners involved in the study suffered from high blood pressure. That was the highest percentage found among all the […]
New research shows that workers who manufacture per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) had the highest levels of exposure over the chemicals’ seven decades of use. However, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) researchers found that PFAS also affected workers as end-users in various occupations. Exposure to PFAS is associated with an increased risk […]
Twenty winners have been selected in the first phase of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) Respirator Fit Evaluation Challenge with a diverse range of fit-testing solutions. Technologies such as Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR), infrared imagery and thermal monitoring, fabric-based sensor networks, light sensing (LED), and an app that will combine […]
DuPont, 3M and other makers of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) knew the chemicals caused harm but didn’t sound the alarm, according to a report published in the Annals of Global Health. Company scientists ran tests with animals and noted laboratory rats with enlarged livers and dogs that died soon after exposure. As far back […]
Does it seem like chemical-related accidents are on the upswing? It’s not your imagination according to The Guardian, a British news outlet. “[A]ccidental releases – be they through train derailments, truck crashes, pipeline ruptures or industrial plant leaks and spills – are … occurring, on average, every two days. “The precise number of hazardous chemical […]
A new report shows the changing workplace has shifted the kinds of occupational diseases, such as musculoskeletal disorders and stress, that afflict thousands of workers in New York. Two researchers who run New York’s Upstate Medical University’s Occupational Health Clinic Center recently finished the first statewide look in 30 years at workplace impacts on disease […]
