Posted with permission from Confined Space, a newsletter of workplace safety and labor issues
Note that there are 39 fatalities listed here, going back, more or less, for about a week. There are an average of 13 workers killed every day on the job in the United States, which means the list below only covers about one-quarter of the workers actually killed on the job over the last week. I’m mainly dependent on news articles that arrive via Google Alerts, so any fatality that doesn’t merit a news article, probably won’t make the list.