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Workplace Safety News: OSHA Inspections Drop; Fatal and Nonfatal Injuries at Longtime Low

Benita Mehta
Benita Mehta
March 13, 2026

Recent BLS data reveals fatal and nonfatal injuries have declined. Separately, OSHA inspections have dropped in 2025.


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Chemical Safety Board Investigating Fatal Explosion at Horizon Biofuels Facility in Nebraska

August 12, 2025

The blast killed three people – two young girls and an adult man – who were in the facility at the time of the incident.


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Memorial Day is the fourth most dangerous holiday for driver fatalities

New research reveals which national holidays are most fatal for American drivers
ISHN Staff
May 23, 2024

The research highlights the average number of fatalities that normally occur per month and per day of the month and compares these figures with the average number of fatalities during each national holiday. 


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Best Practices

How much is a human life worth?

An analysis of the ‘value of a statistical life’
Dan Markiewicz MS, CIH, CSP, RMP
August 18, 2023

To avoid the contentious debate of what an individual human life is truly worth, government agencies use the “Value of a Statistical Life.”


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OSHA calls on Amazon to improve severe weather emergency procedures following fatal warehouse collapse

Dec. 10, 2021, tornado fatally injured 6 contractors sheltering in place in Illinois warehouse
April 28, 2022
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Planning for the worst

Why every employer should know how to handle a workplace fatality

Danny Shields
May 28, 2020

“A goal without a plan is just a wish,” wrote Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, author of “The Little Prince.” In the midst of the pandemic, employers now more than ever need a plan in case an employee or contractor dies at the workplace.


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Survivors of a fatality can struggle for answers
Editor's Letter

Survivors of a fatality can struggle for answers

Dave Johnson
Dave Johnson
April 1, 2020
. Gene Hobbs was working for the Meade County Road Department, raking along the edge of a road shortly after noon, when he was run over by a dump truck backing up, killing him upon impact, on December 13, 2016.
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They achieved the impossible

Western Australian resources industry makes year without fatality
Rick Duley BSc(Hons)
March 21, 2013
Resources companies in Western Australia have achieved what many have worked for but no-one really believed would happen.


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