A North Mississippi farm worker died of extreme heat exposure in early September amid one of the hottest summers in recent state history.

Florida Orange Gold has exposed workers on H-2A visas to extreme heat, but continues to bring hundreds of migrants to North Carolina

Trump's Nuclear Regulatory Commission has issued a proposed regulation that will increase worker exposure to cancer-causing radiation.

Over half of 260 workplace child fatalities between 2013 and 2023 lacked data on cause of death or the industry worked

Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

New hires and comments in interviews show that the AI giant is using its capabilities against dissenters.

House Republicans held a hearing yesterday about small business concerns. But it was really a campaign add disguised as a hearing. The circus goes on.

This story was originally published by Public Health Watch. Respiratory therapist Marcy Freeman doesn’t need a research study to confirm for her a return to the dark days of coal mining. She finds evidence in a stack of more than 150 funeral programs, all for former patients at her pulmonary rehabilitation clinic in Norton, Virginia. “Each one of these represents a life that’s gone because of black lung,” Freeman explained as she flipped through the programs, recognizing names and images.

Over 600 workers who fashion processed quartz into stone countertops have sued Minnesota-based Cambria and other stone makers after getting diagnosed with a disease called silicosis. The companies den...

Prescribed fire releases a complex mixture of volatile and semi-volatile organic compounds to the environment. Firefighters are directly exposed to these hazardous mixtures through occupational activi...

ChatGPT prompts show how an expert witness report was created in a $61 million lawsuit over an explosion that killed three people.

House Education and Workforce Committee Ranking Member Bobby Scott, D-Va., is pressing for a September hearing to examine what staffing losses and leadership vacancies mean for agencies responsible fo...

Their proposals range from a new agency to overhauling federal workers’ pay.

Rates are now the highest they've been in nearly 50 years among veteran coal miners. Mining experts blame toxic silica dust, now more common in mines.

Rates are now the highest they've been in nearly 50 years among veteran coal miners. Mining experts blame toxic silica dust, now more common in mines.

It's now as bad as it was in the 1970s, with thousands of miners sick and dying.

Chronic reactivation of distinct herpesviruses and anelloviruses occur during acute and long COVID-19, and track with disease severity, inflammation and outcomes, revealing immune signatures with prog...

The Biden administration took steps to shield workers from extreme temperatures. The Trump administration is taking a gentler approach with employers.

Last Friday, the Department of Labor (DOL) quietly suspended enforcement of its 2024 rule which strengthened protections for farmworkers recruited to work in the United States through the H-2A agricul...