“Every day there are workers who don’t come home to their families because of tragedies we know could have been prevented,” Marcy Goldstein-Gelb, co-executive director of National COSH, said in a statement. “This year, we’ll identify several companies who received specific warnings about safety hazards and failed to correct them. Workers paid the ultimate price for these failures.”
To compile the report, entitled “The Dirty Dozen 2018,” National COSH pulled its information from health and safety activists and looked at “severity of injuries to workers; exposure to unnecessary and preventable risk; repeat citations by relevant state and federal authorities; and activity by workers to improve their health and safety conditions” to decide which companies to include. The report notes that oftentimes these injuries and deaths are preventable given effective health and safety measures.
