worker safety

Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services data show 254 people died from heat-related causes between 2014 and 2026. About 6% of those deaths were listed as being related to occupational activities.

For more than twenty years, when Columbia’s pipes need to be replaced, the city has rehabilitated them instead through a method scientists now say could put workers in danger.

When Terry Cawthorn severely injured her back on the job, Mission Hospital refused to take responsibility — an attitude toward nurses that NPR found in hospitals across the U.S.