5,190 workers were killed on the job in 2016, up from 4,836 in 2015, with an additional 50-60,000 deaths from occupational diseases that same year, MarketWatch reports. Those numbers come from a new report released Thursday by the AFL-CIO, entitled “Death on the Job, the Toll of Neglect, 2018.” Between the two figures a total of 150 workers […]
