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Liz Day is ProPublica's Director of Research. She previously worked in research for NBC Universal and as a Carnegie Fellow with the investigative unit at ABC News. She has written for Time Out New York, The Brooklyn Paper, the Discovery Channel and Gawker Media. She is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

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Built for a Simpler Era, OSHA Struggles When Tower Climbers Die

May 24, 12:13 p.m.

Fifty men have died in accidents on cell sites since 2003, but federal workplace safety regulators have few tools and little will to impose consequences on the companies that count on their labor.

In Race For Better Cell Service, Men Who Climb Towers Pay With Their Lives

May 22, 10:52 a.m.

Corporate giants have outsourced the dangerous work of building and maintaining communications towers to tiny subcontracting companies. Over the last nine years, nearly 100 workers have died, 50 of them on cell sites.

Methodology: How We Calculated the Tower Industry Death Rate

May 21, 5:41 p.m.

How we calculated deaths per 100,000 workers for the tower industry using OSHA’s methodology.

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