Death on the Job

{{short description|1991 film}}

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| director = Vince DiPersio
Bill Guttentag

| producer = Bill Guttentag
Nonny de la Peña

| writer = Bill Guttentag

| narrator = Joe Mantegna

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| distributor = Direct Cinema Limited

| released = {{film date|1991}}

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| country = United States

| language = English

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Death on the Job is a 1991 documentary film directed by Bill Guttentag. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.{{cite web |url=https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/300556/Death-on-the-Job/details |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090125121122/http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/300556/Death-on-the-Job/details |url-status=dead |archive-date=January 25, 2009 |department=Movies & TV Dept. |work=The New York Times |date=2009 |title=NY Times: Death on the Job |accessdate=November 19, 2008}} It aired on HBO as an episode of America Undercover.

The documentary focuses on people who have died at work due to unsafe conditions and disregard of regulations by the companies. Lawyer E. Michael McCann notes that OSHA is supposed to investigate workspaces to ensure safe conditions, but many of these places had rarely or never had an OSHA investigation (and when they did, it got announced in advance when OSHA was coming, so the company would change things to give the illusion of safety and compliance).