On behalf of Laputka, Bayless, Ecker & Cohn, PC | Feb 23, 2015 | Firm News, Workplace Accidents
On Feb. 17, a worker in Pennsylvania died on the job after he fell from a bucket truck. At the time of the accident, the 48-year-old man from Mt. Pleasant had been using a saw to trim tree branches in North Versailles. The fatal accident took place along Hawthorne...
On behalf of Laputka, Bayless, Ecker & Cohn, PC | Feb 17, 2015 | Firm News, Workplace Injuries
Many workers in Pennsylvania are injured every year while on the job. While some injuries are obvious, others, such as those resulting from years of exposure to vibration, may not be. Long-term exposure to vibration, from handheld tools to repetitive motions, can...
On behalf of Laputka, Bayless, Ecker & Cohn, PC | Feb 10, 2015 | Firm News, Workplace Accidents
The makeup of today’s workforce is rapidly changing, both in terms of gender and ethnicity. The increased diversity of today’s workers has led to a serious safety issue. In that past, the workforce was relatively homogeneous. That meant that most workers...
On behalf of Laputka, Bayless, Ecker & Cohn, PC | Feb 4, 2015 | Firm News, Workplace Accidents
According to a report from the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, 350 workers were killed by collapsing trenches nationwide between 2000 and 2009. This amounted to a rate of 35 fatalities a year. NIOSH says that 64 percent of all trench deaths that...
On behalf of Laputka, Bayless, Ecker & Cohn, PC | Jan 27, 2015 | Firm News, Workplace Injuries
There are an estimated 16 million people who work in manufacturing around the United States, which represents 13 percent of the overall workforce. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, hearing loss is one of the most common types of occupational illness in the...
On behalf of Laputka, Bayless, Ecker & Cohn, PC | Jan 21, 2015 | Firm News, Workplace Injuries
Pennsylvania workers may know that road construction sites might be a dangerous place. Although the majority of worker fatalities involve individuals working at a specific construction site, others moving through the area also get killed in accidents. Adherence to...
On behalf of Laputka, Bayless, Ecker & Cohn, PC | Jan 14, 2015 | Firm News, Workplace Accidents
Authorities are presuming that a Pennsylvania worker is dead following a silo collapse on Jan. 8. The workplace accident took place in Bristol Township in Bucks County while the victim was working at a silo that held concrete production materials. Around 4:30 a.m.,...
On behalf of Laputka, Bayless, Ecker & Cohn, PC | Jan 7, 2015 | Firm News, Workplace Accidents
The Occupational Health and Safety Administration recently announced that it cited a Pennsylvania amusement park for failure to properly protect its employees from bodily harm related to heat exposure. The citation includes a financial penalty and represents the...
On behalf of Laputka, Bayless, Ecker & Cohn, PC | Jan 2, 2015 | Firm News, Workplace Injuries
According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than 13 million individuals could potentially be exposed at their jobs to chemicals that are absorbed by skin. This is an especially salient issue for the many Pennsylvania residents employed in...
On behalf of Laputka, Bayless, Ecker & Cohn, PC | Dec 29, 2014 | Firm News, Workplace Injuries
A Pennsylvania company was investigated for serious safety violations after several of its employees injured their fingers or had them amputated as a result of workplace accidents. In June 2014, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration initiated a review of...
