On behalf of Laputka, Bayless, Ecker & Cohn, PC | Oct 20, 2014 | Firm News, Industrial Workers' Compensation
A Pennsylvania garbage collector was killed at the beginning of his shift on Oct. 13. The fatal injury happened in Pittsburgh while the 29-year-old man sat in his parked vehicle in the area where refuse employees park while waiting for his coworkers to pick him up ....
On behalf of Laputka, Bayless, Ecker & Cohn, PC | Sep 25, 2014 | Firm News, Industrial Workers' Compensation
Around 1:15 p.m. on Sept. 18, a Pennsylvania Department of Transportation trucked rolled off the side of a road about 25 miles northwest of Pittsburgh, injuring three workers. The driver explained to the Brighton Township police that the truck rolled off the side of...
On behalf of Laputka, Bayless, Ecker & Cohn, PC | Aug 13, 2014 | Firm News, Industrial Workers' Compensation
In a report they released on Aug. 6, the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection concluded that a fatal gas well explosion was caused by the actions of an untrained and unsupervised contract worker. The explosion in Green County resulted in the death of...
On behalf of Laputka, Bayless, Ecker & Cohn, PC | Jul 17, 2014 | Firm News, Industrial Workers' Compensation
On Feb. 25, 2013, a temporary worker at a sugar plant in Pennsylvania was killed when he slipped into a hopper full of sugar. He was trying to get rid of clumps when the accident occurred. Thirteen days before the incident, the plant removed a screen designed for...
On behalf of Laputka, Bayless, Ecker & Cohn, PC | Jul 9, 2014 | Firm News, Industrial Workers' Compensation
An employee of a Pennsylvania firm was killed in work-related accident at a General Motors plant in the Midwest. The explosion, which occurred on July 1 at 1:50 p.m. in a factory in Indiana, also injured eight other people. Four of the injured people received...
On behalf of Laputka, Bayless, Ecker & Cohn, PC | May 27, 2014 | Firm News, Industrial Workers' Compensation
A workers’ compensation case has returned to trial court after a Pennsylvania appeals court reversed a summary judgment. After an electrical company employee filed suit for allegedly contracting mesothelioma on the job, the appeals court argued that the...
On behalf of Laputka, Bayless, Ecker & Cohn, PC | Mar 3, 2014 | Firm News, Industrial Workers' Compensation
Pennsylvania workers may have noted news of radiation exposure at a radioactive waste disposal plant. A radiation leak at the underground nuclear waste dump in New Mexico on Feb. 14 has impacted 13 workers who have tested positive for radiation exposure at elevated...
On behalf of Laputka, Bayless, Ecker & Cohn, PC | Feb 6, 2014 | Firm News, Industrial Workers' Compensation
On Jan. 31, an explosion at a factory in St. Mary’s resulted in the death of one individual and injuries to two others. The workplace injury incident occurred in the morning at a carbon and graphite manufacturing facility on Trout Run Road, and sources state...
On behalf of Laputka, Bayless, Ecker & Cohn, PC | Jan 21, 2014 | Firm News, Industrial Workers' Compensation
A 26-year-old man was injured while working at a Harrison Township, Pennsylvania, plant. The workplace injury occurred after a piece of equipment fell on top of the man while he was working. The accident occurred at about 4 p.m on Jan. 17 as the man was standing on...
On behalf of Laputka, Bayless, Ecker & Cohn, PC | Nov 26, 2013 | Firm News, Industrial Workers' Compensation
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court decided to allow the lawsuit filed by the wife a former employee of Armstrong World Industries to move forward on Nov. 18. The lawsuit claims that the Lancaster man sustained a workplace injury by being exposed to chemicals that...
