No one wants to be injured at the workplace. We know it can happen and we do our best to avoid them, but you can’t always prevent the negligence of the employers and other workers around you. When it does happen, a personal injury lawsuit is a powerful tool at your...
In the state of Pennsylvania, workers' compensation insurance can represent a large cost for many small- to medium-sized private businesses. Especially in this competitive insurance market, many companies feel the crunch of this necessary safeguard. The Pennsylvania...
Workers’ compensation is part of doing business in Pennsylvania. Whether you have a small, medium or large business in the Keystone State, you likely must purchase workers’ compensation insurance. While keeping your workers safe is likely a top priority, you do not...
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 workplace accident took place along...
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...
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 had the same...
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...
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...
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...
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.,...