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 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 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 | Dec 18, 2014 | Firm News, Workplace Accidents
As Pennsylvania farmers may know, the occupational agriculture may involve some risk of injury, and in some cases, the injuries may be fatal. Furthermore, because many families live on their farms, teenagers are frequently employed in the agriculture industry, and the...
On behalf of Laputka, Bayless, Ecker & Cohn, PC | Dec 11, 2014 | Firm News, Workplace Accidents
Police reported that a 60-year-old road construction superintendent was hit by an SUV and died on Dec. 3. According to reports, the accident occurred on Route 422 just after 11 p.m. in the westbound lanes of the highway in North Coventry Township near the...
On behalf of Laputka, Bayless, Ecker & Cohn, PC | Nov 20, 2014 | Firm News, Workplace Accidents
A subsidiary of Reading company Vossloh North America received seven citations for an accident that occurred in the company’s Cleveland manufacturing plant. The Cleveland subsidiary manufactures railroad tracks. The incident, which occurred on Aug. 21, killed a...
On behalf of Laputka, Bayless, Ecker & Cohn, PC | Nov 14, 2014 | Firm News, Workplace Accidents
Every year, Pennsylvanians lose their lives as a result of work-related accidents. When such an accident occurs, the families of those who are killed due to a work accident may wonder if they can seek compensation for the loss of their loved one. Pennsylvania’s...
On behalf of Laputka, Bayless, Ecker & Cohn, PC | Nov 10, 2014 | Firm News, Workplace Accidents
Employees in Pennsylvania may benefit from learning more about worker’s compensation and the remedies available for injuries suffered at the job. While many injured employees are able to receive worker’s compensation, many face challenges when returning to...
