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...
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...
Pennsylvania workers may wonder what jobs are associated with the most risk and how much individuals are compensated to do them. The Bureau of Labor Statistics has provided data that answers this question. Some jobs are inherently more dangerous than others. The BLS...
Pennsylvania workers may be interested in a recent bulletin issued by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration outlining safety precautions for workers in the tree-care industry. The bulletin focuses on preventable accidents, especially those involving falls...
Authorities said that a scaffolding accident at a warehouse in the Pennsylvania township of East Deer left five workers with injuries. The June 16 workplace incident reportedly occurred at about 9:30 a.m. at a self-storage facility on Treadway Lane, where workers from...
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration recently announced that the federal agency has launched a probe into a fatality at the Amazon Fulfillment Center in Carlisle. The workplace accident transpired on June 1, when a 52-year-old female employee died while...
A construction worker suffered serious injuries on the job when a slab weighing 3,000 pounds fell on him. On May 28, the worker settled his workplace injury lawsuit against the general contractor responsible for the site and three other defendants for $16.3 million....
On May 5 at around 5:30 p.m., a young female employee was working at a restaurant in the Park Town Shopping Center and was accidentally burnt by hot oil that was somehow spilled on 30 percent of her body, burning her head and other body parts. How the accident...
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 Workers'...
A man who was working at a construction site in Somerset County lost his life on May 5. The workplace injury occurred after a concrete barrier fell on him. The accident occurred as a construction crew was in the process of installing concrete manholes on Park Street...