On Oct. 2, the Reading Fire Department worked to extricate a construction worker who had temporarily been trapped under a significant quantity of building debris. The man had been working on repairing a drainage system inside a carport on Mineral Spring Road when the...
Nurses and other medical workers in Pennsylvania such as orderlies and aides are more prone to musculoskeletal injuries than any other occupation, and the risk of workplace injury caused in many cases by having to lift patients is increasing. While the Occupational...
Sufferers of black lung disease in Pennsylvania and elsewhere are about to get some much-needed relief from the government. The Office of Workers' Compensation Program of the U. S. Department of Labor has finished implementing the rules changes required by Senator...
Pennsylvania construction workers are well aware that their occupation is a risky one. According to the U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA has reported that in 2011 there were 738 on-the-job fatalities as a result of construction accidents. Falls, electrocutions, workers...
An employee working in Waynesboro was killed on Aug. 29 in an industrial accident. The decedent was working for an industrial plant that provides cranes and other lifting equipment. Pennsylvania State Police issued a news release naming the victim and describing the...
A man died in an industrial accident in Shippenville on Aug. 23. The workplace injury occurred while the man was working on a piece of machinery. Clarion Hospital Emergency Medical Services responded to the scene of the accident. The site of the fatal workplace...
A resident of Pennsylvania is suing CSX Transportation, his employer, for injuries he sustained from falling into a sunken bit of ground in the parking lot while on the job. In August 2011, the man was walking from a walkway to the parking lot when he fell into the...
According to Allsup, a provider of Social Security Disability Insurance representation, Pennsylvania's rate for workplace injuries is higher than the national average. Pennsylvania's injury rate is 0.8 injuries requiring at least a temporary job transfer or...
A candy factory in the Pittsburgh area is facing an $87,260 fine. The fine for alleged workplace safety violations was initiated following an investigation by the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration. In February of this year, a machine in the factory...
A tree-trimmer who worked for a subcontractor of an electric utility company was killed on the job on Saturday, July 28, 2013, in Bethlehem. The maintenance occurs there annually in advance of a local music festival. While he was trimming along the towpath underneath...