In round numbers, fatal workplace accidents take the lives of about 4,000 Americans every year. That's 1,000 more people than died in the terrorist attacks on September, 2001. It's a lot of people's lives cut short - and a lot of families devastated. Neither workers'...
Employers are not supposed to retaliate against employees for filing workers' compensation claims or reporting workplace injuries. In Pennsylvania and across the country, however, workers naturally worry that employers will hold it against them for bringing a work...
By definition, combustible dust can explode. And when it happens in the workplace, it can cause severe injuries and even death. Death and serious injuries are precisely what happened five years ago at a sugar factory in Georgia. Fourteen workers were killed on the job...
The temptations for employers to cut corners on workplace safety are always there. They do not do as much as they should to create and maintain safe places to work. As a result, many employees get injured in work accidents that should have been prevented. Of course,...
The prevention of workplace fatalities is an activity whose importance speaks for itself. Every human life is precious, and it is an irretrievable loss when someone dies at work. Sometimes, when a workplace occurs, it is because the employee had a medical condition....
Working in a prison or jail is dangerous work. Attacks by inmates on staff can occur at any time, especially in high-security facilities. When an attack occurs, it is only natural for an injured correctional officer or other employee to wonder if they qualify for...
If you suffer a workplace injury, it is important that you get the workers' compensation you are eligible for. Regardless of how your work injury occurred - a construction accident, a repetitive stress injury, fall or in some other way - workers' comp benefits are...
It's been several months since we wrote about health risks to workers whose job are in the fracking industry. In our September 13 post, we discussed the dangers of exposure to silica sand. Such exposure can lead to chronic silicosis, which can take years to develop....
The very word "laboratory" comes from the Latin word for work. And indeed, in our society based to such a degree on science and various forms of research, many people work in research labs all week long - and are often put at risk of workplace injuries and illnesses....
Loss of limb, a partial amputation, or the loss of use of a body part - all of these are major challenges. The workers' compensation term that usually applies - "specific loss" - does not fully convey the hard reality involved in coping with these injuries. Hazelton,...