Workplace Injuries

• Maintenance and Cure

  Mike Myers | July 29, 2011 5:56 PM | 0 CommentsSeattle, WA

  Ninety nine percent of fisherman and seafood processors don't receive workers compensation. Instead they receive maintenance and cure. Maintenance is meant to cover living expenses that the sick...

• Construction Worker Almost Loses Leg After Being Crushed by Falling Rock

  Jackie Fedeli | July 28, 2011 3:31 PM | 0 CommentsCentral Pennsylvania, PA

  A Philadelphia area construction worker almost lost his leg this afternoon when a large rock fell on his leg while working on the Lafayette Building around 5th and Chestnut Streets in the Center...

• OSHA Finds Death of Worker Result of Sawmill’s Failure to Follow Safety Standards

  Paul Napoli | July 27, 2011 11:20 PM | 1 CommentNew York City, NY

  July 27, 2011 A New York sawmill has been cited for alleged serious violations of workplace safety standards and fined $152,100 by government safety inspectors following an investigation of a...

• Report - Cancer Excluded From 9/11 Fund

  Chrissie Cole | July 27, 2011 11:51 AM | 0 CommentsNew York City, NY

  In a recently released report, federal officials from National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, determined there is not yet enough evidence to add cancers to the list of diseases...

• Five Basic Considerations your Builder/Employer Should be Enforcing on the Residential Job-site

  Jeffrey Downs | July 27, 2011 9:47 AM | 0 CommentsPhoenix, AZ

  The leading cause of injury and death in the residential construction industry occurs when workers fall from elevation on the work site. The lack of proper fall protection is cited as the leading...

• Workplace Injuries - Who Comes Under Fire?

  Mike Myers | July 25, 2011 1:22 PM | 0 CommentsSeattle, WA

  The Seattle Times ran a story about a construction worker injured at the Boeing Everett plant. A man working on a construction project at the Boeing Everett plant was seriously injured in an...

• OSHA Rescinds Interim Fall Protection Standard for Residential Construction

  Jeffrey Downs | July 20, 2011 12:06 PM | 0 CommentsPhoenix, AZ

  Is this too little too late? Effective June 16, 2011, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (“OSHA”) makes fall protection requirements in residential construction more...

• Even Superheroes Need Fall Protection On The Job

  Jeffrey Downs | July 13, 2011 2:32 PM | 0 CommentsCentral Pennsylvania, PA

  A Spiderman stunt double in the Broadway musical, Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark was hospitalized last year after he fell approximately 30 feet through the stage floor at New York’s Foxwoods...

• Man Crushed by Concrete Divider at New Jersey Turnpike Construction Site

  Paul Napoli | July 11, 2011 7:45 PM | 1 CommentNew York City, NY

  July 11, 2011 A truck driver delivering concrete dividers to a construction site for the New Jersey turnpike died today when one of the dividers fell off the truck, crushing him. State police told...

• Dissociative Identity Disorder and Social Security Disability

  Melissa Landau | July 08, 2011 12:08 PM | 3 CommentsFairfax, Leesburg & Loudoun, VA

  Happy Social Security clients often write to us to tell us how we have helped, what solutions we have offered that worked and what benefits they have received from the Federal, State and local...