Workplace Injuries

• Federal Posting Requirements

  Robert Blanchard | November 21, 2007 9:50 AM | 0 CommentsPensacola, FL

  One impediment to an injured worker receiving fair compensation is the employee lack of knowledge about the laws an rules that apply in the workplace. If an injured worker does not know that there should be compensation for certain injuries (carpal tunnel syndrome, for example), the claim for benefits may not be timely filed. Interestingly, Federal law requires the posting of information about a...

• Warning: Watch Out for Black Friday

  Eddie Farah | November 21, 2007 6:33 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  The day after Thanksgiving is known as Black Friday- the day for stores to open their doors to bargain shoppers looking for holiday discounts.Two years ago it was more than a discount that Cecelia Brannen found. She and her husband were at the Wal-Mart in Starke trying to buy a laptop computer for their daughter.Cecelia was second in line, things looked good. Then she was pushed and pushed...

• Crane probe puts blame on steel base, source says

  Staff Writer | February 13, 2007 10:31 AM | 0 CommentsMiami, FL

  An unusual steel base probably caused a 210-foot tower crane to collapse in Bellevue last fall, killing a man, according to a source familiar with the state investigation. Investigators have determined that operator error was not a factor.The Seatle Times reported today that the state Department of Labor and Industries examined several other possible factors in the Nov. 16 accident including...

• Employer Retaliation Brings $6 Million Verdict

  Bob Carroll | May 18, 2006 2:21 PM | 0 CommentsTampa Bay, FL

  An injured worker is legally entitled to file a worker's compensation claim without fear of retaliation by his employer. Sometimes, however, the employer decides to retaliate by firing the injured employee or by taking some other adverse action. When that happens, the law provides for a cause of action against the employer. Ex-UPS driver to get $6 million over firing for being 'injury...

• Construction Accident Injures Washington Man

  Shannon Weidemann | September 29, 2007 9:02 PM | 0 CommentsTampa Bay, FL

  A construction accident in Tenino, Washington has left an 80-year-old man injured on Monday. He was working on an underground bunker being built there. He was injured in a fall from some scaffolding. The man was reportedly working on at eight-foot-tall scaffolding structure at the site on the 7000 block of Churchill Road Southeast around 1 p.m. when he fell and hit his head and neck on the...

• Governor Signs Bill Into Law: Employees Bring Your Concealed Weapons to Work

  Mike Damaso | April 17, 2008 12:32 PM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL

  Charlie Crist, who most of us thought was doing a pretty good job as Florida's Governor, has just signed a bill into law that allows more than 500,000 of Florida's concealed-weapons permit holders...

• Dirty Secret Behind Electrical Linemen Deaths

  Bob Carroll | January 07, 2006 2:02 AM | 0 CommentsTampa Bay, FL

  Mothers, don't send your boys to be linemen.An electrical lineman's job is clearly one of the most dangerous in the United States. But the real tragedy, according to veteran linemen, family members, attorneys, and even OSHA [U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration] investigators, is that many of those deaths and horrible injuries could and should have been...

• Miami Crane Collpase Kills Two and Injures Five

  Jenny Albano | March 25, 2008 6:55 PM | 0 CommentsMiami, FL

  A section of a crane fell at a downtown high-rise condominium construction site in Miami and killed two of the workers and injured another five. The crane fell onto a home that the contractor used for storage. At first another worker was thought to be missing, but was later identified as one of the inured workers.Canine's surveyed the site and did not find any other trapped people. But rescue...

• Another Florida Theme Park Employee Accident

  Ed Normand | October 16, 2009 4:00 PM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL

  Last night, the Orlando Fire Department was called out to Universal Studios in Orlando, Florida. An employee working on the Revenge of the Mummy ride fell from a ladder, and landed on a platform....

• Asbestos Cases Winding Down

  Robert Blanchard | September 14, 2006 10:29 AM | 0 CommentsPensacola, FL

  It has been an honor representing the many clients who found themselves injured by exposure to asbestos. Most were exposed in the workplace, working hard jobs as boilermakers, pipefitters and other jobs that were key to our country's industrialization and our success in World War II. Now with many of the offending companies out of business or just coming out of bankruptcy, most remaining claims...