Workplace Injuries

• Penalty for Lack of Workers' Compensation Insurance Determined by Law in North Carolina

  Margaret Embry | June 24, 2009 11:27 AM | 0 CommentsFayetteville, NC

  A former employee of a car wash in North Carolina has sued the car wash business for workers' compensation benefits for injuries sustained in a slip-and-fall accident, according to Risk &...

• Fayetteville's Wiener Works Restaurant Employee Injured In Shooting

  Rick Shapiro | June 23, 2009 12:09 AM | 0 CommentsGreenville, OBX & Rocky Mount, NC

  Recently, during the evening shift at a popular Fayetteville, N.C. restaurant, Wiener Works, an employee was shot in the lower back suffering a serious injury during an attempted...

• Will Dangerous Ammonia Refrigeration Systems be Phased Out?

  John Cooper | June 20, 2009 8:47 PM | 4 CommentsNorfolk, Portsmouth & Hampton, VA

  Every year ammonia refrigeration systems cause accidents and explosions in large commercial factories across the United States. Although large companies are aware of the risks of using ammonia...

• Revisiting the Slim Jim Plant Explosion; Southern Industrial Constructors Investigated As Possible Culprit

  Jim Lewis | June 19, 2009 2:14 PM | 0 CommentsGreenville, OBX & Rocky Mount, NC

  Under closer investigation Southern Industrial Constructors has been sued by two workers injured in a deadly explosion at a Slim Jim plant in North Carolina. The company insists it does...

• Construction Worker Falls 50 Feet To His Death

  Chrissie Cole | June 18, 2009 10:01 PM | 0 CommentsIndianapolis, IN

  A construction worker fell to his death at site of the new Convention Center in Downtown Indianapolis on Wednesday. Stanley Roberts, 55, was operating a boom lift, a mobile basket crane, when it...

• Window Washer Falls to His Death in Grand Rapids

  Devon Glass | June 18, 2009 2:11 PM | 0 CommentsLansing, MI

  Grand Rapids—this Wednesday, a 21-year-old window washer fell to his death from the roof of the Grand Rapids Art Museum. The Michigan Occupational and Health Administration is investigating...

• Scaffolding Collapses in the news, how often does it happen?

  Steve Lombardi | June 18, 2009 10:43 AM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  How common is a scaffolding collapse on a construction site? Brooks Schuelke and Wayne Parsons posted about the June 10, 2009 21 Rio Condo scaffolding collapse in Austin, Texas and it...

• The Jones Act Provides Benefits for Injured Workers on the Ohio River

  Karl Truman | June 17, 2009 8:37 AM | 1 CommentLouisville, KY

  In late April the body of newly hired deckhand Michael Harvey was found floating off the coast of the Ohio River. The incident occurred on April 6, 2009. It was reported that the deckhand was...

• At Least Two Dead in ConAgra’s Slim Jim Plant Explosion in Garner, North Carolina (N.C.)

  Jim Lewis | June 16, 2009 6:56 PM | 0 CommentsGreenville, OBX & Rocky Mount, NC

  Authorities have found the bodies of two people in the rubble of a Garner, North Carolina (N.C.) Slim Jim meat products plant that was jolted by an explosion. Local Police Sgt. Joe Binns...

• Virginia's Workers Compensation Law: Death on the Job Must be Immediate!

  Doug Landau | June 16, 2009 2:26 PM | 0 CommentsFairfax, Leesburg & Loudoun, VA

  At Abrams Landau we represent multiple workers and families of workers injured and sometimes killed at work. Though Worker's compensation was established to protect and provide for benefits to the...