Workplace Injuries

• Employers must list injury and illness summaries

  Tom Methvin | October 13, 2006 4:36 PM | 0 CommentsMontgomery, AL

  Employers must now post a summary of the total number of job-related injuries and illnesses that occurred last year. The summary required to be filed must list the total number of job-related injuries and illnesses that occurred in 2005 and that were logged on the OSHA 300 form. Employment information about annual average number of employees and total hours worked during the calendar year is...

• Preventing falls of workers

  Tom Methvin | October 13, 2006 3:59 PM | 0 CommentsMontgomery, AL

  Beasley Allen Law Firm currently represents a man who worked for a company that installed communication satellites. Our client was contracted to install a communication satellite in a truck terminal in North Alabama. Our client and his co-worker had never installed a satellite dish on top of a structure, but instead had always installed the dishes on the side of the building. Because this...

• CSX Asking For New Trial In Solvent Case

  Lee Coleman | October 09, 2006 3:18 PM | 0 CommentsBowling Green, KY

  CSX Transportation is alleging that the jury was prejudiced due to news coverage and is asking for a new trial in the case where a Corbin man won a 1.8 million award in his claim that his brain was damaged by solvents he used on his job. The article in the Courier Journal was about research that showed solvents used to clean by railroad workers in the past had shrunk the bridge of the brain,...

• Thousands Flee Toxic Chemical Explosion In North Carolina

  Ricky Bagolie | October 06, 2006 1:44 PM | 0 CommentsJersey City, NJ

  A massive chemical fire has forced thousands to flee their homes in Apex, North Carolina, just outside Raleigh. The explosion took place at the EQ Industrial Services plant late Thursday and the fires and explosions continue.According to the Houston Chronical:EQ Industrial Services handles a wide array of industrial waste, from paints to solvents, and houses chemicals such as chlorine,...

• Hazardous Waste Plant Fire Evacuates Half of Apex, NC

  Staff Writer | October 06, 2006 10:46 AM | 0 CommentsColumbia, SC

  Fellow InjuryBoard blogger, Charles Monnett in Charlotte, has a great post about this morning's chemical fire in Apex, NC. Over half the city had to be evacuated as chlorine and other hazardous gasses lingered over the city in a cloud of noxious smoke. The city is located about 10 miles from Raleigh, and many people, mostly residents of a nursing home, have been admitted to local hospitals with...

• Medicare Recovery Procedure and Workers' Comp

  Ricky Bagolie | October 06, 2006 2:30 AM | 0 CommentsJersey City, NJ

  Medicare receipients have had to wait to receive their workers' comp benefits due to delays in the Medicare Secondary Payer investigation. Hopefully, that will change.The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is consolidating all of the functions and workloads related to Medicare Secondary Payer post-payment recoveries into one recovery contract. The contract for the new national MSP...

• Louisville Metro Employee Dies In Work Accident

  Lee Coleman | October 04, 2006 12:07 PM | 0 CommentsBowling Green, KY

  The Courier Journal reported that a Louisville Metro Public Works employee died Saturday after an injury accident on Sept. 25th. The employee was in a bucket truck hanging a sign when the driver of the truck moved forward, pinning the employee against the walkway, the worker fell to the ground sustaining injuries that he later died from at University Hospital.

• Forklifts Running Wild

  Bob Carroll | September 27, 2006 7:59 PM | 0 CommentsPinellas, FL

  My Workplace Safety headlines the serious injuries and deaths which are related to forklifts on work sites. Forklifts and Warehouses: a dangerous combination in the WorkplaceEach year in the United States, nearly 100 workers are killed and another 20,000 are seriously injured in forklift-related incidents.Most forklift related fatalities occur when a worker is crushed by a forklift that has...

• Just How Unfair Is Workers' Compensation?

  Bob Carroll | September 27, 2006 3:31 AM | 0 CommentsPinellas, FL

  I am an attorney old enough to know that for more than 30 years the rights and benefits of workers under workers' compensation in the State of Florida have steadily declined. The question is, how long can we continue to call the system fair? Now we have a report brought to our attention by Confined Space which details the failure of workers' compensation throughout the entire country.Workers...

• Another Construction Worker Falls To Death

  Bob Carroll | September 26, 2006 11:27 AM | 0 CommentsPinellas, FL

  How many times do construction workers have to fall to their deaths before proper guardrails or other barriers are put in place? The St. Petersburg Times reports another worker has died after a fall of some 10 stories.Construction worker dies in 10-story fall off liftA construction worker fell to his death Monday morning from the 10th floor of a condominium complex.Howard Theriot, 31, of St....