Workplace Injuries

• Injury, Death When Boom Lift Falls In Kansas City Crane Accident

  Brett Emison | November 10, 2009 5:27 PM | 3 CommentsKansas City, MO

  The Kansas City Star reported that one man was killed and another critically injured when a boom lift or crane toppled over this afternoon at the site of Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts in...

• 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...

• 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...

• Man killed in plant explosion, sparks or static electricity?

  Steve Lombardi | November 18, 2009 12:01 PM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  In Columbia County, Wisconsin a 47 year old man died Sunday October 18th, in an explosion in the American Packaging Corporation plant, according to the Wisconsin State Journal news source. Jeffrey...

• Workers' Compensation: Injuries up and payouts down - hmm, something doesn't sound right.

  Megan Roth | April 17, 2009 1:45 PM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  Middle of the night and I’m wide-awake – go figure. I was just surfing the internet when, at random, an article popped up that grabbed my interest. “Construction Up, Injuries...

• Hoover Dam bypass clean-up after crane collapse

  Staff Writer | January 30, 2007 11:38 AM | 0 CommentsDenver, CO

  On September 15, 2006, high winds caused two 280-foot-tall steel cranes to collapse in a major construction accident at the site of the $234 million Hoover Dam bypass project. This week, a crew of divers is working to clean up the debris from the Colorado River. A story in Central Utah's Daily Herald details the construction accident that caused $50 million in damages and set back the project's...

• Texas A&M construction site at Zarzamora St. and Loop 410 Ditch Collapse

  Steve Lombardi | November 16, 2009 11:01 PM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  A 45-year-old construction worker was in a construction site ditch while co-workers were removing a tree. As they pulled the tree out the ditch collapsed trapping the man in the ditch and burying...

• Employers That Provide Blackberries to Employees Must Prohibit Texting While Driving or Face Liability

  Jack Landskroner | March 24, 2007 10:32 PM | 0 CommentsCleveland, OH

  The Workers Comp Insider Blog raises a very interesting and concerning work related issue in its posting March 16, 2007 concerning employee use of Blackberry or cellular devises and the practice of texting while driving. As if we don't have enough distractions as we hurtle ourselves from Point A to Point B in four ton vehicles, we read that DWT - driving while texting - has become an issue of...

• The Great Insurance Lie?

  Greg Jones | November 13, 2009 10:46 AM | 1 CommentCharlotte, NC

  Have a worker’s compensation case? Let me guess, the adjuster has told you there is no reason to hire a lawyer because worker’s comp benefits are limited and you’ll only end up...

• Injuries in the Workplace are Often Swept Under the Rug

  Rick Shapiro | November 12, 2009 12:11 AM | 0 CommentsGreenville, OBX & Rocky Mount, NC

  For some reason work related injuries are somehow disregarded and not given enough legal attention and there are many logical reasons for this. More than likely it is because workers and /or...