Missouri updates in category: Workplace Injuries

A construction worker on a job site at Fort Bliss in Texas was killed on Friday. The construction accident involved a C.F. Jordan employee and not a member of the military. The victim was hit by a concrete block. Fort Bliss firefighters responded to the incident, which happened about 9:30 a.m. at a construction site on Biggs Army Airfield. The victim was a 45-year-old man who had been with...

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A 28-year-old man from Bartlett died of injuries he sustained at the TECO-Westinghouse Motor Co. manufacturing plant in Round Rock, Texas. The firefighters that responded to the scene treated him for a chest and abdomen injury. The workplace injury happened last week Monday. Round Rock firefighters said they received a call from TECO-Westinghouse about 1:45 p.m. When they arrived, they...

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A new study published in the American Journal of Epidemiology has shown that more overweight and obese people are involved in workplace injuries than others. Researchers based the study on Body Mass Index (BMI) calculations. BMI is a measure of body fat based on an adult's height and weight. It is used to screen for weight categories that may lead to health problems. According to the CDC, a...

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A Stow, Ohio Dupont Performance Elastomers plant has gone 60 years without an OSHA recordable workplace injury. This is a huge milestone to achieve.According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the comparablerecordable injury rate for workers in the synthetic rubber industry was 2.9cases per 100 workers in 2005. If the Akron site's performance had been atthe industry average, there would...

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A story from Dalas-Ft.Worth's WFAA-TV details the problems of Texas' workers compensation system through the eyes of two injured workers, Robert Frederick and Frankie Dutcher. Frederick suffers from a back injury he sustained while working as an auto mechanic four years ago, while Dutcher suffers from serious side-effects of exposure to hamful chemicals while working as a power-line repairman in...

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Recently, the Missouri Court of Appeals affirmed the denial of workers' compensation benefits to an employee who had a pre-existing condition that he argued was aggravated by a work-related incident. The administrative law judge that heard the case determined that the work-related incident did not cause the underlying problem, and the condition was related to a pre-existing injury and thus was...

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On November 30, 2005 a lawsuit was filed by the Mo. Alliance for Retired Americans, et al. against the Missouri Dept. of Labor and Industrial Relations and Division of Workers' Compensation, Case No. 05AC-CC01114 in the Cirucit Court of Cole County, Missouri. The lawsuit seeks a ruling by the Court regarding the Constitutionality of the new workers' compensation law.This matter is scheduled for...

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In August of 2005 new legislation took effect which impacted the area of Missouri's workers compensation laws. The new law contained drafting errors which called into question whether or not injured workers would be covered by workers compensation insurance. Liberty Mutual (a workers compensation insurer) filed a declaratory judgment action seeking an order from the Circuit Court of Cole...

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Workers trying to repair hurricane damage at a Daytona Beach, FL wastewater treatment plant were the victims of an explosion Wednesday. The workers were using a cutting torch to repair a roof covering two chemical tanks. This is the suspected cause of the blast.Two surviving workers suffered burns over at least 80% of their bodies.Officials later found a small hole in a pipe that connects to...

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