When it comes to deciding whether an injured employee should get temporary total disability payments from workers’ comp, just how much do doctors’ opinions matter?
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Tags: doctor's opinion, knee injury, temporary total disability, Workers' comp
Here’s a reminder for workers: When they realize a mistake has been made, they need to take all necessary safety precautions while correcting the error, even if it takes more time. Anything else can prove fatal.
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Tags: harness and lanyard, Tennessee OSHA, worker decapitated
A FedEx courier injured her knee on the job. She required surgery and took time off under the Family Medical Leave Act. Shortly after she returned to work, she was fired for falsifying records. Was the firing justified or was it retaliation for taking FMLA leave?
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Tags: FMLA, retaliation, work injury
The federal government has released its revised regulatory agenda. It lists 10 new or revised OSHA rules for 2013, with more to come in future years.
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Tags: i2p2, OSHA regulations, OSHA rules, regulatory agenda
A construction contractor has reached an agreement with OSHA, settling citations in connection with the death of a worker who was erecting a scaffold.
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Tags: Falls, ladders, OSHA settlement, scaffold
In fiscal year 2012, which ran from October 2011 through September 2012, federal OSHA conducted almost 41,000 workplace safety and health inspections. Here are the top 10 citations the agency handed to companies:
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Tags: fall protection, hazard communication, National Safety Council, OSHA top 10 violations, scaffolding
Cheat the workers’ comp system once, you could get fined. Cheat is a second time, you could go to jail. That’s the lesson a business owner in Washington is learning.
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Tags: failing to report workers, fell off a roof, Washington Labor & Industries, workers' comp fraud
We’ve been following a case over the last two years about a company that has filed bankruptcy, started anew and then was hit with an OSHA repeat fine. The company says the repeat status was unwarranted because two separate employers were involved. Well, now that a court has ordered the company to pay up, guess what it’s doing?
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Tags: bankruptcy, fall protection, repeat violations, Summer and Winter Construction
Stories about slips and falls at work often concentrate on the physical trauma suffered by the victim. In this story, a brain injury from a workplace fall has had an unimaginable effect on a woman.
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Tags: Edith Piaf, fall at work, lose memory, retrograde amnesia
A worker fractured her nose. Workers’ comp paid for surgery which repaired the fracture and alleviated her pain. However, she argued for almost a year’s worth of additional benefits for disfigurement. Did a court award her more workers’ comp benefits?
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Tags: crooked nose, disfigurement benefits, fall down stairs, nasal surgery
