Worker buried alive after falling head-first into hole
The death of a construction worker in California provides lessons about trenching and forklift use.
The death of a construction worker in California provides lessons about trenching and forklift use.
OSHA says a manager at a sugar packaging plant removed a safety device from a machine because it was slowing down production. Two weeks later, a worker died because the device wasn’t in place.
How can an illness that’s not considered job-related be tied to the workplace in order to file a lawsuit that avoids workers’ comp exclusivity provisions? By showing the illness may have been triggered by a workplace activity. That’s what the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeal for Louisiana recently found in its decision to revive a […]
Can an employee sue their employer for terminating or taking other adverse actions against them solely because the employee is a certified medical marijuana user? The answer is yes, according to a federal court in Pennsylvania. On Sept. 25, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania found in favor of a terminated employee […]
An injured employee whose co-workers failed to get him proper medical care can move forward with a negligence suit against his employer, according to an Alabama Supreme Court decision.
A co-worker found this employee bleeding from the head and incoherent. The injured employee can’t remember how he got the head wound. Will workers’ comp pay for the injury?
OSHA has filed 16 safety violations against a company in Warrior, AL, in connection with the death of a worker on Sept. 12, 2011.
Those who think workers are too quick to blame everyone else for accidents that happen in the workplace will be heartened by this employee’s attitude.
Employees at this facility faced exposure to blood and other potentially infectious bodily fluids.
Does a company have to pay workers’ comp benefits to an employee who contracted West Nile virus? How do you prove whether a mosquito bite happened at work?
Here’s an important reminder for forklift drivers: It’s crucial that they have a clear view of their path while backing up. Anything less can prove to be fatal.
A Wisconsin company faces a $135,804 OSHA fine in connection with a worker’s death in August. A 3,000-pound concrete form fell on the worker and crushed him to death.
An overstressed beam at a construction site fell and crushed a worker to death. Now OSHA has issued fines for violations of its regulations having to do with demolition.
OSHA is trying to determine how a worker in a Brush, CO, warehouse was crushed to death by a 15-foot high pile of pinto beans.
Frank Johnson Sr.’s wife said her husband had worried for four or five months before his death that “somebody is going to get killed” at work and he hoped “it ain’t me.” Now OSHA is investigating his death.
OSHA has fined a Rochester, NY, recycling company in connection with the June death of an employee inside a compactor.