Worker in cherry picker crushed to death
Cal-OSHA is investigating a fatality in which an employee was working by himself using a cherry picker. The worker was killed when his body was crushed between a building and the boom’s basket.
Cal-OSHA is investigating a fatality in which an employee was working by himself using a cherry picker. The worker was killed when his body was crushed between a building and the boom’s basket.
This employee received an electrical shock. There’s no question he suffered physical injuries. But did his depression result from the work injury, and is it compensable under workers’ comp?
A worker engaged in horseplay that was specifically prohibited in his employee handbook. He was injured and applied for workers’ comp benefits. Did a court grant them?
A Louisiana appeals court upheld a lower court decision allowing an injured worker who re-injured his knee while putting up Christmas lights to collect workers’ compensation benefits. The appeals court said the new injury was related to the weakened condition of his knee from his previous work-related injury, so he was entitled to workers’ comp. […]
A migrant worker fractured his ankle on a sidewalk outside of employer-provided housing. Does he get workers’ comp benefits for his injury?
It’s easy to fall into routines at work. Things seem to work the same every day. But what happens when, just once, something doesn’t work as it usually does? That’s what happened at a Manhattan parking garage.
A security surveillance agent monitoring 38 video screens started to put his legs on his desk to revive circulation. His chair tipped over and he was thrown to the floor, sustaining injuries. Will a court allow him to get workers’ comp for those injuries?
An employee was on light duty after suffering an injury at work. One day he called his supervisor “an insulting, derogatory and vulgar name.” He was fired. The worker filed to receive workers’ comp benefits because of his injury. How did a court rule?
Next time you want to address proper ladder use and fall protection with workers, you might want to use this story about a man who fell to his death when he was trying to reach a light fixture.
One worker was killed and another injured in an explosion at a company that supplies services for the gas and oil industry.
An employee of a window company in Colorado was crushed to death by a falling crate of glass.
A plumber working at a high school was killed in a freak incident when he was hit by a stream of highly pressurized water.
OSHA is trying to determine what went wrong after a construction worker was killed when a 60-pound bag of rocks fell off a four-story building.
Three companies have agreed to settle a lawsuit for $17 million in connection with the death of an electrician who was struck by an iron hook that fell from a crane.
OSHA is investigating an incident in which an employee of a construction company was killed when some of his co-workers threw a refrigerator off of a fourth story balcony, crushing the employee.
OSHA has fined a tree surgery company following the death of an employee last summer in Idaho City, ID.