Worker left dead horse in road; now company is out $2.7M
Imagine this: A driver for your company hits and kills a horse in a work vehicle. What is the responsibility of your employee and company to other motorists on that road?
Imagine this: A driver for your company hits and kills a horse in a work vehicle. What is the responsibility of your employee and company to other motorists on that road?
If a job required lifting 25 pounds, you wouldn’t hire someone with a 20-pound lifting restriction. But let’s say a worker hid that information from you, was injured on the job and filed a workers’ comp claim. Would the worker get benefits?
An employee is suing a company after he lost three fingers in a workplace incident.
“He walked into the grain storage bin on his own two feet, but he left in an ambulance.”
Could a moment of distraction have caused a worker to lose his right hand?
Just over a year ago, OSHA cited this company for machine hazard violations. Eight months later, a man lost part of his arm due to similar hazards, and the company faces a half-million dollar fine.
This employer says it couldn’t have known that an employee would do something unsafe which resulted in the loss of two fingers. Did a court see things the company’s way?
Q: When is workers’ compensation, the so-called “exclusive remedy” for employee injuries, not an exclusive remedy? A: When the injured employee can prove the company knew an injury was likely to occur.
A worker tests positive for PCP right after he’s injured. Is he still able to collect workers’ comp benefits?
Worker’s comp shields companies from expensive lawsuits (most of the time) when a worker is injured on the job. But injured workers can file — and win — expensive lawsuits against third parties involved in the incidents.
A worker’s supervisors saw him pass out while on the job. But his employer says the worker never gave formal notice of his workplace injury. Did a court award him workers’ comp benefits?
A company in Barboursville, WV, faces $56,250 in OSHA fines following a fatality at the plant earlier this year.
A lack of safety training played a part in the death of an employee at a manufacturing plant, according to OSHA.
A scrap metal processor has agreed to pay $350,000 to the family of a worker who was killed when he was pulled into a shredder.
Jonathan Gilmore, 26, was killed when he was pulled into a machine and crushed. Now OSHA has issued the employer more than $226K in fines.
Advice from a paramedic: Don’t do what this worker did when a nail flew into his eye.