August 29, 2011 by Fred Hosier
Imagine this: Employees at a work site have some down time while waiting for materials to arrive. To amuse themselves while waiting, they try to smash a bowling ball with a sledge hammer. An employee is injured. Does the injury quality for workers’ comp benefits?
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Tags: bowling ball, goofing off, Pennsylvania, positive work order violation, sledge hammer, Workers' comp
May 20, 2011 by Fred Hosier
There are probably innumerable ways to break your wrist at work and qualify for workers’ compensation. But punching a customer?
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Tags: Australia, broken wrist, punched customer, Red Rooster, Workers' comp
May 9, 2011 by Fred Hosier
A bus driver with several crashes in a short period of time was fired. He took his case to an appeals board. His defense: “I’m not the worst driver.”
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Tags: accident prone employees, accidents will happen, bus crashes, worst bus driver
January 31, 2011 by Fred Hosier
It started as innocent horseplay: Employees threw ice cubes at a co-worker. But the horseplay ended with an injury. Does the employee get workers’ comp benefits since he was injured at work?
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Tags: horseplay doctrine, injured during horseplay, temporary total disability, Workers' comp
January 7, 2011 by Fred Hosier
They may call them “smart phones,” but sometimes the users end up being dummies.
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Tags: butt dial, SWAT team, workplace violence
December 23, 2010 by Fred Hosier
Sure, the editors at Safety News Alert have their own opinions on the top safety stories of 2010. But we thought we’d let readers’ clicks speak for themselves.
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Tags: drown in ketchup, stupid tricks, top 10 2010, top 10 safety stories, Workers' comp
September 24, 2010 by Fred Hosier
Where do workers get the idea that it’s OK not to use safety gear for hazardous jobs? Is one source online videos?
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Tags: free climbing, hazardous jobs, safety gear, tower climbing, viral video
August 16, 2010 by Fred Hosier
An employee engaged in unsafe horseplay at work. He got warnings, including a final one, but was caught once again on videotape. He was fired, and the case eventually went to court.
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Tags: final warning, horseplay, Wal-Mart
March 10, 2010 by Fred Hosier
If you get into enough debates about using cell phones while driving, eventually someone is likely to say, “What about all the other things people do while driving? I’ve seen people eating, putting on makeup, shaving … ”
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Tags: cell phones, reckless driving, shaving while driving
March 1, 2010 by Fred Hosier
One of those so-called reality shows takes too cavalier an attitude about safety, according to a blogger in the general media. If that’s the case, we want to take the issue one step further: Do the media’s messages harm attempts to increase workplace safety?
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Tags: disregard for safety, people getting hurt, reality shows, Survivor, tough-guy attitude
February 13, 2009 by Fred Hosier
Did you know that Feb. 12, 2009 was Charles Darwin’s 200th birthday? And the man credited with the theory of evolution now shares his name with an annual list of people whose unsafe acts accidentally led to their deaths. And many of these occurred at work.
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Tags: Darwin Awards, remove from gene pool, unsafe acts
February 5, 2009 by Fred Hosier
This isn’t how companies would want to test a safety net at a construction site.
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Tags: construction, drunk worker, safety net
January 27, 2009 by Fred Hosier
An employee was hospitalized after he used a propane torch to thaw ice on a piece of work equipment.
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Tags: explosion, fractures, propane, thaw ice
December 22, 2008 by Fred Hosier
The city of Montreal, Canada, has shown that it takes drinking — or even just carrying — alcohol on the job while using city equipment very seriously.
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Tags: alcohol, breathalyzer, fired
November 28, 2008 by Fred Hosier
Does your company require employees to pass drug tests? Now, there’s one less product on the market to help them cheat.
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Tags: court, drug tests, transportation, Whizzinator
November 18, 2008 by Fred Hosier
Stupid: Performing stunts on a forklift. Really stupid: Recording the stunts and posting them on the Web.
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Tags: forklift, safety courses, stunts
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