Every employer is required by law to provide workers' compensation insurance for his or her worker. But did you know that cab drivers in Pennsylvania don’t enjoy that protection? Rather than employees, cab drivers in Pennsylvania are considered contractors. And...
Home construction safety devices exist. Why aren’t they used?
The home building trades can be hazardous to the health of workers. Those who frame homes and scale the heights of roofs are at particular risk. According to a 2011 study by federal Bureau of Labor Statistics, 64 percent of all residential building industry deaths...
Some Pennsylvania 9/11 responders seek illness compensation
The United States marks another anniversary of the horrible 9/11 terror attack today. It was on this day in 2001 that terrorist-hijacked airliners piled into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. United Airlines Flight 93 crashed into a Pennsylvania field after...
Pennsylvania man trapped under steamroller getting help
Someone getting run over by a steamroller is something you might expect to see in a cartoon, but there's nothing funny about it if it happens in reality. Pennsylvania readers might find it hard to believe that such accidents could actually happen, considering how slow...