Workplace Injuries

Each year, data is collected by the U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics involving injuries and illnesses that occur in workplaces across the country. Large groups or businesses such as Allsup, a nationwide provider of Social Security Disability...

It may not come as news to readers of this blog that a second death has been recorded at West Penn Hospital in Pittsburgh related to the gas well explosion that happened last month in West Virginia. The Allegheny County Medical Examiner's Office confirmed the death...

The Allegheny County Medical Examiner's Office has confirmed the death of a 45-year-old gas well worker. The man died earlier this week at West Penn Hospital in Bloomfield, where he had been admitted after suffering serious burns in an explosion at the well site. The...

The investigation is reportedly still underway to try to determine how a construction worker at the Philadelphia Navy Yard wound up tumbling from a cherry-picker lift. The 27-year-old man is apparently still hospitalized and the extent of his injuries hasn't been...

It is a fact of medicine that a large measure of the work involved deals with managing pain. Despite increasing emphasis on preventive care and regulations governing workplace safety, workers injured on the job in Pennsylvania often find themselves prescribed powerful...

It may be a widely held notion that the United States is something of a classless society. Most anyone in Pennsylvania with any real life experience would be likely to pooh-pooh that idea as nothing more than a myth. It’s pretty obvious that there are divisions...

Workplace injuries can happen in a lot of ways. There are so many different things that can create hazards that result in injury-causing accidents. Not all are as major as those that might be experienced in an industrial setting. Most are more serious than a simple...

When workers are on the job they are often pressed to focus on their tasks. Safety should be a major concern, too, but the steps to prevent workplace injuries from occurring too often get missed and many Pennsylvania employers fail to take even rudimentary safety...

The notion that computer games might be able to prepare users for real life events has been something that has been around for a few decades now. With advances in computer technology coming fast and furious, new virtual reality tools seem to be being developed for all...

When disaster strikes in a work environment, the dangers to employees are immense. If the work place involves heavy industry, hazardous materials can pose a threat not just to the workers at the site, but the emergency crews that respond to the catastrophe. Anyone who...