Many of Pennsylvania's workers operate in environments that pose safety risks. Since employers are required to implement safety procedures and policies, many of these incidences are avoided. Yet, sometimes workplace safety is put on the backburner. Employees may be...
Football is one of America's greatest past times and is often the focus of news coverage based on the games and their players. It has lately been in the spotlight for a more contentious issue: the impacts of injuries on football players throughout Pennsylvania and the...
Workers all around the state of Pennsylvania go to work each day and encounter dangerous situations. These workers understand that without the right protection and care, they could very easily be injured. However, few employees put their lives at risk the way...
Every workplace has its hazards. Most of the time the threat to worker safety is easily identified and if a workplace injury occurs, provisions of workers' compensation coverage call for a pay-out of benefits for medical treatment. Wage compensation is available in...
There's a construction worker reportedly in an induced coma in a Philadelphia hospital right now, this after he suffered an electrical jolt early last week. According to officials with the Office of Licenses and Inspections, "Everything was being done illegally,...
A 28-year-old man who experienced a disabling back injury at work was awarded over $10 million in damages in a personal injury lawsuit. The accident took place at a recycling plant where the man was delivering some papers that his employer wanted shredded. He suffered...
For nurses and clinicians in Pennsylvania and nationwide, the workplace is clearly a very dangerous place. Overall, around 35 percent of them have suffered work-related injuries at least once, with some of them suffering them more often. What are the majority of these...
When you think of the array of circumstances that can knock a person out of commission and prompt a claim for workers' compensation chances are good that the mind turns to physical injury. But mental conditions that stem from job-related situations may also be...
Many employers, especially those in high-risk industries, are not shy about going public with their safety achievements. It's not uncommon to see statements in plants or on the sides of trucks touting that the company has gone so many days or so many miles without an...
Workers' compensation is one of those important employee benefits enshrined in law. Every state in the U.S. has some sort of legislation on the books providing basic protection to help workers who are injured on the job get the support they need to recover and get...