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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...
When you go into work, you have an expectation that you are going to come out of the worksite whole. Federal labor laws set safety standards across Pennsylvania. Each type of work has its own set and if an employer fails to meet the standards, workplace injuries due...
Every human activity has its risks. Workplace risks are among the greatest we face in our daily lives. While some jobs are more risky than others, each has its dangers. Workers' compensation requirements are in place to address issues when on-the-job accidents occur...
City and federal officials have been investigating a construction site in Philadelphia where a recent accident led to two individuals being injured. One of the victims was a construction worker at the site. The other was a city firefighter who reportedly suffered a...
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...
Two groups of professionals whose labors we often take for granted but who deserve our immense respect: construction workers and firefighters. Their jobs are tough, and when injurious accidents happen on the job, these workers deserve compensation that is sufficient...
Considering the intense focus the world currently has on the revelations about how the U.S. has been gathering data scraps on individuals in the name of national security, the term "surveillance" might not be the best term to use. But it is the one that federal...
There was a time in Pennsylvania history when all fire departments consisted mainly of volunteers. As the major cities grew up, the ranks of urban departments have become fleshed out with paid professionals. Volunteers are still evident in many departments, and they...
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...
Justice is blind, or so the ideal holds. That's the message that is intended to be conveyed by the depictions of "Justice" that grace so many court houses around Pennsylvania and the other states of the union. They tend to show a woman holding scales and standing...