Category: Workers’ Compensation

By Michael W. McGurrin, Esq. and Gabriela Raful, Esq. Pennsylvania’s workers’ compensation law changed significantly last month. In the landmark case, Protz v. Derry Area School District, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court declared a major section of workers’ compensation law to be unconstitutional. You may have heard of the “500 weeks” or “10 year” limit in workers’[…]

At a recent national safety conference, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) expressed its goal to fight against workplace violence and its associated risks of serious injuries and death. According to OSHA, violence in the workplace constitutes any threat or act of physical violence, intimidation, harassment and other forms of disruptive, threatening behaviors that[…]

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) recently issued 12 safety citations to a Florida electrical cable company after a 26-year-old machine operator lost his life in a fatal work accident. OSHA found that the company failed to provide adequate safety measures to protect the worker’s life, such as properly guarding machinery as well as[…]

According to new information released by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), Pennsylvania ranks as having the third highest amount of worker injuries. As part of a new program, OSHA now requires employers to report serious, nonfatal workplace injuries. The administration has been compiling data for the last two years in all states that[…]

The report took into account more than 3,000 workers across different industries. Although less than ½ of the workers were CPR or first aid trained, 90% of them said that if their employers offered training that they would voluntarily participate. And, even though most workers didn’t know first aid training themselves, at least 73% of[…]