Category: Workplace Accidents

Many workers spend much of their day operating or using equipment and machinery. Hazardous mechanical actions, such as cutting, shearing, pinching, and stamping continually put workers at risk for serious injury. Unfortunately, many workplace accidents occur each year from improper or inadequate machine guards. What are Machine Guards Designed to Do? Machine guards are designed[…]

Back pain accounts for more than 260 million missed workdays each year, according to the National Health Interview Survey. Back pain is often the result of a herniated disc. Employees may be able to obtain Workers’ Compensation benefits for a herniated disc if it is due to a work-related injury. However, employees must provide medical[…]

March commemorates National Ladder Safety Month, an annual awareness campaign aimed at reducing preventable ladder-related injuries and deaths. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), more Americans are fatally injured in incidents involving ladders each year than anywhere else in the world. Some ladder injuries result from safety failures in the workplace or while using[…]

Federal law as per the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) prescribes that every worker is entitled to a safe workplace. Despite the large number of safety and health standards that are in place, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported that 2.8 million workers were non-fatally injured in 2019 and that 5,333 died. The[…]

During the spring of 2020, scientists noticed that beef, pork, and poultry processing plants were emerging as hot spots for Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreaks. Workers in these plants were spreading COVID-19 at more than twice the national rate, according to a report in Bloomberg Law. However, catching an infectious disease is just one hazard that these[…]