According to a recent news report from News 4 Jax, a 69-year-old construction worker was killed while working at a construction site. In this case, he was working on a massive pavement project when a street sweeper came by and hit him. He was run completely over by the street…
There are a lot of dangerous workplaces and types of occupations in Massachusetts. Some of the jobs for which one might expect high injury rates are construction work in downtown Boston or commercial fishing in Gloucester. While it is certainly more likely to get hurt in one of these traditionally…
According to a recent news report from News 4 Jax, a 69-year-old construction worker was killed while working at a construction site. In this case, he was working on a massive pavement project when a street sweeper came by and hit him. He was run completely over by the street…
Working on a construction site is among the most dangerous jobs in the United States. Each year, construction workers are killed when they are hit by cars on roadside construction projects. We also see workers hit by falling objects, fall off high buildings under construction, and get run over by…
A recent release from the Harvard School of Public Health News Service looks at a residency program designed to help injured workers, and those collecting workers’ compensation benefits in the greater Boston area get back on their feet and get back to work. According to the recent graduate who worked…
According to recent news from the Taunton Gazette, a group of workers and family members gathered at the steps of the Massachusetts statehouse in downtown Boston to fight for workplace safety measures for construction sites. They were also there to mourn the more than 60 construction workers who died in…
It is common to see someone wearing a brace on his or her hand or wrist and immediately assume that person suffers from carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS). While everyone has heard of carpal tunnel syndrome, many people do not understand what exactly the condition is and that it is often…
There is no question that construction work is dangerous, as there are many cases of serious or even fatal on-the-job injuries each year. Most of these construction site injuries involve someone getting hurt from falling from a high structure, being hit by a hard object, or being injured by a…
Hartzell v. Palmetto Collision is a workers’ compensation appeal that was decided by the South Carolina Supreme Court. In Hartzell, a 50-year-old claimant was working as as a paint technician at an auto body shop in the beginning of 2009 when he suffered an on-the-job injury. Claimant was moving rims,…
Vandenberg v. Dept. of Health & Social Services, a case from the Supreme Court of the State of Alaska, involved a nurse who suffered a permanent partial disability in a work-related injury. Claimant injured her right shoulder as she was reaching for a laptop computer and bag of some sort…