According to a recent news article from the Boston Globe, an operator on the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) Red Line Mattapan Trolley in Dorchester was driving the trolley car when a man wearing a Michael Myers mask viciously attacked him. For those who are not familiar with the mask,…
According to a recent news article from ABC News, a former employee of a Pennsylvania Wal-Mart Superstore retuned to the store later that same day and shot an employee. Authorities have said this does not appear to be a random act of violence. Witnesses reported the 22-year-old defendant returned to the…
According to a recent news article from PIX 11, a worker for an environmental protection contractor was killed when he fell into a huge concrete tank at a wastewater treatment facility in Brooklyn, NY. He was an employee of a contractor that had been hired to perform some major work…
State and local agencies have been looking into the company that was handling a construction project where to two Boston workers were killed when they drowned in a trench after a water main ruptured. In that on-the-job accident, the trench in which the two men were standing and the entire…
While there is no shortage of reality shows about the world’s deadliest and dangerous jobs, ranging from being a crabber in the Bearing Sea to driving a truck on an ice road, or mining gold underwater, there are lot of ways to get injured or become ill while working at…
Whenever a worker is killed on the job, the employer is required to notify the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) within eight hours, so the agency can conduct a full investigation into the cause of the worker’s death. If the worker was found to have died as a result of…
Over the past month or so, the Boston Globe has been investigating the conditions under which many immigrants are forced to work. The paper published an exposé on this issue the previous week and is now looking at some of the myths commonly believed by these immigrant workers that allow…
In Mordhorst v. Dakota Truck Underwriters, a 22-year-old claimant was working for a furniture company doing deliveries. One day while on the job, he was delivering a sofa that weighed nearly 300 pounds. While delivering this couch, it fell off the back of the delivery truck and landed on claimant’s…
In Hilton v. Flakeboard America Limited, a case from the Supreme Court of South Carolina, an individual was injured when he was bitten by a spider or insect while on the job. There was no issue in this case as to whether the injury and related illness was compensable under…
Typically, workers’ compensation is known as an exclusive remedy. This means that if a worker is injured on the job or suffers from a work related illness, he or she must file a workers’ compensation claim if he or she is to be compensated for any loss suffered as a…