W. World Ins. Co. v. Armbruster, a case from the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, involved claimant who worked at a farmer’s market. This farmers market offered hayrides, pony rides, and pumpkin picking. Claimant was hired to run the hayride for eight weeks. There was a…
In Martz v. Hills Materials, a case from the Supreme Court of South Dakota, claimant injured his shoulder in 2000 while working at a mining company. Claimant filed a workers’ compensation claim and received benefits for the work-related injury. In this accident, his employer was self-insured, accepted liability for workers’…
In re Worker’s Compensation Claim of Stevens, a workers’ compensation appeal from the Supreme Court of Wyoming, involved claimant who was injured when she fell down a flight of stairs outside her workplace. She worked at an aquatics facility, and the accident occurred in late 2010. After falling down the…
An employee at a waste disposal company was killed in what appears to be an industrial accident in Peabody, Massachusetts, according to a recent news article from the Eagle Tribune. Authorities say victim was working a Friday morning shift when he was run over by a front-loader. The accident occurred…
Morales v. Zenith Ins. Co., a workers’ compensation case from the Supreme Court of Florida, involved an employee who was crushed to death by a palm tree while working at employer’s lawn care business. Employee’s surviving spouse entered into a settlement agreement with employer and its liability insurance carrier. This…
In Deon v. H &J, Inc., claimant was employed in a full-time capacity as a maintenance technician for employer from 2003 until 2009. A few years prior to working for employer, claimant injured her shoulders and neck. She filed for workers’ compensation and received a six percent permanent partial disability…
Black Friday is the biggest shopping day of the year, and it is a dangerous day for workers who are in a retail store environment. Workers are often asked to help manage crowd control, which they may not have a lot of training to do. Workers may also be under…
Employers are supposed to follow basic safety rules in order to ensure the risk of an employee getting hurt or sick is minimized. Unfortunately, this does not always occur. In fact, there are many situations where regulations passed by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration are either willfully or unintentionally…
Employers in Boston and throughout the U.S. are legally required to make a report to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) after certain types of workplace accidents and injuries. According to OSHA’s website, the agency recently changed its reporting requirements, and the new rules will be effective January 2015.…
Many people have heard the myth about a penny dropped from the top of the Empire State Building falling with enough force to kill someone standing below. This assertion has been debunked by Scientific American, which reports a penny would cause neither serious injury or death because it is “too…