Posts tagged On-the-Job Injuries

• Crane Operator Injured in Worksite Accident

  Chrissie Cole | February 29, 2008 11:35 PM | 0 CommentsMobile, AL Category: Workplace Injuries
  

  An Omaha crane operator suffered on the job injuries, in a construction accident, when the 140,000 pound crane he was on slipped down an embankment and into the Papio Creek trapping him inside the cab.The worker was trapped for almost an hour. Firefighters were able to release him from the cab with the Jaws of Life, according to the Omaha Fire Department.He was treated for hypothermia and is...

• Study says weight affects risk of worksite injury

  Staff Writer | June 15, 2007 1:07 PM | 0 CommentsMobile, AL Category: Workplace Injuries
  

  A workplace injury study from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health's Center for Injury Research and Policy says that obesity can increase the risk of a worksite injury. Published in May 2007, in the American Journal of Epidemiology, the study's findings show that a body mass index (BMI) in the obese category significantly raises the possibilities for trauma injuries on the job. Of...

• Hispanic group promotes workplace safety

  Staff Writer | May 10, 2007 10:01 AM | 0 CommentsMobile, AL Category: Workplace Injuries
  

  The Birmingham News reported last week that a team of Hispanic business owners and contractors has come together to create the Association of Hispanic Contractors to help improve workplace safety in the area. The group of 55 seeks to lower workplace injuries."Our focus is on education and safety," said Martinez, president of the new group. "Safety in our community is a big issue and with us...

• North Carolina man dies of injuries

  Staff Writer | April 23, 2007 10:52 PM | 0 CommentsMobile, AL Category: Workplace Injuries
  

  The Fayette Observer reported that a man crushed by a backhoe at a gravel pit died from his worksite injuries. As he was operating the backhoe on the job at his family's gravel pit, it slid off an embankment and flipped onto him. He was sadly crushed, and died about one week later. Many workplace injuries occur each year, sometimes because of worker mistakes and sometimes because the right...

• Will slope shelving prevent workplace injuries?

  Staff Writer | February 13, 2007 10:01 AM | 0 CommentsMobile, AL Category: Workplace Injuries
  

  A news release from A Plus Warehouse on PR Web promoting their new slope schelving storage cabinets says that the product could help prevent more back and hand injuries in warehouses.The American Society of Safety Engineers has apparently endorsed this type of shelving, which allows workers to inspect products without picking everyone of them up. This could eliminate many of the hand and back...

• Protecting immigrant labor from injuries growing concern

  Staff Writer | February 07, 2007 11:35 AM | 0 CommentsMobile, AL Category: Workplace Injuries
  

  An Associated Press story last week addresses the growing problem of workplace injuries among immigrant workers who may speak little or no English. With more immigrant labor entering the construction and landscaping business, proper safety training is becoming an issue. A number of companies are failing to adequately train their non-English speaking workers, and injuries among them are on the...

• OSHA requires employers to post injuries

  Staff Writer | January 24, 2007 3:36 PM | 0 CommentsMobile, AL Category: Workplace Injuries
  

  Each year on Feb. 1, the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) requires employers to post the total number of work-related injuries and illnesses their employees experienced during the previous year. Employers are required to post OSHA Form 300A from Feb. 1 through April 30, 2007, with a summary of all the worksite injuries and illnesses their exployees had during 2006. A...

• Physical Therapy groups offer employment screens

  Staff Writer | January 15, 2007 2:51 PM | 0 CommentsMobile, AL Category: Workplace Injuries
  

  Many Physical Therapy groups offer services to employers to screen potential employees for their physical abilities to perform certain jobs or tasks. This service can help prevent worksite injuries and save the companies money. An article about First Choice Physical Therapy in North Dakota provides a good example of this. The give post-offer employee tests for jobs that have certain lifting or...

• U.S. Capitol now a smoke-free workplace

  Staff Writer | January 11, 2007 9:07 AM | 0 CommentsMobile, AL Category: Workplace Injuries
  

  New House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced yesterday a new smoke-free policy for the Speaker's Lobby, a meeting area near the Floor of the House of Representatives. Speaker Pelosi's historic action follows a nation-wide trend toward making workplaces smoke-free.Americans for Nonsmokers' Rights (ANR) and newpapers across the nation reported on this story:"As Members of Congress, we must be held to...

• OSHA fines companies for fall hazards

  Staff Writer | December 22, 2006 4:18 PM | 0 CommentsMobile, AL Category: Workplace Injuries
  

  A report today on OccupationalHazards.com said that OSHA fined two contractors in Massachusetts for exposing their employees to fall hazards at residential construction sites. Many worksite fatalities in the construction industry occur because of falls. "Falls are the No. 1 killer in construction," said Francis Pagliuca, OSHA's area director for Middlesex and Essex counties. "Workers' lives are...