Workplace Injuries

• Tort Reform: What's in a Name?

  Pete Burns | May 05, 2009 6:04 PM | 0 CommentsMobile, AL

  The change the reformers want to persuade the American people to enact is to abandon the Constitutional protection of a righ to trial by jury. Rather than allow a group of 12 disinterested citizens...

• Wyoming Looks To Improve Worker Safety

  Pete Mackey | April 21, 2009 8:00 AM | 0 CommentsMobile, AL

  Wyoming lawmakers are taking steps to improve on the state’s abysmal work safety record. Wyoming had more work place fatalities per 100,000 workers than any other state in 2007. To Governor...

• Labor and Materialmen Protect Yourselves

  Billy Cunningham | March 06, 2009 8:00 AM | 0 CommentsMobile, AL

  If you are a contractor, subcontractor or a person who supplies labor or material on a construction job whether residential or commercial, you need to protect yourselves in this market. We are now...

• Six Charged With Filing False Storm Claims

  Chrissie Cole | March 04, 2008 1:15 AM | 0 CommentsMobile, AL

  Following a federal grand jury indictment earlier this week, six Orlando-area residents have been arrested by federal officials and charged with filing false storm claims with the federal government in 2005.Each of the six individuals arrested, are being charged in separate indictments, and accused of filing and collecting $2,000 in disaster assistance claims with the Federal Emergency...

• Crane Operator Injured in Worksite Accident

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

  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

  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

  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

  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...

• San Francisco construction accident injures workers

  Staff Writer | March 29, 2007 4:32 PM | 0 CommentsMobile, AL

  A construction accident in San Francisco that injured four workers has prompted an investigation by the Occupational Safety and Health Association (OSHA) for the state of California.Bay City News Wire reported that the accident happened in a Nob Hill residential building where a team of workers were renovating a basement and garage. San Francisco Fire Lt. Mindy Talmadge comments on the incident:...

• Will slope shelving prevent workplace injuries?

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

  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...