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...

• OSHA reports targeted inspection plan for 2005

  Tom Methvin | October 20, 2006 4:41 PM | 0 CommentsMobile, AL

  The Federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) announced that its 2005 site-specific targeting (SST) plan will focus on approximately 4,400 high-hazard worksites for unannounced comprehensive inspections over the coming year. Jonathan Snare, Deputy Assistant Decretary of Labor for OSHA, made this observation: Our targeted inspection program maximizes the effectiveness of our...

• Physical Therapy groups offer employment screens

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

  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...

• 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...

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

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

  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

  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...

• Disability insurance gaining popularity

  Staff Writer | December 21, 2006 6:38 AM | 0 CommentsMobile, AL

  An interesting article from The Wall Street Journal highlights increasing consumer interest in disability insurance. This is attributed in part to lower prices for these insurance policies and to more people recovering and living longer after accidents or serious diseases such as cancer. The article reports:The renewed interest in disability insurance comes as disability rates are rising....

• Construction accident at Spring Hill College

  Staff Writer | December 04, 2006 1:08 PM | 0 CommentsMobile, AL

  The Press-Register reported Friday that a construction worker from Alabama died in an accident at Spring Hill College on Thursday. The victim was working on the third floor close to an elevator shaft when a concrete wall fell on and crushed him. Though the reason for the accident is not clear yet, an Occupational Safety and Health Adminstration (OSHA) investigator has been inspecting the scene....