Injured Workers Should Not Stand Alone
Regardless of your job or the duties you perform at work, there is a good chance you need to be able to hear effectively. Because hearing is also critical for your enjoyment of life, suffering from hearing loss is likely to affect virtually everything you do. Acute...
Employees taking time off to recover from work-related illnesses may qualify for workers' compensation benefits. You may file a claim if exposure to your job's toxic environment resulted in a disease or an affliction. The U.S. Department of Labor notes that federal...
Work-related injuries can occur at a wide variety of locations: for example, Inside the company offices, during a company picnic in the park or at a construction job site. If your injury relates to the kind of work you do, you should file a claim with your workers’...
Workers’ compensation can help you recover and get back to work. However, after a workplace injury, you may hesitate to file a workers’ compensation claim. Too many other people like you go without the benefits they need because they fear that they will lose their job...
Warehouse workers face many dangers daily. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the rate of warehouse injuries reported and recorded in 2019 was 4.8 for every 100 full-time workers. Warehouse injuries accounted for nearly 8% of 2.7 million workplace...
There are many things that can go wrong if you work at a warehouse. You can pull your back lifting a heavy box, trip and fall if there are items on the floor, get in a forklift accident and so on. In the event of an injury, you might think that reporting the incident...
A head injury is always a serious situation, even if it does not seem so at the time. Brain injuries may not always be immediately clear, so any time you suffer a bump to the head, you need to seek medical care. One of the most common head injuries is a concussion....
After hurting yourself at work, you filed a workers' compensation claim with your employer. While you recover, your company assigned you modified work duty. Can you refuse duty you do not feel comfortable with? Chron explains when injured employees have the right to...
If your job duties place you in a work zone near traffic, you need to recognize the hazards you face on the job. Every year, work zone accidents cause many injuries and a lot of workers also lose their lives in these accidents. Work zones are especially hazardous for...
Manufacturing is one of the most important industries in the country, but also one of the most hazardous because of the materials and equipment involved. Your employer has a responsibility to mitigate these hazards to the extent possible to provide a safe working...
