For nearly a decade, the District of Columbia neglected to pay health and life insurance premiums for city workers injured or killed on the job. A DC auditor found that the city stopped making a majority of the payments in 2001. The city recently paid the...
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Worker Survives 80 Foot Fall from Virginia Water Tower
A 38-year-old worker fell approximately 80 feet while painting a water tower in Culpeper, Virginia, last month. Rescue workers airlifted the man to the University of Virginia Medical Center in Charlottesville. A second worker was hanging from a safety harness, but responders were able to rescue him and he was not injured. The
Read MoreU.S. Representative Fined for Lack of Workers’ Comp Insurance
The state of Oregon fined David Wu’s campaign $1,000.00 last October for failing to maintain workers’ compensation insurance for the past three years. David Wu is the U.S. Representative for Oregon’s First Congressional District. A Wu campaign worker filed a workers’ compensation claim last October. When the staffer’s health care provider tried to...
Read MoreVirginia Officer’s Battle to Receive Compensation for Injuries Shows System’s Faults
A Virginia police officer suffered an injury while transporting a handcuffed man down a flight of stairs. The man slipped, and the officer grabbed the man’s arm to keep him from falling. The officer immediately felt a sharp pain in his back and groin. Doctors eventually diagnosed him as having a hernia and ruptured...
Read MoreMaryland Workplace Deaths Rise Despite Nationwide Drop
A report from the Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics showed that workplace deaths in Maryland increased in 2009, rising to 65 from 60 the previous year. Washington, D.C. workplace fatalities numbered 10 in 2009, up from 9 in 2008, and Virginia saw a decrease from 156 to 118. Nationwide, 4,340 workers died...
Read MoreNationwide Study Finds that Workplace Safety is the Most Important Issue for Workers
Last month, the University of Chicago published the results of a study entitled “Public Attitudes Towards and Experiences with Workplace Safety”. The study looked at multiple surveys and polls and found that the most important labor issue for workers is workplace safety. Workplace safety even ranked higher than things like family and maternity leave...
Read MoreDC-Based Chemical Safety Board Sent to Pennsylvania to Investigate 2 Deaths in Explosion at Zinc Plant
Representatives from the U.S. Chemical Safety Board, a Washington, D.C.-based federal agency, recently visited a zinc plant in Pennsylvania after an explosion killed two workers and injured two more. The two killed were members of the United Steelworkers Local 8183 union and died as a result of suffocation from smoke inhalation. If unsafe...
Read MoreConstruction Worker Flown to DC after Suffering Severe Burns in Work Accident
Construction work is dangerous. In the United States, the most fatal work injuries are routinely construction industry-related, and the work is particularly dangerous for those working on buildings. Deaths amongst engineers, painters, and electricians, for example, are typically much lower than deaths amongst laborers. A Washington, D.C. personal injury lawyer can assist you...
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