by admin | Dec 22, 2014 | Workers' Comp News
With the recent decision of the government to not renew TRIA there have been many discussions as to whether or not this will have an impact on the workers compensation arena. Acrometis’ own President and CEO Jerry Poole who is a Risk Insider was asked about his...
by admin | Dec 19, 2014 | Workers' Comp News
In the early hours on December 12th at The Office Gentlemen’s Club in Miami Gardens, two club workers were shot. One being a bouncer and one being a dancer – Courtney Olson. Reports are saying that a patron got into an argument with a bouncer which later...
by admin | Dec 16, 2014 | Workers' Comp News
JBS USA a meatpacking plant in Greeley, CO has been fined $45K by OSHA after it was found that JBS USA was responsible to the death of a worker who became caught in the conveyor belt system in the plant. The company was fined a total of $45,500 for two separate...
by admin | Dec 15, 2014 | Workers' Comp News
Alaska has seen a drastic drop of a 46% reduction in workplace injuries for the year 2014. The accident rate has dropped to 0.61 lost time injuries per 100 employees according to officials at the Department of Labor and Workforce Development. Alaska is now the lowest...
by admin | Dec 3, 2014 | Workers' Comp News
There were 65,880 firefighters injured in the line of duty in 2013, that is a 5.1% decrease from 2012. Numbers were collected from the respondents to the 2013 NFPA survey for U.S. Fire Experience. Of the injuries that were reported 29,760 (45.2%) were caused because...