by admin | May 8, 2013 | Workers' Comp News
In a totally unrelated workers’ compensation post but one that I found interesting because let’s face it we all speed at some time or another. Whether we are on a highway, late to an event, or just out joyriding at some time or another we have all broken...
by admin | May 7, 2013 | Workers' Comp News
A turkey processing plant in Atalissa, Iowa has been ordered to pay $240M to mentally disabled workers that they paid 41 cents an hour and housed them in a rodent infested living environment. The settlement will be divided evenly among 32 mentally disabled workers who...
by admin | May 2, 2013 | Workers' Comp News
A Philadelphia woman employed by Allied Barton Security Services LLC. was contracted out to Sunoco Refineries in Philly to provide security. She fell on some snow or ice and was injured. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has ruled that she cannot sue Sunoco for failure...
by admin | May 1, 2013 | Workers' Comp News
OSHA has cited a wildlife casting agency – Animals of Montana, after a 24-year-old trainer was mauled to death back in November 2012 while cleaning the bear’s enclosure. The use of a secondary cage when working with animals that have the capability of...
by admin | May 1, 2013 | Workers' Comp News
A cleaning worker for an Oregon meat-processing plant was killed when he fell into a running meat blender. Hugo Avalos-Chanin, 41 of Portland was contracted by his employer DCS Sanitation to Interstate Meat Distributors. Around 11:45 p.m. on Friday sheriff and medics...
