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We posted previously on our Georgia Workers’ Compensation Attorney Blog that there were 4,500 work-related deaths in 2010. Translation: work accidents in Georgia and nationwide are killing workers at a rate of 3.5 per 100,000 full-time equivalent employees on average,...
The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) have teamed up to create a new guidance to further help prevent work accidents in Atlanta and elsewhere. The new guidance, “Nail Gun Safety –...
There are three new guidance products that have been released by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) to help educate employers and employees about the dangers that trenching workers face. Some of the deadliest work accidents in Georgia and...
Work accidents in Georgia are preventable when employers take the proper safety precautions to eliminate potential hazards. According to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), a number of Georgia companies were recently cited and fined after...
If you have ever had a workers’ compensation claim, it is possible that you have been followed by a private investigator. Surveillance is a tool that insurance companies routinely use to check on the activities of the injured worker. Many times they are just curious...
In the beginning of the year, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) announced it was not going to make any changes to the Provisions for Feasible Administrative or Engineering Controls of Occupational Noise. They were at one time going to interpret...
Because a worker fell off of a Ferris wheel, a Georgia company is facing fines of more than $27,000, according to FOX 8. The carnival accident happened back in May at the Greensboro carnival. According to the Greensboro News & Record, Event Coordinators Inc.,...
The Bureau of Labor Statistics recently released its preliminary estimates of fatal work accidents in Georgia and elsewhere, which showed that in 2010, more than 4,500 employees died as a result of work-related injuries. That amounts to about a fatal work injury rate...
Jim Boyd Construction, Piedmont Mechanical Inc. and Chevron Energy have been cited by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) for a number of safety violations that were discovered after a worker was burned as the result of a preventable electrical...
Each year, roughly 2 million workers report that they have been the victim of workplace violence. The truth is that a great number of cases are expected to be unreported, so the actual number is much higher. The Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Census of Fatal Occupational...
