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Black Friday events tend to bring shoppers out in droves, leaving stores to deal with crowd control issues and angry shoppers. Unfortunately, in many cases, it is the workers at the stores who are left to handle the Black Friday crowds. If a store is not prepared or...
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has slapped a Rome, Georgia company with a pair of violations after an employee had four fingers amputated while servicing a dust collector’s airlock system. A willful violation alleges the company failed to use...
As we recently reported on our Georgia Workers’ Compensation Attorney Blog, the number of work fatalities ha declined slightly through the long economic downturn. While officials are reporting less fatal work accidents, they’re also predicting a turn in this trend...
Work accidents at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport are most likely among the ground crews and other support personnel. Our Atlanta work injury attorneys understand one of the nation’s largest airports would simply cease to function without these...
A surprise in the recently released report on work accidents in the United States last year is that workplace violence is now responsible for the second-most deaths nationwide, behind only transportation accidents. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports violence in...
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics recently reported more than 4,600 employees were killed on the job last year, essentially unchanged from 2010. Georgia work accidents claimed 107 lives in 2011, compared to 108 in 2010. As we reported recently on our Georgia Workers...
The workforce is getting safer and less people are dying on the job, according to a recent report from CNN Money. But it’s not expected to last. As our economy continues to improve and more Americans head back to work, the number of fatal work accidents is expected to...
Atlanta police are looking for a convenience store robber who robbed a gas station wearing a clown mask, FOX News reported. Our Atlanta workers’ compensation attorneys understand the risks of working the night shift at convenience stores is no laughing matter in...
Work-Injury Prevention in Georgia – Efforts Pay Big Dividends There’s an average of 50 workers in the U.S. who are injured every minute during the 40-hour workweek. And more than 15 employees a day are killed on the job. The United States Department of Labor, (DOL)...
With a rebounding housing industry comes renewed risks for residential construction accidents in Georgia. With that in mind, the Occupational Safety & Health Administration is extending its temporary enforcement measures through Dec. 15. Our Atlanta workers’...
