Nursing staff, including assistants and orderlies, contribute a disproportionate number of back and other injuries to national...

Thousands of workers are exposed to loud noises every day; for some, the noise level of their job presents a real risk of long-term...

Workers can be compensated for their injuries in a variety of ways. Medical Care: Hospital and medical expenses that arise as a result of...

Workplace injuries can cause more than just physical damage. Especially in cases involving permanent life-altering injuries,...

Under workers’ compensation law, independent contractors are not covered by workers’ compensation insurance policies. Some companies will...

If you have suffered an injury on the job and you were thinking of hiring an attorney, you might ask yourself if the stress of seeking...

A proposal by Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC) Administrator/CEO Steve Buehrer could soon see a double-digit reduction in...

Ohio has fallen into an unacceptable and tragic trend: a worker suffers a fatal workplace accident almost every week in the state,...

Falls are the number one cause of construction-related worker injuries, and they are often due to inadequate safety measures. Many fall...

A tragic fatal workplace accident left a construction worker dead and a truck driver injured in Cincinnati on January 19, 2015. A highway...

Ohio coal miners can breathe a little bit easier now that the federal government requires all coal digging machines to incorporate...

If a worker is injured at his or her place of employment, it is not a guarantee that a workers’ compensation claim will be respected in...

The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited scrap processing firm CS metals after it...

The Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC) declared 2014 to be the year of workplace safety, citing lowered rates of workers’...

A retaliatory action by Air Methods Corp., the largest U.S. provider of air medical transportation services, left a pilot unemployed...

The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has hit Formed Fiber Technologies LLC, a company that...

Late last year, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) cited Haverhill Chemicals LLC for the...

The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA) conducts safety inspections based on the priority of...

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) can cite employers if they neglect to keep records on workplace injuries or...

Many companies are repeat offenders when it comes to violations of Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA) codes....

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA) recently placed Kent, Ohio-based The Davey Tree Expert Co. in the Severe...

All-Set Roofing and Construction Inc. was hit with a hefty $44,600 fine after the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and...

Firefighter Larry Heczko lost his life in an accident on November 13, 2014, when a wall he was working on collapsed. He fell 12 feet and...

The Coldwater, Ohio-based Tastemorr rice cake manufacturing plant was hit with seven violations of Occupational Safety and Health...