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17 Aug

Texas Workplace Accident Causes Severe Burns on Three Employees

Three workers are currently in a hospital recovering from a horrifying workplace accident that occurred at a Church’s Chicken in Livingston, Texas. The floor collapsed beneath the three workers and the grease from the ...

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8 Aug

Two Die in a Fatal Workplace Accident at a Texas Wastewater Treatment Plant

Last month, two Texas wastewater treatment plant employees fell unconscious while repairing a pipe valve that had been leaking sludge the basement. While the two were semi-conscious during the rescue, one of the workers ...

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13 Jun

Why is OSHA Investigating ExxonMobil’s Beaumont Refinery Plant?

It seems the ExxonMobil refinery in Beaumont, Texas is under scrutiny because since 2013, at least one person has died in a fatal workplace accident every year. This year’s victim was a contract worker who was struck b...

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18 May

Why is OSHA Raising Concerns About Lawnmowers?

In March, the Austin Police Department responded to a 9-1-1 phone call about an overturned lawnmower in a ditch. When they arrived on the scene, they discovered that a 25-year-old landscaping worker had been thrown into ...

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4 May

Are Texas Opt Out Laws Creating a “Pathway to Poverty?”

An injured worker recently settled with her company that had previously denied her workers’ compensation for medical care and lost wages after she was injured on the job. She was injured while working at an Oklahoma ho...

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27 Apr

What Construction Work Standards is Travis County Adopting?

The Workers Defense Project (WPD) received a victory this month when the Travis County Commissioners Court granted the request that would ensure Austin construction workers will receive better treatment. The court ruling...

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20 Apr

Why is DuPont Closing Its Texas Plant?

More than a year and a half ago, two brothers worked alongside each other for more than six years at DuPont’s chemical plant in La Porte, Texas. However, a chemical leak sprung one tragic Saturday morning. One brother ...

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6 Apr

Texas Legislatures Considering Workers’ Compensation Reforms

A Blue Bell worker who had been with the company for five years was disassembling a machine to clean it when the machine suddenly turned on. The worker, who was also a college student, lost three fingers on his left hand...

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16 Mar

Workers Injured in Explosion at Texas Chemical Plant

Last week, a large fire broke out after an explosion at a Pasadena petrochemical refinery shut down the Houston Ship Channel and injured a worker. The Houston Press calls this plant the “petrochemical epicenter” as i...

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7 Mar

Why is This Injured State Worker Being Sued?

Four years ago, a worker at a Giddings State School, a youth lockup just outside East Austin, expected a New Year’s Eve night to pass without incident. But just after midnight, the dorm inmates had engaged in a riot. T...

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22 Feb

Decision to Award Injured Texas Worker Lifetime Benefits Dependent on “Imbecility”

In 2008, a Texas worker who suffered a traumatic brain injury is eligible for a lifetime of workers’ compensation benefits. While his severe brain injury should be enough to receive these benefits in and of itself, the...

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17 Feb

Why Employees Can’t Afford to Fall Down While Working in Texas

A worker from Waco was unloading his truck in San Antonio more than two years ago when a bundle of PVC pipes slipped and forced the worker to the ground. The worker felt a pop in his knee and the pipes rolled onto him on...

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10 Feb

Why Are Texas Employers Continuing to Opt Out of Workers’ Comp?

In spite of a series of juries ruling against workers’ comp nonsubscribers last year, many employers are continuing to opt out of workers’ comp and face the risk of running into expensive lawsuits. For more than 100 ...

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3 Feb

Insurance Company Mistakes in Documentation Could Doom Your Workers Comp Claim

Last year, a Houston truck driver submitted his workers comp claim to Texas courts in order to receive benefits that have been denied to him for years. His company’s workers’ compensation insurance carrier is not den...

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18 Jan

Why is This Area of Texas Called Asbestos Alley?

Texas cities have quite a few interesting and fun nicknames. Amarillo is called “The Big Brown Flat,” McAllen is “The Square Dance Capital City of the World” and (of course) Austin, also known as “the Live Musi...

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