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An Austin company fined by OSHA is facing serious penalties after a workplace accident. Genesis Today Inc. is facing a $56,000 fine for safety violations after a worker lost a hand in one of the company’s machines. Inj...
read moreThe average number of days injured workers in Texas spend away from work has decreased, according to a new report by the Texas Department of Insurance's Workers' Compensation Research and Evaluation Group. In 2013, inju...
read moreMany Texas work injuries that occur are documented poorly by employers and insurance companies. Some aren’t reported at all. As a result, no one really knows how many Texans are injured at work. What is reported about...
read moreThe Texas Department of Insurance has hit an insurer with a $250,000 fine, which is believed to be the largest fine ever issued for workers’ compensation violations in Texas. The wife of the man who was killed on the j...
read moreThe Texas Supreme Court recently ruled an injured Texas worker who suffered a back injury cannot receive lifetime workers’ compensation benefits because she did not demonstrate that her claim was directly related to ac...
read moreA Texas appellate court recently upheld most of a $780,000 jury verdict against a Texas workers comp nonsubscriber. A nonsubscriber means a company in Texas that does not carry workers' comp insurance. The worker was ...
read moreA firefighter diagnosed with colon cancer seeks to receive workers compensation, as he bravely fought fires in the city of Bedford for over 20 years. The 51-year-old man, whose cancer has spread to his liver and lungs, ...
read moreInjured workers sometimes need to be transported by air ambulance helicopter due to their injuries. The transport may be from the scene of an injury to a hospital or from one hospital to another. In recent years, the num...
read moreCurrently, near 1.2 million people in the beauty care industry may be frequently exposed to harmful chemicals in their work environment. Roughly 375,000 nail technicians out of this number are at even greater risk for ch...
read moreIn today’s world of mobile devices, iPads, wireless headsets and laptops, it seems no matter where we go, work can go with us if we choose. Employers have jumped at the chance to provide new technology to workers with ...
read moreSmartphones, apps, and on-demand services have grown ubiquitous in just the past five to ten years. Nearly half of all adults, globally, own a smartphone, and those numbers are growing. Out of smartphone technology has c...
read moreTragically, last November, four workers were killed at a La Porte plant by a toxic gas leak, with DuPont being cited 11 times recently for safety violations following an investigation into the incident. According to th...
read moreDo you know any Austin EMS workers? Have they talked about the dangers and stress associated with their jobs? Recently, the Austin Chronicle had an excellent in-depth story about Austin-Travis County Emergency Medica...
read moreSadly, each year, more than 4,000 workers are killed on-the-job in the United States, with almost 500 employees in Texas dying in workplace accidents. With this in mind, recently the Houston Chronicle had a story about...
read moreAccording to the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, earlier this month, a man was killed in a warehouse accident at a business park in the city. Reports indicate that on April 7, 66-year-old was driving a floor sweeper when he ...
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