Workers’ Compensation

Earlier this month a construction worker from Pennsylvania was injured when he fell off a ladder. At the time of the construction accident, he was working on the façade of a car dealership. The drop from the ladder to the...

The recent shooting at Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic in which one worker died and five others employed at the facility were injured, has put many who work in the field of health care on edge. In an effort to...

Hershey is undoubtedly one of Pennsylvania's most well known businesses. The company's chocolate candy bars are loved by people of all ages. It is unlikely that many people consuming the company's confections are thinking about all of the people who...

Workers' compensation benefits are available to employees who are injured on the job. Though every business in Pennsylvania is required to purchase a workers' compensation policy, the benefits are not always easy to obtain. To get them, the injured worker...

As we have discussed in previous posts, when it comes to injuries on the job, the occupation of construction worker is generally considered to be one of the most dangerous jobs around. This is in part due to the size...

Recently a company located about and hour and half outside of Pittsburgh agreed to a settlement regarding an injury that an underage employee sustained as a result of a work accident. The $50,000 penalty J.N. Pallet Co. reportedly agreed to...

In our last post we wrote about a garbage worker who was injured after he was hit by a car while emptying garbage cans. This week we write about another Pennsylvania resident who was injured as a result of being...

Usually when people hear about truckers dying while working, it is on the road in a motor vehicle accident of some sort. This is of course not the only way a trucker can die on the job however. A trucker...

It is necessary for many residents of Pennsylvania to work at a job to make a living. These people go to a variety of different workplaces where they undertake a variety of different jobs. Some of those jobs are more...

Gas driller, Target Drilling, located in Smithton, Pennsylvania, was recently fined by the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration for violations it uncovered while investigating the death of an employee that occurred this past summer. Though serious, the violations were...

Most Pennsylvania residents would agree that firefighting is a noble but dangerous occupation. Rescuing people from burning buildings is not a job that just anyone can do. Those who select and are successful in the occupation must anticipate problems and...

A former Fayette County physician, whose license was suspended in 2003, died at a recycling center in an industrial accident eerily similar to one that cost another employee his life 14 years before at the same facility. The fatal accident...