Blog: Injuries

Every year, dangerous diesel exhaust fumes kill more than 38,000 people throughout the world. Workers exposed to toxic gases emitted from diesel vehicles and machinery are developing lung cancer, asthma, and chronic pulmonary disease. Employers have a duty to shield their employees from the dangers associated with diesel exhaust exposure. Employees who work near these […]

A recent report by AmTrust Financial Services, Inc. outlined trends in retail-industry Workers’ Compensation claims over a three-year period. The report provided data regarding the types of injuries common in the retail sector, the jobs that pose the most risk for injury, as well as insight into the demographics of the workers who reported claims. […]

Every year, pinch point injuries affect employee health and employer productivity. In fact, reports of 110,000 annual hand injuries alone keep people from performing their jobs. Some of the injuries are severe enough to warrant that individuals remain on Workers’ Compensation for long periods. The best way to avoid debilitating pinch point injuries is to […]

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) was in the news recently after they revised their Enforcement Weighting System (EWS), which assigns different values to their investigation and inspection categories. It uses a value of Enforcement Units, and the minimum weighting a category can receive is one EU. The EWS is used to rate the […]