Work-related Injuries

Most of the time, workers' compensation takes care of people who get hurt on the job. As long as you are a direct employee and develop a medical condition or injury while working, workers' compensation likely covers you.   You can get short-term and long-term...

Implement strict protocols about workers wearing protective gear around power tools and machinery. Require supervisors to follow up promptly and in accordance with company policies concerning worker illnesses and injuries. Ensure that appropriate safety training is...

Is Louisiana's oil and gas industry important to the state?Does a dog bark? Candidly, it's hard to even meaningfully address how vital that work sphere is to the state's bottom line, as measured by virtually any yardstick. Following are some relevant numbers that...

Louisiana home dwellers immediately come to mind in virtually any discussion of hurricane risks and adverse outcomes in the state, of course. Federal and state safety regulators want an equally strong focus placed on the perils that state workers in many spheres face...

State and federal workplace safety officials in Louisiana and nationally routinely express outsized concerns with cranes used in construction projects and the need to keep their operations safe. And for good reason, of course. Cranes are materially complex machines,...

Could it largely be about so-called "lymphatic vessels?"Long held in the scientific community to be nonexistent, lymphatic vessels were first identified only recently by researchers at the University of Virginia. The vessels reside in the brain, serving to clean that...

 “Throwing good money after bad” is an expression sometimes used to spotlight dollars spent on ventures and programs that have already proven to be failures. According to federal safety officials, that is decidedly not the case regarding funds that...

Forklifts are so common in the American workplace landscape that most people likely never give them a thought. Arguably, they are the essential work assist and daily MVP in diverse factory, industrial, retail and other environments. Employers in virtually all realms...

Some mantras are, well, just words. Others convey fundamentally important messages.Like this one: Water, rest, shade. To legions of workers in diverse industries across Louisiana and the country, those few words are cautionary. And when the workplace is intensely hot,...

Third-party negligence rears its ugly head recurrently across Louisiana and the rest of the country, yielding adverse results for individuals and families imperiled by its occurrence.Tragically, the results spawned in its wake are often deadly, with consequences that...