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...
Attorneys Serving Louisiana, Texas and Mississippi
Work-related Injuries
Louisiana’s oil and gas industry: huge and risk-laden
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...
Hurricane seasons brings broad-based risks for many Louisiana workers
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...
Worksite mishap spotlights regulators’ huge concern with crane safety
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,...
New findings on traumatic brain injury emerge
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...
Workplace safety czar spotlights top-tier on-the-job risks
“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...
Forklift safety: a strong reason for close and regular scrutiny
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...
Excessive heat an obvious summertime workplace nemesis
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,...
Purposeful, meaningful action following the loss of a loved one
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...
Is there a core group of injury contributors in American workplaces?
Candidly, health and safety regulators focused on America's vast and varied workplaces don't confine themselves to limited terrain in searching out and addressing dangers to workers. They know that dangerous sources and linked injury catalysts exist across a broad...
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Our team of dedicated Louisiana, Texas and Mississippi attorneys represent injured persons throughout Louisiana, including Alexandria, Opelousas, Baton Rouge, Lafayette, Lake Charles, Houma-Thibodeaux, New Orleans, Shreveport, Monroe, and throughout Mississippi and areas of Texas including Orange, Beaumont, Port Arthur, Austin, San Antonio, Dallas, and Houston and the other metro areas.