Tips for Reporting a Workplace Injury
Accidents can happen at any time in the workplace, whether it’s the result of an employee’s carelessness or the employer’s negligence. Finding blame in an accident isn’t always easy. If an employee is injured, employers are responsible for taking action to protect them from further harm or injury. Even if the accident was the employee’s […]
Most Common Workplace Injuries in San Antonio
Workers are injured in San Antonio all the time. In fact, work related injuries are one of the most common reasons residents find themselves in hospital emergency rooms and doctor’s offices. Even with employee safety training programs and an increased focus on workplace safety, the workplace continues to put workers at risk for injury. Most […]
Common Mistakes when Reporting a Workplace Injury
If you are hurt in a workplace accident or have been diagnosed with an illness related to your line of work you may be entitled to compensation and restitution from your employer. The steps you make in the first few days of discovering your ailment will affect the outcome of your workplace injury claim. Here […]
What Does a Claimable Work Injury Entail?
If you have recently been injured while at work, you may be wondering if the injury will be covered by your worker’s compensation policy. Here are the basics on what is and what is not a claimable workplace injury. Injuries Not Covered with Workers Comp In general, if your injury was able to be treated […]
OSHA Releases New Confined Spaces Rule
Workers who operate their jobs in confined spaces know how dangerous it can be. While not all of us are put under those conditions, it’s not hard to understand why they can be so dangerous. OSHA mandates all kinds of rules to keep workers in all environments as safe as possible. While there already are […]
What’s the Process of a Slip and Fall Case in Texas?
It can be devastating to be caught up in a slip and fall case. It can happen to anyone: slipping on a freshly mopped floor where there are no caution signs, tripping on uneven sidewalk outside of a business, or falling down a step where there was no indication a step was coming up. If […]
Workers’ Compensation: An Eight Year Battle for One Man
When you get injured on the job, you expect the company you work for to step up and take care of the problem. Many injured Texas workers rely on worker’s compensation to cover their medical bills and lost wages until they are healed and able to work again. However, some companies do not provide worker’s […]
Texas Work Zone Accidents
The Associated General Contractors of America (AGC) recently released the 2015 Work Zone Awareness Survey results. The AGC surveyed more than 800 contractors across the country to complete this survey. In several areas, Texas work zones were found to be more dangerous than the national average. The first question asked workers if there had been […]
Oil Fields Workers Risk Injury
Road death numbers in America have been dropping steadily for decades. But road deaths are on the rise again in one state: Texas. Beginning in 2008, when the oil drilling and fracking boom began in Texas, the state has seen an increase in the number of road deaths, and “triple tragedies,” accidents that kill 3 […]