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Impaired Visibility: Protecting Workers

Among the many things that employers have to think about, one of them concerns the way that work spaces are laid out and how workers must physically navigate them every day. It’s important that work processes are well set up and designed for safety. Otherwise, unfortunate accidents could devastate frontline workers and severely impact the […]

Truck Accidents Cause Mayhem in Peoples’ Lives

Truck Accidents Thousands are killed or injured in accidents that involve commercial trucks. An average automobile weighs around 3,000 lbs. The weight of a semi-truck is more than 75,000 lbs. When a trailer-truck is involved in an auto collision, the outcome is usually disastrous and painful. Drivers, passengers involved in such accidents suffer grievous injuries […]

Heat Illness and Injury on the Site

Among the many dangers that physical trade workers have to look out for, there are seasonal issues that must be addressed by employers. One of them is the risk of illness or injury from excessive heat in hot weather. A Double Threat There are many cases in which, without adequate safeguards, workers may simply collapse […]

Construction Falls

In evaluating a trip and fall case, professional workplace injury attorneys must closely examine the details and facts to understand how an accident happened and whether any third parties have a responsibility to compensate the injury victim. Some of these types of details involve the extent of the accident, and thus, the extent of the […]

Study on sleep-deprived surgeons

Most people who are going in for surgery in New York have no idea how much sleep their surgeon got the night before the procedure. Patients who find out that their surgeon was sleep-deprived may be more nervous about letting them perform the operation. However, researchers from the University of Toronto say that sleep deprivation may not actually affect surgeons’ ability to perform successful operations, and surgery-related problems occur at roughly the same rate whether or not a doctor has slept the night before.