Brain Injury

You’ve heard the saying “penny wise and pound foolish” — but we don’t often notice when people are guilty of this kind of misjudgment. It happens all the time in individual households, and it happens just as often in business. One of the biggest examples of this kind of irrational judgment revolves around issuing personal protective equipment (PPE) to workers. Federal regulators like the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration provide guidelines that include giving workers access to proper and appropriate safety gear according to the work activities that are expected to be done on the job. Some of the most common forms of PPE include:

• Goggles
• Hard hats or helmets
• Work gloves
• Steel-toed shoes or boots
• Protective chemical suiting

Part of the training of an injury lawyer involves being able to look at a worksite and identify safety issues or potential liability. But sometimes, these skills are sadly misplaced. They should not just be part of the injury attorney’s toolkit — they should also be part of what a competent manager or supervisor or other business leader brings to the job. So often, when work injury cases go to trial, it’s because there are any number of skilled people in the justice system who can see clear evidence of negligence or lack of attention to safety, but in the days and weeks and months before an accident, there was no one onsite who could understand that poor safety precautions were a liability for the company.

A Culture of “Don’t Worry About It”

Many of us tend to think of this year’s hard winter as a challenge in extremely urban areas like downtown New York City, but it also has its effects out in other more rural areas of the state. Reporting from February from local broadcast affiliate WENY shows snowfall and other factors impacting the community of Elmira, New York, just above the Pennsylvania state line and not too far from the Great Lakes area, south of Rochester and Syracuse. Some of the challenges reported in Elmira are emblematic of what happened in a lot of communities around the state. Locals reported on snow piles in parking lots impacting visibility, and large piles of snow lowering sight distances on busy streets. Signage can also be covered up, and intersections can become a lot more hazardous, in these kinds of situations. Drivers can find it harder to watch out for pedestrians or cyclists. The unprecedented obstacles that snow piles present can be dangerous.

Public Works and Public Responsibility

Elmira officials quoted in the WENY coverage talked about the challenges of keeping snow plowed and figuring out where to put it. As discussed in this article, there’s a balance between getting snow off of roadways and putting it in places where it won’t impact visibility for drivers. Then there’s the responsibility of local businesses and households to remove snow and ice from their local areas.

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