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Who is liable in a work-related car accident?
Accidents happen all the time at the workplace, but work-related accidents may occur nearly anywhere, even while traveling in a vehicle, depending on the circumstances. If an employee suffers an injury in a car accident while on the job or while doing something that directly benefits the company, the accident…
America’s worst job?
They only come out at night: the sanitation crews at slaughterhouses. They descend on the factory floors with a “nightly storm of high-pressure hoses, chemical vapors, blood, grease, and frantic deadlines, all swirling in clouds of steam around pulsing belts, blades, and blenders,” Bloomberg reports. The nightmare setting gets worse…
Ranking Charlotte’s riskiest jobs
When you walk, bike, ride the bus or drive around Charlotte, you see people doing a wide variety of jobs with varying degrees of risk involved. From crane operators to taxi cab drivers to office workers to retail clerks and beyond, the dangers of workplace accidents and injuries shifts from job to…
Somber anniversary of a North Carolina worker tragedy
A few days ago, we here in North Carolina saw the passing of a terrible anniversary: on September 3 it was 26 years to the day since a deadly fire at a Hamlet factory. Twenty-five workers died in the blaze at the chicken processing plant and another 40 were injured.…
Helping an injured worker return to their Charlotte job
According to federal government statistics, there are about 3 million non-fatal work injuries per year. Of those, more than half of the hurt workers required time away from their jobs to recuperate. Of course, many of the injured workers required workers’ compensation benefits that include medical care and partial wage replacement. For…
Workplace injury risks for teens
Many of our Charlotte readers know that one of the proudest moments a parent has is when their child gets their first job. Whether it’s a part-time job at a car wash or restaurant or office, it can be a big part of the transition from teen to adult. While…
Workplace accidents: Where unsafe conditions meet unsafe acts
H.W. Heinrich was an American pioneer in the field of industrial safety. The principles he laid out in his groundbreaking 1931 book “Industrial Accident Prevention: A Scientific Approach” are still discussed and in use today. One of Heinrich’s assertions was that 88 percent of workplace accidents are caused by unsafe…
North Carolina remembers workers who lost their lives on the job
The number is large and startling: 150. That’s how many North Carolina workers lost their lives while on the job in the state in 2015. The state branch of the AFL-CIO recently held a workers’ memorial event at the State Capitol. A bell tolled for each victim as family members and friends…
Easing injured workers back into their jobs
Employers are always eager to save money, but many are missing out on opportunities to do so, experts say. Employers who give injured workers light duties to help ease them back into their jobs after injuries can find their related costs reduced. They can save in workers’ compensation expenses and training, while…
The issue of intentionality in workplace accidents
Workers’ compensation is that insurance that deals with North Carolina work-related injuries in a no-fault context. The idea is that, once a workers’ compensation claim is made and resolved, the employee cannot allege the employer is to blame for what happened. This is what “exclusive remedy” means. What if the workplace…
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