The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited a Georgia wood-treating company and its maintenance firm for exposing workers to high levels of arsenic, actions that could result in as much as $180,000 in fines. OSHA opened an investigation …
The National Council on Compensation Insurance has elected Brandon Fick as its new board chairman, replacing Lisa Corless. Fick is chief underwriting officer for Liberty Mutual Global Risk Solutions, North America. He was elected at the NCCI annual meeting in …
While the property/casualty insurance industry overall may have seen a slight loss in profitability in 2022, workers’ compensation continues to be the most profitable line, with a “very healthy” nationwide reserve redundancy level of $17 billion. “The system is healthy …
Most people will be familiar with the posters at workplaces noting the number of days since a lost-time work injury. Well, there’s a dirty little secret behind that, one that helps employers avoid higher experience modifications on their workers’ compensation …
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) – Two workers were being treated for chemical burns Friday after one fell into a vat at a Grand Rapids electroplating plant, authorities said. The Grand Rapids Fire Department was sent on a hazardous materials call …
HOUSTON (AP) – Fire erupted at a petrochemical plant in the Houston area Friday, leaving five workers hospitalized and sending up a huge plume of smoke visible for miles. Emergency responders were called to help around 3 p.m. at the …
Construction crews had placed “insufficient support” beneath part of an upper floor that collapsed during renovations on the 124-year-old federal courthouse in Savannah, according to the government agency overseeing the project. Three construction workers were injured April 11 when a …
Summit Consulting, a manager of five workers’ compensation insurance companies in the Southeast, has named Robert Darin Grimm senior vice president of claims. Grimm, who holds a doctorate from the University of South Florida’s college of business, joined Summit in …
The Tennessee General Assembly has approved a workers’ compensation presumption that post-traumatic stress disorder is work-related for firefighters, joining several other states that have adopted mental health presumptions in recent years. Senate Bill 856, sponsored by state Rep. Johnny Garrett, …
A longtime worker at a North Carolina furniture products company, described as a model employee, died in 2020 under somewhat mysterious circumstances. Co-workers described hearing a “strange noise” as Rodney Baker was cleaning around a running band saw machine. Baker …
