Pennsylvania/New Jersey Premises Liability Law and On-the-Job Injury
Your Rights When Work Injuries Occur on Unsafe Property Not everyone goes to an office to do their job. Construction workers, delivery persons, house cleaners, plumbers, repair workers, and others travel to properties that are not owned by their employer in order to do their job. What happens when a worker is injured because a […]
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Defective Construction Tools and Equipment
Who is Responsible for Defective Construction Tools, Machinery, and Equipment Injuries? If you work at a construction site, you know your job has risks. So, you wear your hard hat and steel toe boots, follow safety procedures and keep your workspace free from known hazards. You don’t expect the machines, tools and equipment that you […]
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OSHA’s TOP TEN: Most Frequently Cited Workplace Safety Violations
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration or OSHA is the branch of the U.S. Department of Labor responsible for ensuring that every American has safe and healthy working conditions. OSHA protects American workers by enforcing safety standards and providing safety training to employers and workers. American employers are required to comply with OSHA safety standards […]
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Protect Your Right to a Safe Workplace
How to Report an OSHA Violation in Your NJ/PA Workplace Every worker in Pennsylvania and New Jersey has a right to a safe workplace. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is the federal agency responsible for creating and enforcing workplace safety regulations. It is OSHA’s responsibility to identify safety violations and unsafe workplace practices […]
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Work Zone Accidents
Most drivers hate highway construction sites. The speed limit is reduced. Lanes suddenly end causing a back-up in traffic. Lanes are narrower than usual and signs can be confusing. There is a higher than usual risk of work zone accidents. As dangerous as work zones are for drivers, they are even more dangerous for the […]
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Claiming Compensation for Work Related Motor Vehicle Accidents
Who Pays for an On-the-Job Traffic Accident in PA or NJ? Carlos is an HVAC repair man. He is on an emergency call to fix a home heating system in Lancaster. He is driving on I-76 when his vehicle skids on patch of black ice and slides off the road and into a concrete wall. […]
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Workplace Deaths
Filing a Claim for the Loss of a Loved One When you say “goodbye” in the morning, you expect that you’ll see your loved one after work. You don’t expect that your conversation about who is picking up the children is the last time you’ll ever talk. What if your loved one never comes home? […]
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Third-Party Injury Claims for Pennsylvania’s Oil and Gas Workers
The oil and gas industry is booming in Pennsylvania. New technology, including hydraulic fracturing, has created thousands of jobs. More than 31,000 Pennsylvanians work in the oil and gas industry. Including drillers, roustabouts, truck drivers, engineers, equipment operators, treaters, and construction laborers. Most of these jobs pay well, but with the high paycheck comes high […]
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A Worker’s Guide to OSHA Regulations and the Right to a Safe Workplace
What is OSHA? In the early 1900’s, factories were dangerous work places. There were no regulations to protect workers from chemicals, dusts and dangerous machines. In 1913, Congress created the Department of Labor. One of the Department’s main purposes was “to improve worker safety.” Conditions for some workers improved, but there were still many occupations […]
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Injured in a Pennsylvania Mining Accident?
Our Mining Accident Attorneys Can Help Pennsylvania is known for its coal mines, but coal is only one of the many natural resources mined in Pennsylvania. Noncoal products from Pennsylvania include soil, sand, gravel, clay, limestone, dolomite, shale, sandstone, slate and a variety of other rocks and minerals used in road construction, building construction, agriculture, […]
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