OIG Finds Flaws in OSHA’s Fatality and Severe Injury Reporting Program

• 09/21/18
• National Safety Council

Washington, DC — OSHA is not doing enough to ensure it has complete information on work-related deaths and severe injuries, and is not consistent in citing establishments that fail to file required ...
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NY State Corrections Officer Charged With Defrauding Workers' Comp By Working At A Bar While Claiming He Was Not Employed At All

• 09/21/18
• WorkersCompensation.com

Albany, NY (WorkersCompensation.com) - New York State Inspector General Catherine Leahy Scott today announced the arrest of a New York State prisons corrections officer on charges he defrauded the ...
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Cal/OSHA Issues Citations for Fatal Waste Collection Truck Accident

• 09/21/18
• WorkersCompensation.com

Fremont, CA (WorkersCompensation.com) - Cal/OSHA has issued citations to GreenWaste Recovery Inc. after a waste collection worker was fatally run over by his own truck in San Jose. An investigation found ...
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Unlike NFL Players - 53 Pro Wrestlers Lose CTE Case

• 09/21/18
• WorkCompAcademy.com

Sacramento, CA - The National Football League, which entered a concussion-related settlement that has been valued at approximately $1 billion, is far from the only organization affected by the emergence of ...
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MEMIC’s Stowell Receives Rising Tide Award for Patient Safety

• 09/20/18
• WorkersCompensation.com

Portland, ME (WorkersCompensation.com) - For more than 30 years MEMIC’s Beth Stowell, a senior loss control consultant to the health care industry, has worked to improve safety for patients and their ...
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Drop That Donut: Workers Consuming 1,000 Extra Calories at Work, Researchers Say

• 09/20/18
• National Safety Council

Boston, MA — Bagels and donuts during the breakfast meeting. Cake for birthday celebrations. Deli sandwiches during a lunch seminar. Consuming extra food is a common occurrence for many workers. But ...
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WA L&I Proposes Significant Drop in Workers' Comp Rates for 2019

• 09/20/18
• WorkersCompensation.com

Tumwater, WA (WorkersCompensation.com) - The price of workers' compensation insurance in Washington will likely drop significantly in 2019. Today the state Department of Labor & Industries (L&I) ...
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WA AG’s Hanford Worker Safety Lawsuit Leads to Big Win for Workers

• 09/20/18
• WorkersCompensation.com

Olympia, WA (WorkersCompensation.com) - Attorney General Bob Ferguson today announced that the U.S. Department of Energy will conduct testing and, if successful, begin implementing a new system to treat or ...
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NIOSH Issues Research Agendas for Wholesale and Retail Trade Sector, Traumatic Injury Prevention

• 09/18/18
• National Safety Council

Washington, DC — NIOSH has published its National Occupational Research Agenda for Wholesale and Retail Trade, as well as its NORA for Traumatic Injury Prevention – both intended to spotlight the ...
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