Category: Workplace Injury

As an employee, you may wonder how your union membership affects your rights and benefits, especially your workers’ compensation benefits. Unions play a significant role...

If you’re injured while working in New York state, workers’ compensation will likely cover the costs you’ll incur. You will, however, need to prove that...

In a recent decision from New York State’s Third Department of their Appellate Division, workers’ compensation claims from employees working from home must be decided...

by Michael Rose New York City police officers and firefighters regularly put their lives on the line in service to the public. These are extremely...

Every day an estimated 1,000 eye injuries occur in American workplaces. The financial cost of these injuries is enormous – more than $300 million annually...

Working on a construction site naturally comes with a significant risk of injury. Though it would benefit the injured construction worker to report the accident,...

There is a lot of confusion over RSD vs. CRPS. Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy, or RSD, is an older term for a medical condition now called...

According to the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, occupational asthma is a bigger problem than many realize. Also called workplace asthma, it develops because...

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration, also known as OSHA, dictates certain workplace guidelines and standards that employers must meet. Of course, employers break these...

Construction workers perform some of the most physically demanding and dangerous jobs. Not only must they be on their feet all day, operate dangerous machinery,...

If you have been injured on the job, you are likely entitled to claim workers’ compensation benefits from your employer’s workers’ comp policy. New York...

As WWI neared its end, young women across America worked in factories and unknowingly were injured by chemical exposure % toxins. One group of such...