By William Powell of Powell & Denny | Published September 7, 2019 | Posted in Alabama Workers Compensation Attorneys, Birmingham Workers' Compensation Lawyers, Huntsville Workers' Compensation Attorneys | Tagged Tags: al, alabama, alabama job injury, alabama job injury lawyers, alabama workers compensation, alabama workers compensation attorney, attorney, benefits, best, Birmingham, birmingham workers' compensation lawyers, experienced, garbage, garbage truck death, huntsville, huntsville workers compensation attorneys, injury question, job injuries, job injury, lawyers, right, sanitation workers, top, waste management, workers compensation |
Waste Management workers are in the top three job classifications at risk for injuries or death.
The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health reports waste management workers are in the top three job classifications at risk for injuries or death. When you think about it, it isn’t surprising. Jumping on and off a large garbage truck, lifting heavy items, being cut by broken glass or stuck by improperly disposed of needles. Read More
Read MoreEmergency medical technicians (EMTs) suffer Job Injuries four times higher than all other professions
Emergency medical technicians (EMTs), who provide basic life support services, and paramedics, who also provide advanced life support services, suffer work injuries requiring treatment in the emergency room at a rate four times higher than workers in all other professions in the United States, according to one federal study. It’s not just EMTs who suffer Read More
Read More60 Percent of Nursing Assistants in Nursing Homes Incur Job Injuries
60%…bet the number is really higher, but that those who suffer job injuries don’t report all their injuries. If you are a Health Care worker in Alabama, you probably are not surprised to hear that health care workers (such as nurses, certified nursing assistants (CNA), physical therapist, occupational therapist, etc.) suffer back injuries as a Read More
Read MoreYou Need an Alabama Workers Compensation Attorney IV
Every day in Alabama, a worker suffers some type of job injury; while most of the incidents are minor in nature and require only one or two visits to the workers’ compensation physician, it is not always easy to tell whether an injury is merely a sprained muscle or something which will require surgery. What Read More
Read MoreWhy You Need an Alabama Workers Compensation Attorney
Every day in Alabama, a worker suffers some type of job injury*; while most of the incidents are minor in nature and require only one or two visits to the workers’ compensation physician, it is not always easy to tell whether an injury is merely a sprained muscle or something which will require surgery. What Read More
Read MoreCan I still bring a claim for workers’ compensation benefits if I did not immediately file an injury report?
Please remember- it is not an accident report that is to be filed, it is an INJURY report. This is not just a matter of semantics. Under Alabama law, employers are to file an injury report once they have been informed that one of their employees believes that they have suffered a job injury; there Read More
Read MoreOccupational Disease
If you work in Alabama, you are not only entitled to workers’ compensation benefits when you suffer a work injury, you also may be entitled to workers’ compensation benefits if you suffer a job illness which leads to a permanent loss–this is called an Occupational Disease. An occupational disease differs from a typical situation where Read More
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