In today's busy world, a distracted driver or someone who is texting and driving can cause an accident in the blink of an eye. Unfortunately minor and major car accidents happen everyday, and sometimes people suffer serious injuries.A Maryland woman was flown by...
Ever since the automobile was invented, there have been calls to make cars safer. Motor vehicles today truly are technological wonders that would have been inconceivable a century ago -- but folks today still aren't immune from car accidents. Advancements in car...
One of the important threads we're following in this blog is chronic back pain.Millions of people across the country and around the world face this type of pain. And sometimes the pain arises in contexts where workers' compensation or Social Security disability issues...
It's been a little over a month since we last wrote about construction accidents. In our November 1 post, we took note of evidence that immigrant workers tend to be affected at disproportionate rates by fatal workplace accidents.Though the evidence was from the New...
In the first part of this post, we raised the question of how the application of enhanced technology could make for a safer and smarter workplace.The types of applications we are talking about go far beyond traditional tools like personal protective equipment....
The technological revolution we are living through now has already transformed the way millions of people communicate and conduct many aspects of their daily lives.After all, the fabulous capacities of smartphones would have been the stuff of science fiction not that...
Issues relating to the eligibility for workers' compensation of construction employees who are injured in on-the-job accidents are one of the themes of this blog. In our September 20 post, for example, we discussed the lag in compliance with fall protection standards...
Workers' compensation systems operate at the state level. A partial federal government shutdown certainly provides a suitable occasion for a reminder of this.A state-based system means that Maryland has its own system for distributing compensation to workers injured...
It's been awhile since we last wrote about forklift injuries. In our March 1 post, we discussed the issue of safety training and how the lack of it can cause workers to be injured in forklift accidents.This week, let's look at a fatal accident that recently occured in...
Military facilities in Maryland and other states are by no means immune from laws that regulate workplace safety. And so when a civilian technician died at the Aberdeen Test Center while conducting routine maintenance, the federal Occupational Safety and Health...
