A lawsuit has been filed against the Kroger Co. and against an employee at one of their stores due to a slip and fall injury. The lawsuit alleges that the victim was shopping at the supermarket when she slipped on a wet surface near...
The City of Houston is trying to educate people as to how to survive an incident where an active shooter invades their workplace or another location. The city produced a video that offers a dramatization of a shooter, armed with a shotgun, walking through...
Well-known public figures William H Macy and Felicity Huffman have been hit with a lawsuit over a staircase at their home, according to reporting by TMZ. The woman filing the lawsuit claims that she fell down the stairway in April of 2011, sustaining injuries. The...
BP Products North America, Inc. has agreed to settle citations issued against them for a sum total of $13 million. The citations were issued against the Texas City refinery. According to reporting on BLR, the refinery had a slew of issues with safety, resulting...
A situation involving a wet floor with no sign to mark it ended up in a lawsuit being filed in Jefferson County. The lawsuit, as reported by the Southeast Texas Record, has been file against an O'Reilly Auto Parts store. Spills The lawsuit in Jefferson County...
EHSToday.com recently ran an article that will be of interest to some employers. The article comes after a construction company was cleared of charges that they did not properly record some accidents. There are specific regulations that apply to how injuries in the workplace...
Falling on hazardous floors is the leading cause of accidental death among the elderly, according to studies done by the National Floor Safety Institute. The editor of EHT magazine, where are article detailing the study was published, said that 8 million people seek emergency...
National Young Worker Safety Day was held on June 25 in College Station. The event is the kickoff of a campaign being undertaken by CareerSafe Online that has the goal of educating 1 million students by December 31, 2015. Younger workers are disproportionally likely to...
When you see a great orchestra performing, do you think about them as workers? Many of the best orchestras in the world employ their musicians much as does any other employer. When these workers are injured, they have the same rights to compensation as does...
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