Category: Industrial Workers’ Accidents

Heat stress is one thing industrial workers must deal with when they work with high-heat zones or in hot outdoor conditions during the summer months in Maryland. When employees are exposed to long periods of time in high temperatures, they can be at risk of heat stress or other 

Have you been hurt at work in Laurel, Maryland? There are so many kinds of injuries you might have suffered as a construction worker; you could have fallen from great heights off scaffolding, fell from a ladder, been knocked over the side of a bridge or even fallen from the side or...

Changes are coming to the way that the Occupational Safety and Health Administration does business in Maryland and elsewhere starting in January of 2015. For one thing, the reporting rules are going to change for business owners. As of right now, if an employee is killed on the job,...

Each year the Maryland Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation partners with the Division of Labor and Industry and the U. S. Department of Labor to compile a report of all workplace accidents throughout the state. The Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses gathers data on not only how workers became injured...

The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited a Maryland-based company for 11 violations for their role in the death of a 35-year-old worker. Eight of the 11 violations OSHA says the company committed were considered to have violated workplace safety standards. A fine accompanied the citations in the amount of...

Laurel, Maryland, readers may have heard about this building collapse that resulted in the deaths of two men. According to the news from Jan. 21, an industrial accident in Omaha, Nebraska, left multiple people injured and two dead after a building collapsed. The collapse was allegedly due to an explosion,...

Maryland-based readers may have heard about this horrible industrial accident. According to a Dec. 31 report, an industrial accident that took place at Reynolds Excavating resulted in the injury and death of a 73-year-old man. According to the news, the man was driving a dump truck when it overturned, killing him.

Industrial accidents are dangerous and often cause serious injuries and deaths. The dangerous work environments that surround them make industrial accidents more likely to be severe incidents. Maryland-based readers may have heard about a recent incident involving a 61-year-old man who was working at the Deep River Dyeing Company in...

If you're injured at work in Maryland, you will want to take steps to seek medical assistance, and you probably expect that your employer will take care of the costs through a workers' compensation claim. In an industrial accident, you could be seriously injured, and this could lead to...

If you're injured at work, you may have options to help you get back on your feet. Workers' compensation, along with disability and a few other options, can provide you with an income and medical aid that you could need throughout this difficult time of your life. If you've been involved in...