With more free time not their hands, teens drive more often during the summer months which can increase their risk of being involved in a motor vehicle accident. From Memorial Day to Labor Day, the number of crash incidents involving teens goes up dramatically and, unfortunately, sometimes teens and other motorists are injured or killed.… Read More »
Texting While Driving an Automatic Moving Violation July 1
July 1, drivers texting, talking or using any hand held device behind the wheel in Illinois will be ticketed with a moving violation. Let three violations stack up, and Illinois drivers will lose their license for a 12 month period. Although Illinois banned texting while driving years ago, lawmakers included a provision which gave first-time… Read More »
Workers’ Compensation for Truck Driver Neck and Back Injuries
Sometimes a doctor may recommend ACDF surgery to treat occupational related conditions such as herniated discs or degenerative disc diseases to provide relief. Anterior cervical discectomy or ACDF is a surgical procedure to remove a herniated or degenerative disc in the spine, which is then replaced by a spacer bone graft to fill the space.… Read More »
Roundup Makers to Pay $80 Million to Cancer Sufferer
Glyphosate, the main ingredient in most week killers used in commercial agriculture and home lawn care certainly cuts down on pesky weeds, but does it come with too high a price? Given the attention that the chemical is getting because of alleged links to cancer, some believe it may not be worth it to mess… Read More »
The Role That Fatigue Plays in Workplace Injuries
Although it does not go so far as recognizing workplace burnout as a medical condition, the World Health Organization (WHO) has classified the burnout many employees experience on the job as a bonafide occupational phenomenon in its International Classification of Diseases. Overworked, under compensated, with work related emails and texts to answer 24/7, many American… Read More »
Raising Awareness to Prevent Swimming Pool Drowning & Injury
May is National Water Safety Month and this year, organizers hope to raise pool and spa safety awareness ahead of the summer swimming season. Unfortunately, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) over 4,000 people lose their lives every year in drowning accidents in the U.S. Thousands of others suffer swimming pool… Read More »
Firefighter Injury Compensation
An Iowa firefighter who survived an 80 foot fall after an explosion at a silo inferno is speaking out about the perilous experience. Back in January, the 23-year-old man and another firefighter were putting out a fire on top of a silo when the structure caught fire. Soon after an explosion erupted knocking the firefighters… Read More »
Top Ten Workplace Safety Violations in 2018
Workplace injuries are often preventable when employers follow safety rule and regulations. Unfortunately, when safety is not a priority, the risk to workers being injured by workplace accidents increases. In 2018, OSHA issued thousands of citations that underscore some of the hazards workers face every day in the workplace. The top ten include: Fall… Read More »
Pedestrian Motor Vehicle Accidents Highest in 30 Years
While the number of motor vehicle traffic deaths involving drivers and passengers has decreased over the last decade, 2018 is projected to have the greatest number of pedestrian accidents since 1990. Over 6,000 pedestrians were killed in motor vehicle accidents last year alone. More than a third of pedestrian fatalities across the nation occurred on… Read More »
Surgical Center Injuries and Fatalities Under Fire
With a nod from federal regulators hoping to reduce costs, surgery centers are popping up across the nation offering a low cost alternative for minor surgeries and an every widening array of outpatient procedures. Unfortunately, as surgical centers have expanded their businesses, taking on increasingly risky procedures, some patients are paying the price in injuries… Read More »