An accident at work can always happen. The good thing is that injuries and diseases that you get on the job are your employer’s responsibility. However, that doesn’t mean that your employer can force you to go to the doctor of their choice. In Minnesota, you have the...
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Workplace Accidents
What risks do manufacturing workers face on the job?
When workers arrive at a production facility, they are often surrounded by reminders of the risks involved in this work. Signs warning of hazards, required training and other reminders make it clear that injuries are possible every day on the job. What risks do...
Injured workers may be entitled to more compensation than they think
Most people know that workers who are injured on the job are entitled to workers' compensation benefits. What many do not know is that they may be entitled to additional compensation, depending upon the circumstances of the accident. If a negligent third party caused...
Shaming companies for safety violations gets results: Study
When you go to work in Minnesota, your employer is obligated to provide a safe environment for you to do your job. Unfortunately, some ignore their obligations, putting workers at risk of a serious accident or injury. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration...
The dangers of trench cave-ins
When employers in Minnesota allow excavation workers to enter an unprotected trench, they are placing those individuals at a serious risk of injury and death. Unprotected trench walls can suddenly collapse on workers without giving any kind of warning. At around 3,000...
Reducing workplace fall injury accidents
Every year in Minnesota, numerous workers are seriously injured or killed when they fall while performing their duties. Although the construction industry accounts for the highest number of fatal fall accidents, the health care, retail and wholesale industries have...
OSHA issues fine after worker dies in Minnesota
An Illinois business has been fined after one of its employees died in an accident on the job near New Prague. The accident happened in August 2013 while Aldridge Electric worked on the CapX2020 electric transmission line. Two people fell into a hole that was made for...
OSHA investigates reason for fall of performers
In an incident that grabbed the attention of circus fans in Minnesota, authorities reported that an accident involving eight circus performers in Rhode Island was due to the failure of a clamp after the part failed. The clamp was part of a welded rigging developed by...
One person injured, one missing after natural gas well explosion
Minnesota readers may be interested in an account of a natural gas well explosion that took place in Pennsylvania recently. One person is missing, and another was injured following the explosion, which took place at about 6:45 a.m. on Feb. 11. The well caught fire and...
Minnesota ambulance hits SUV head-on, 3 hospitalized
On Jan. 18, an Allina Health ambulance hit an SUV head-on in Buffalo Township. A 43-year-old emergency medical technician was driving the ambulance while a 30-year-old paramedic was in the passenger seat. They were transporting a 35-year-old woman to Allina Hospital...