Saying that a Michigan construction company was “inviting tragedy on the job” by failing to safely protect employees from excavation accidents while they were working on a construction project in Toledo, an Ohio Department of Labor spokesperson announced penalties of $54,600 against the company. WPM Construction Services of Grand Blanc, Michigan, was inspected in…
Although today marks the last day of the National Motorcycle Safety Awareness Month campaign, the Ohio Highway Patrol is urging all motorists to keep the initiative’s themes and safety reminders centrally in mind, especially with the summer months approaching. Summer brings optimal driving conditions for motorcyclists, and there is no other time of the…
Concerned with reducing the number and severity of commercial truck accidents, and seeking to more closely regulate truckers generally, Congress enacted the Motor Carrier Act of 1980 to deregulate the trucking industry. Pursuant to new authority under that law, the Department of Transportation (“DOT”) began compiling safety records for carriers and individual drivers, as…
Everyone knows that the human costs associated with the many thousands of car accidents and other motor vehicle crashes occurring across the country each year are truly tragic. Economically, too, the numbers are staggering, as revealed by statistics released recently by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (“CDC”). In 2005, the most recent…
A tragic truck accident that occurred in 2009 on an interstate highway in Oklahoma is serving as a strong catalyst to promote frank and wide-ranging discussions among safety advocates and regulators and the truck industry regarding industry rules and recent recommendations. That accident was truly horrific, with 10 people dying after an overly fatigued…
Every year during summer, attention turns nationally toward recurring seasonal pastimes and pursuits: vacation, sports, cook outs, gardening and other outside activities. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (“OSHA”) and other worker safety groups are a bit tunnel-visioned when it comes to what most garners their attention over the same period. Summer is the…
A company’s enrollment in OSHA’s Severe Violator Enforcement Program is about as far from a badge of honor as can possibly be envisioned. APBN Inc., a bridge painting company from Campbell, Ohio, is a new member of the club, with OSHA finding a number of material errors and omissions related to the company’s supervision…
Findings from the Yale School of Medicine that will be presented at the upcoming Pediatric Academic Societies meeting in Denver might reasonably be expected to focus on the rather erudite and clinically centered information that customarily features at such peer gatherings. Instead, they will focus on infants and young children wriggling about in the…
Recent maneuvering and rhetoric by Ohio Gov. John Kasich and others concerning the state’s workers’ compensation system is merely indicative of the fact that the state’s Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (“BWC”) is seldom far from the minds of politicians, business leaders, labor organizers and a host of other interested parties. Kasich recently proposed a…
Teens, proms, drinking and car accidents. The latter two do not, of course, automatically attach to what is the most magical night of the year for many high school students, but they certainly rank high on the list of parental concerns regarding that rite of teen passage Motor vehicle insurers also have more than…