On December 4, 2012, Zephyr Oil--a Brooklyn-based gasoline distributor--purchased over 70,000 gallons of gas. Except, incredibly unusually, this was not ordinary gasoline. It was avgas, or a kind of aviation fuel. In contrast with regular gasoline, which is obviously acceptable for use in regular automobiles, avgas contains a substance called "tetraethyl lead." The chemical is [...]
Between 2003 and 2006, there were approximately 458 million hospital emergency room visits by U.S. patients. And a recent study by the Health Services Research Journal, in conjunction with the CDC's National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, has brought to light a startling statistic. According to the study, about 125 million workers in the [...]
An explosion yesterday in Ewing, NJ caused damage to at least 55 units on Scenic Drive. I could feel the blast from my office right across the street and could see the massive smoke rising above the trees. It occurred only a few blocks from Lore Elementary School and I immediately went there to [...]
Being a nurse is the type of job that requires a certain personality. It requires someone to be caring and have sense of wanting to help others and yet at the same time a personality that requires giving a good kick in the (you know what) at times to help a patient heal. It is [...]
To commemorate the annual ‘Workers’ Memorial Day,’ observed on April 28, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) announced a new initiative intended to focusing on protecting temporary employees from injuries and other workplace hazards. OSHA field inspectors have been instructed to look closely at companies known to employ temporary workers, [...]
As the saying goes, 'no one is above the law’ – a phrase recently used in reference to actor Jim Carey, for his alleged workers' comp violations.The movie star opened an art studio in New York in 2011, called "The Church of FCC" and hired a number of employees. But, in contravention to the New [...]
[bs_row class="row"] [bs_col class="col-sm-2"][/bs_col][bs_col class="col-sm-8"] [/bs_col][bs_col class="col-sm-2"][/bs_col] [/bs_row] A police officer who is injured while in the scope and course of their employment while performing a traffic stop will be entitled to workers compensation benefits. Workers compensation in New Jersey allows an injured officer to receive medical care, get paid when out of [...]
[bs_row class="row"] [bs_col class="col-sm-2"][/bs_col][bs_col class="col-sm-8"] [/bs_col][bs_col class="col-sm-2"][/bs_col] [/bs_row] Workers’ Compensation: Northeast States Have Highest Rates of Post-Treatment Opioid Addiction Among Workers’ Compensation Recipients When a worker is injured, a very common course of treatment involves prescribed pain medication. And according to the Workers Compensation Research Institute (WCRI), approximately 80% of workers that are [...]
[bs_row class="row"] [bs_col class="col-sm-2"][/bs_col][bs_col class="col-sm-8"] [/bs_col][bs_col class="col-sm-2"][/bs_col] [/bs_row] On March 23, 2010, President Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) into law. Known commonly as Obamacare, or the Affordable Care Act, the controversial legislation put healthcare changes into place that are widespread and far-reaching. And recently, experts on both healthcare [...]
On the morning of June 9, 2010, Walesca Benvenutti—a bus driver employed by Scholastic Bus Company—was sweeping her bus after bringing the students to school. She was required under the terms of her position to clean the interior of the bus and inspect the seat belts after every run, both morning and evening. But Scholastic [...]
