Under a recent ruling by the Division Seven Court of Appeals, an industrial worker who lost part of his arm in a work mishap in 2009 at Unistar is unable to hold his employer accountable for the accident beyond receiving workers compensation. The accident, which took...
Energy resources are important for any society, including here in the United States. In order for energy resources, such as fossil fuels, to be utilized in California or any other state, it is necessary to have industrial plants used to process the resources into...
The industrial sector plays a vital role in society and in the nation’s economy. California industrial workers help transform raw materials into products which people use on a daily basis across the state. However, working in the industrial sector does come with some...
Things can sometimes become confusing while working at a construction site. Many times, there are multiple projects going on simultaneously, involving numerous workers. If workers are not careful, they can easily end up being injured or killed in construction workers’...
The use of temporary workers in America, as our readers know, has increased significantly in recent years. At present, there are roughly 3 million temp employees in America, a 28 percent increase from 2010 to 2012. While this is a positive situation for employers, it...
Workers at a construction site are injured every day due to dangers inherent to the construction industry. Much of this has to do with the heavy machinery that construction workers have to deal with on a daily basis in California or in any other state, which can cause...
Health care professionals are supposed to take care of those who are sick or injured. However, it turns out that health care staffers in California and other states may also need some care of their own. A study has recently revealed that health care staffers have an...
According to a recent report published by consumer advocacy group Public Citizen, work-related accidents in the health care industry are a bigger problem than most of us realize. In addition, not a heck of a lot has been done to address well-known risks to workers in...
Earlier this week, four construction workers were injured in Foster City when the wood frame of a restaurant under construction partially collapsed and struck them. An investigation conducted after the incident showed that a truss had failed, though the cause of the...
We wrote some time back about a former UC Davis police officer who filed a workers’ compensation claim, asserting that he suffered depression and anxiety as a result of backlash following an incident in which Occupy movement protestors were pepper sprayed back in...