When you read about accidents that injure Bergen County workers, the stories often focus on workplace investigations. Meanwhile, an injured victim may be undergoing surgeries, struggling with pain or trying to cope with a permanent disability. Distressed family...
Workplace Injuries
New Jersey nurses suffer workplace violence in silence
Many Bergen County nurses go to work with the expectation they will encounter both cooperative and uncooperative patients. Aggressive behaviors in some patients can lead to violence, especially in psychiatric facilities and emergency rooms. Nurse injuries caused by...
Winter taxing New Jersey budgets and workers
As the interminable winter of 2013-2014 drags on here in New Jersey, aside from the general discomfort and commuter woes during winter storm triggered traffic jams, the entities feeling the most pain from this winter are the highway maintenance departments and their...
New Jersey worker killed in distribution center accident
A worker employed at an Amazon.com distribution center in Avenel, New Jersey, died in an industrial accident at the facility earlier this month. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is investigating the accident, but it may be months before we find...
Feds award contracts to companies with labor violations
When it comes to regulating safety, health and wage regulations, the federal government has a significant amount of resources devoted to creating regulations, inspecting business and enforcing the regulations by punishing violations. The Department of Labor and its...
New Jersey care facility cited by OSHA for serious violations
Workers are exposed to a wide variety of risks in the workplace. We often discuss construction accidents, due to the significant number of fatalities and severe injuries that constructions workers suffer every year. But workers in other industries also are subject to...
Retailers in New Jersey warned about Black Friday safety
Black Friday is all about the products that shoppers across the nation can snag at incredibly low prices. Need a new big screen television? If you’re here by 5:00 a.m., you can get it 40 percent off. Need new tires? The first 50 people through the doors will...
OSHA proposes electronic injury and illness reporting
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has the responsibility for helping to maintain workplace safety in the United States. OSHA writes the regulations that control many aspects of worker safety and they enforce those regulations by prosecuting...
New Jersey company faces $153,900 in OSHA fines
In the abstract world of physics, energy can be described as being potential or kinetic. Potential energy is just that, the stored energy that is potential in a device. A weight suspended in the air, a spring under tension, a stick of explosive or a capacitor all...
Garbage truck cab couldn’t protect hauler when cable snaps
The first step after suffering an on-the-job injury is to document the injury itself. For a New Jersey garbage hauler, the first part of this primary step was completed for him by doctors at Morristown Medical Center. There was no doubt that some level of injury had...