Articles Posted in Work Injury

As we head into the summer months in Southwest Florida, safety advocates are reminding employees, parents and residents about the risks of heat stroke. While the Occupational Safety and Health Administration has recently issued an alert aimed at employees and employers, the most recent high-profile examples of the risks in…

Thirteen workers a day died on the job during the first year of the pandemic, according to newly released data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. In 2020, 4,764 U.S. workers died while on the job — or one worker every 111 minutes. That’s down from 5,190 in 2016, a…