Workers’ Compensation

In New Jersey and across the country, workplace injury rates are higher in health care than in any other industry, even higher than industries such as oil and gas extraction and construction. OSHA is attempting to reverse this trend by investigating, auditing and...

On the morning of Feb. 5, PSE&G dispatched an electrical worker to the Thomas and Appleton roads area in Glen Ridge. They had been receiving numerous calls from their customers with complaints regarding an outage in that area, according to a PSE&G...

Two employees were injured by an explosion that occurred at a store in New Jersey on Feb. 6. The incident happened around 7 a.m. on Route 46. All traffic in the area was shut down, and authorities reportedly had the fire under control by 8 a.m. The building was...

With an increasing number of jobs offering telecommuting options, the potential for home office injuries leads to questions about whether such incidents would be eligible for coverage under workers' compensation. Interestingly, a few cases across the United States...

Workers in New Jersey know that safety on the job site is important. Avoiding dangerous situations is the best way to prevent long-lasting or life-threatening injuries. Although workers' compensation can cover the costs of medical treatment for job-related injuries,...

New Jersey workers who are injured on the job should report their injury immediately to their employer. Individuals must make requests for medical attention to the employer as soon as possible as well. The physician who treats the individual's work-related injury may...

At around 9 a.m. on Nov. 3, a man in New Jersey was killed by a falling tape measure. The work site accident occurred while the victim was delivering some sheet rock to a construction project in downtown Jersey City. When a tape measure weighing one pound fell off of...

State police say that a maintenance employee died in the northbound lanes of the New Jersey Turnpike on July 10 while removing a piece of tire from the highway. The traffic accident occurred about 10:30 a.m. in Kearny. According to a preliminary investigation, the...

In December 2013, a temporary worker at a New Jersey bottling plant was injured after falling from a ladder. The incident resulted in a number of fines levied against the bottling company and a temporary worker agency by the Occupational Safety and Health...

It can take some time for an injured person to receive richly deserved compensation for an injury received on a construction site. The time spent dealing with the injury and the issues that stem with it, such as workers' compensation, can be time consuming to the...