Workplace Injuries

• Nail-Guns Construction Injuries Triple

  Eddie Farah | April 17, 2007 11:33 AM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  They are men with an average age of 35. That's who is most likely to be injured by a nail gun. It sounds like a pretty good excuse to get out of home repairs to me.Duke University researchers find the number of do-it-yourselfers who are unintentionally injuring themselves with multiple firing nail guns, more than tripled between 1991 and 2005. 14,800 per year were recorded according to the...

• Florida Dangerous Place for Construction Workers

  Eddie Farah | February 27, 2007 10:08 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  It's a dubious distinction. Florida hit the highest number of job-related accidents, mainly around construction sites in 2004. 422 died on the workplace, according to the state. That's more than one a day. You can thank our multi-billion dollar building industry. The numbers were down but not much better in 2005 -- 404 -- still the second highest fatality count. White and hispanic males top...

• Worker's Compensation

  Eddie Farah | November 16, 2006 6:17 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  Injuries on the job occur daily. You work hard but what happens if you're hurt on the job and can't work? Just like that, you're without income and have no way to make ends meetAll 50 states require employers with 4 or more part-time or full-time employees to provide worker's compensation insurance. Worker's compensation is very tricky. In 1994, Florida legislature amended the workers'...

• On The Job Safety As Teens Face Summer Jobs

  Staff Writer | May 18, 2006 3:15 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  The ring of the final bell of the school year means many teens will file into the workplace to make some spending money at their summer jobs. Julie Ferguson at Workers Comp Insider has compiled a list of sites that should help teens stay safe at their workplaces for the next three months and fills us in on some scary facts:Every three minutes, a teen gets hurt at work, and about 70 teens die at...