Workplace Injuries

• Warning: Watch Out for Black Friday

  Eddie Farah | November 21, 2007 6:33 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  The day after Thanksgiving is known as Black Friday- the day for stores to open their doors to bargain shoppers looking for holiday discounts.Two years ago it was more than a discount that Cecelia Brannen found. She and her husband were at the Wal-Mart in Starke trying to buy a laptop computer for their daughter.Cecelia was second in line, things looked good. Then she was pushed and pushed...

• JaxPort Employee Injured On The Job 110 Feet Up

  Eddie Farah | August 19, 2009 11:05 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  An industrial accident at the Jacksonville Port Authority led to a dramatic but successful rescue for one injured employee. The unidentified man was working on a 110 foot crane Monday night...

• Florida's Most Dangerous Jobs

  Eddie Farah | January 31, 2009 10:29 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  While the national picture for accidents and deaths on the job decreased by about six percent – Florida’s death rate for workplace fatalities stayed steady from 2006 - about 362 people...

• Dangerous Downtown Condo Collapse Results in Loss Of Life and Lawsuits

  Eddie Farah | January 23, 2009 11:08 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  The downtown Berkman Plaza condominium project was abruptly halted in December 2007 when a parking garage collapsed burying one worker under five feet of debris and concrete. Now the condo owner is...

• Florida Supreme Court Rules In Favor of Injured Workers

  Eddie Farah | October 25, 2008 1:59 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  The Florida Supreme Court on Thursday stepped in to help injured workers. Ever since a controversial 2003 reform of the state’s workers’ compensation law, lawyer’s fees have been...

• New Gun Law Sparking Opposition In Florida

  Eddie Farah | July 17, 2008 8:28 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  On Tuesday, Florida got a new law that some feel makes the workplace safer. Others feel it makes the workplace more dangerous. It's a very emotional issue, gun control, so not to go into that...

• OSHA Fines Downtown Contractors After Garage Collapse Kills One

  Eddie Farah | June 05, 2008 12:20 AM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration has fined three downtown Jacksonville contractors for design and construction flaws that caused the December 6th collapse of the Berkman...

• Garage Collapse Downtown Jacksonville Injures 13 One Missing

  Eddie Farah | December 06, 2007 7:38 AM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  It happened around 6 a.m. this morning as workers were pouring cement to be used for the new Berkman Plaza II tower.On the fifth and sixth floor of a parking garage next to the area the levels of the walls began collapsing like dominos. Tne entire structure fell upon itself and it looks like a bomb went off.Because it happened at 6am during a shift change, worried loved ones are desperately...

• 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...

• 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'...