A teenage boy who was helping at a New Jersey construction site fell to his death last week. The boy, a 15-year-old, who was volunteering at the Hindu temple BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir, fell about 45 feet to the ground from the ceiling of the temple.
Emergency responders rushed to the scene of the accident, and they performed CPR on the boy. They took him to the Robert Wood Johnson...
A New Jersey worker was injured in a 2012 accident that involved falling off a ladder. The worker, now 38 years old, was at a Piscataway construction site when he fell from the ladder onto a concrete floor.
The 10-foot fall left him with long-term injuries. The man’s ruptured Achilles tendon and a fractured elbow had substantial impacts on his life.
According to the worker’s...
The Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation ACT (EEOICPA) has been in effect since October 2000. Part B of this act went into effect in August 2001. Part B’s mission has been to offer workers’ compensation to Department of Energy (DOE) employees. Current and former employees of the DOE, its predecessors and some of the DOE’s contractors, subcontractors and vendors...
Two workers in a neighboring state have died after being exposed to toxic fumes. The workers were employed at a power plant in Pennsylvania when they inhaled toxic gases. The gases were released into a pit underground where the workers were located along with fellow employees. Several others also suffered injuries related to the incident.
The injured workers were in a well-type area when the...
The longer we do our jobs, the older we get. For older New Jersey workers, there is a higher risk of death. According to a new study that looked at workplace death statistics throughout the nation, older workers have a higher chance of dying on the job.
The Associated Press revealed in a recent analysis that death statistics for workers in the United States have decreased overall, but older...
When you look at a crane being used at any New Jersey construction site, it’s immediately clear how dangerous these giant pieces of machinery are. One false move, and a crane could fall off balance and come crashing down. Alternatively, a crane might drop a piece of debris to the ground or strike someone with its boom.
According to the federal Occupational Safety and Health...
No matter how safe and attentive you try to be, a serious table saw accident could happen to you at any time if you regularly use a saw on the job. However, a miraculous new saw technology could save you from losing fingers in the event of a slip-up. “SawStop” is a special technology that will instantly stop the blade of a saw as soon as the device forms an electrical contact with...
Table saws are dangerous and they account for numerous worker injuries in New Jersey. One false move and you can lose a finger, a hand or even an arm while using a table saw to cut items for your job. However, if you follow the safety tips in this article, there’s a good chance that you can stay safe and avoid many types of serious table saw injuries.
Table saw tips that will help you...
If you work with electricity, you’re bound to get shocked sooner or later. It’s just the nature of the business. Maybe you are connecting two wires and you forgot to switch off the breaker, and you soon find out the error of your ways.
Most electrical shocks are relatively harmless. However, when you’re working around electricity in a professional capacity on a regular basis,...
If you’ve been in the construction business for a while, you’ve probably seen, erected and used a lot of different kinds of scaffolds. When it comes to scaffold related injuries, and pursuing compensation for those injuries, the type of scaffold that hurt you matters. Also, the stage of scaffold use at the time of the injury matters.
First, let’s do a quick review of the...
