A gas well explosion in Indiana Township led to the deaths of two workers on July 23. The well ignited while subcontractors were welding two oil storage tanks at the site near Rich Hill Road at 9:48 a.m. The identities of the victims are unknown. Residents living nearby described the blast…
On August 2, a construction worker employed by J.F. Shea Construction Inc. fell off the Donora-Monessen Bridge. The worker, Ricky Gordon Glover, was sandblasting the steel girders when he fell fifty feet from an enclosed section underneath the bridge and landed on the concrete pier below. Glover sustained broken ribs, a dislocated…
Thirty-one-year-old Jack Hogan III died on July 29 from injuries sustained in a fall at around 12:40 p.m. Hogan fell while working in a thirty-foot-deep hole at the Sewickley Borough sewage treatment plant near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The accident occurred while Hogan was performing routine maintenance. While in the hole, Hogan…
On August 17, 2010, the Pennsylvania Workers’ Compensation Appeal Board decided that an illegal alien can receive workers’ compensation benefits for scarring to the face and neck which was caused by burns at work. In this case, 275 weeks of workers’ compensation benefits, the maximum award permitted for scarring or…
On August 4, in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, seventy-three-year-old Ron Mellinger, a Habitat for Humanity volunteer, died in an electrocution accident. The workplace accident occurred on Fairview Avenue at around 11:45 a.m. Mellinger was electrocuted when the piece of metal he was carrying made contact with a high voltage line. The electrical…
Workplace deaths in U.S. at lowest level since 1992- 08/20/10 submitted by Doug Cunningham on August 19, 2010 – 3:20 pm fatalities on the job were down for the second year in a row. Jesse Russell reports: Workplace deaths are at their lowest levels since 1992. The labor department reported…
The Commonwealth Court has held that a truck driver who receives his dispatch instructions from his home in PA,sometimes starts and ends his trips at his PA home, and spends a substantial part of his time driving in PA, is entitled to Pennsylvania workers’ compensation benefits. In Williams v. W.C.A.B….
On September 7, Waynesboro police officer Derek Matthew Lange, 31, was arrested on a theft charge claiming he stole more than $22,000 in workers’ compensation benefit checks. Lange, who has been a Waynesboro officer since June 2005, injured his hand, wrist, knee and face during a foot pursuit in August…
PA DOL released numbers on Wednesday. Pennsylvania’s unemployment hits 600,000. If you were injured at work, you may have been told to collect unemployment insurance instead of workers’ compensation. You can apply for both. Unemployment is now scheduled to run out after 99 weeks as it currently stands. Workers compensation…
Allentown Metal Works has confirmed that the plant will stay open to at least January of 2011 in order to honor client contracts. However, at least 40 workers are expected to be laid off before the plant closing. An injured worker who is on work-related restrictions at the time of…
