It has been discovered that Northeast Energy Management Inc., the employer of the two workers killed in the gas well blast in Indiana Township, Pennsylvania on July 23, had been fined several times for previous violations over the last few years. The company has paid approximately $10,000 in fines for federal workplace…
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 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…
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…
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…
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…
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….
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…
Johnstown, Pennsylvania area defense contractor DRS Laurel Technologies plans on laying off 50 more employees. The plant had 900 workers in May of 2008, and has laid off 80 full-time employees. Employees who suffered a work injury, are currently working with medical restrictions and are laid off may be entitled…
An employee of Hodges Trucking sustained a head injury while operating a heavy duty forklift at a Chesapeake Energy gas well site on October 12, 2010. The employee was positioning equipment during the assembly of a rig when the injury occurred. The employee was flown to Robert Packer Hospital in…
