The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration said Monday it cited an Oklahoma contractor following the death of a worker in a May trench collapse. OSHA cited Caney-based Rocking L Dozer and Land Management LLC for one willful violation for failing to implement protective systems in a trench deeper than five feet. A project manager …
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The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration said Monday that it cited a Pennsylvania dumpster manufacturer for exposing workers to a variety of safety and health hazards. OSHA cited Milton-based Custom Container Solutions LLC for two willful, three repeat, and 23 serious and other-than-serious violations after investigators conducted a targeted inspection of the company’s Milton …
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The National Council on Compensation Insurance is proposing an average 9.8% reduction in voluntary loss costs for Connecticut workers compensation insurance costs, effective Jan. 1. The filing is based on premium and loss experience for policy years 2020-2022 and excludes claims for COVID-19. NCCI said the primary driver of the proposal is improved experience. Lost-time …
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An appeals court in Arizona on Thursday affirmed workers compensation death benefits in the case of a design engineer whose wife claimed he caught COVID-19 at work while conversing with a co-worker and died weeks later. Kenneth Zerby, who was considered high-risk for COVID-19 complications as a prediabetic and was immunocompromised following a kidney transplant …
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The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration said Friday that it cited a Florida contractor following the fatal fall of a worker through a roof in March. OSHA cited Hialeah-based Sealed Tight Roofing Inc. for one willful violation and two serious violations and proposed $84,379 in fines. The worker was killed in a 40-foot fall …
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Women in the 16th and 17th centuries in England experienced difficulties with equal job treatment mostly because they were more likely to be accused of being witches, according to a historian who published her study in the journal Gender & History. Cambridge University historian Philippa Carter posits that the types of employment available to women …
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Workers compensation claims management that utilizes artificial intelligence can help reduce the need for legal involvement in lost-time claims, according to findings from an AI software provider. Gradient AI, a Boston-based company offering AI services for the insurance industry, said it analyzed more than 200,000 lost-time comp claims from more than 60 insurers during a …
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The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration said Wednesday that it cited a Georgia concrete pipe manufacturer after a 19-year-old worker was killed at a Florida worksite in March. OSHA cited Newnan, Georgia-based Foley Products Co. LLC for one willful and six serious violations for exposing workers to crushed-by hazards by allowing them to enter …
The National Council on Compensation Insurance is recommending that Colorado regulators reduce advisory loss costs for the voluntary market by 3.4%, effective Jan. 1. The recommendation is based on premium and loss experience for policy years 2019-2021 and excludes claims resulting from COVID-19, according to the filing submitted to the Colorado Insurance Division. “The majority …
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