A variety of hazards are present in any workplace, and this is especially true for people who work in the industrial setting. These hazards, ranging from rusty pipes to equipment that has not been well maintained, can pose a serious threat to the health and safety of...

A California woman, her husband and recently her daughter are all drivers for the Los Angeles Metro bus systems. The woman, who has driven a bus for nearly 13 years, was recently killed in a traffic accident on June 12. Her untimely death may entitle her family not...

Fatal accidents suffered while working can leave surviving family members reeling from an unexpected loss. Even when a job has obvious danger associated with it, few expect that someone who leaves for work that morning may not be returning home safely that evening. In...

A massive refinery blaze in California appears to have been caused by firefighters who responded to reports of a leaking pipe. They may have accidentally punctured the damaged pipe, causing a leak that emitted a flammable cloud of gas and sparked a huge blaze. The...

The situation involved a project manager for several construction projects. He oversaw a budget of millions of dollars and many of the projects he was involved with were not going particularly well. In one particularly upsetting incident, a contractor screamed in the...

California's governor recently signed a bill that could bring greater protections to injured workers. The workers' compensation reform is touted as a way to save money for businesses and stop "skyrocketing rates" that could have potentially affected both employees and...

NFL players have the right to file for workers' compensation benefits if they can prove they were injured on the job. Typically, when an NFL player becomes injured, workers' compensation claims are targeted to a particular injury and, when appropriate, allotted a...

Several big businesses and unions in California have been working to revamp workers' compensation. Now, it would appear that Governor Brown is backing their proposed changes. The question becomes whether or not the changes to the workers' compensation system are...

Through various postings, this blog has detailed workplace accidents occurring throughout San Diego, California, and across the country more broadly. Often, in the wake of such accidents, workers' compensation is the end result, but what about the process? How does an...

Workers' compensation can be awarded as the result of several factors -- workplace injury, industrial accident and construction accidents are a few common examples. However, these terms, like workplace accident, are very broad and there doesn't appear to be a precise...