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Why Are Injured Workers in Texas Returning to Work Faster?
The average number of days injured workers in Texas spend away from work has decreased, according to a new report by the Texas Department of Insurance’s Workers’ Compensation Research and Evaluation...
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An Austin company fined by OSHA is facing serious penalties after a workplace accident. Genesis Today Inc. is facing a $56,000 fine for safety violations after a worker lost a hand in one of the...
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What are the 6 Most Dangerous Jobs in the U.S.?
For some workers, an on-the-job fatality or injury is a common occurrence. Police officers and firefighters, for example, understand the high risks associated with their professions and are well aware...
View ArticleWhy Did the Texas Supreme Court Reverse a Workplace Injury Verdict?
Earlier this month, the Texas Supreme Court held that a BNSF Railway worker waited too long to file a workplace injury suit after he found out his spinal cord injury was work-related, reversing a $1.9...
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Why is This Area of Texas Called Asbestos Alley?
Texas cities have quite a few interesting and fun nicknames. Amarillo is called “The Big Brown Flat,” McAllen is “The Square Dance Capital City of the World” and (of course) Austin, also known as “the...
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Insurance Company Mistakes in Documentation Could Doom Your Workers Comp Claim
Last year, a Houston truck driver submitted his workers comp claim to Texas courts in order to receive benefits that have been denied to him for years. His company’s workers’ compensation insurance...
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Why Are Texas Employers Continuing to Opt Out of Workers’ Comp?
In spite of a series of juries ruling against workers’ comp nonsubscribers last year, many employers are continuing to opt out of workers’ comp and face the risk of running into expensive lawsuits. For...
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Why Employees Can’t Afford to Fall Down While Working in Texas
A worker from Waco was unloading his truck in San Antonio more than two years ago when a bundle of PVC pipes slipped and forced the worker to the ground. The worker felt a pop in his knee and the pipes...
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Decision to Award Injured Texas Worker Lifetime Benefits Dependent on...
In 2008, a Texas worker who suffered a traumatic brain injury is eligible for a lifetime of workers’ compensation benefits. While his severe brain injury should be enough to receive these benefits in...
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Why is This Injured State Worker Being Sued?
Four years ago, a worker at a Giddings State School, a youth lockup just outside East Austin, expected a New Year’s Eve night to pass without incident. But just after midnight, the dorm inmates had...
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Workers Injured in Explosion at Texas Chemical Plant
Last week, a large fire broke out after an explosion at a Pasadena petrochemical refinery shut down the Houston Ship Channel and injured a worker. The Houston Press calls this plant the “petrochemical...
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Texas Legislatures Considering Workers’ Compensation Reforms
A Blue Bell worker who had been with the company for five years was disassembling a machine to clean it when the machine suddenly turned on. The worker, who was also a college student, lost three...
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Why is DuPont Closing Its Texas Plant?
More than a year and a half ago, two brothers worked alongside each other for more than six years at DuPont’s chemical plant in La Porte, Texas. However, a chemical leak sprung one tragic Saturday...
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What Construction Work Standards is Travis County Adopting?
The Workers Defense Project (WPD) received a victory this month when the Travis County Commissioners Court granted the request that would ensure Austin construction workers will receive better...
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Are Texas Opt Out Laws Creating a “Pathway to Poverty?”
An injured worker recently settled with her company that had previously denied her workers’ compensation for medical care and lost wages after she was injured on the job. She was injured while working...
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Why is OSHA Raising Concerns About Lawnmowers?
In March, the Austin Police Department responded to a 9-1-1 phone call about an overturned lawnmower in a ditch. When they arrived on the scene, they discovered that a 25-year-old landscaping worker...
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Why is OSHA Investigating ExxonMobil’s Beaumont Refinery Plant?
It seems the ExxonMobil refinery in Beaumont, Texas is under scrutiny because since 2013, at least one person has died in a fatal workplace accident every year. This year’s victim was a contract worker...
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Two Die in a Fatal Workplace Accident at a Texas Wastewater Treatment Plant
Last month, two Texas wastewater treatment plant employees fell unconscious while repairing a pipe valve that had been leaking sludge the basement. While the two were semi-conscious during the rescue,...
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Texas Workplace Accident Causes Severe Burns on Three Employees
Three workers are currently in a hospital recovering from a horrifying workplace accident that occurred at a Church’s Chicken in Livingston, Texas. The floor collapsed beneath the three workers and the...
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Is Texas’ Tyson Foods Plant Putting Workers at Risk for Amputation Injuries?
Earlier this year, the U.S. Labor Department’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) inspected Tyson Foods in Dallas after a worker sustained an amputation injury while attempting to...
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