Law enforcement officers are always at risk while they are at work, whether they respond to a routine traffic stop or something as serious as a shooting. When officers arrive at a scene where someone has a weapon and is behaving erratically, there is often a chance...
Workplace Injuries
Illinois truck driver suffers work-related injury after fall
Truck drivers face many dangers on the job, even when they are not actually traveling on the road at the time that an incident occurs. Accidents are always a possibility both inside and outside of the truck. Recently, one Illinois truck driver learned this the hard...
OSHA focuses on specific work-related injury issues in Illinois
It is important that authorities continually improve their vigilance when it comes to avoiding the injury of workers on the job. The more precautions authorities take in creating and enforcing regulations, the safer work environments will be. This is why the local...
No laughing matter: Illinois mail carrier severely injured by dog
When one thinks of a work-related injury for postal letter carriers, one of the most common injuries that one thinks of is a dog bite. After all, even in cartoons, dogs are often depicted as chasing around postal carriers in amusing sketches.Though it's not uncommon...
Illinois gun range under fire for high levels of lead exposure
Typically, industrial workers are at the greatest risk of falling victim to toxic exposure or some other work-related injury. Unlike an instantaneous accident, workers may not feel the dangerous effects of some chemicals until they are exposed to them over an extended...
Shocking work-related injury causes Illinois company to be fined
A work-related injury is terrible enough by itself. Sometimes even the best precautions are not enough to keep workers from staying safe. However, it is even more of a tragedy when a company allows unsafe practices to continue while not alerting the workers to the...
Woman with positive drug test receives workers’ compensation
Employers and insurers often try to find ways to make smaller workers' payments. With that said, they will try to find ways to weaken your claim if you're injured at work. One woman was denied part of her benefit after suffering a workplace injury because she tested...
Key driver in workers’ comp claims linked to office work
It may come as a surprise to some folks in Illinois but the evidence continues to grow suggesting that carpal tunnel syndrome, one of the various disorders related to repetitive strain injury, needs to be something health and safety people to take a greater interest...

