More and more people across Illinois and the rest of the United States have begun making purchases online. This has led some warehouse employers to demand even more from their workers. As employers continue to focus more on productivity than safety, the number of...
When you suffer from a back injury, even a mild one, it can have a massive impact on your life. This is because you rely on your back to do just about anything, whether it is sitting, standing or even laying down. The stages of recovery from a back injury depend on...
If your job duties require you to reach above your head, you probably step onto a ladder every single time you go to work. While you always should choose the correct ladder for each task, you may never be able to eliminate your chances of suffering a serious injury in...
Many jobs, particularly those that are more physical in nature, can endanger the lives of Illinois workers and put them at high risk for serious injury. Workplace accidents can result in injuries ranging from minor cuts and bruises to severe injury to the spinal cord...
Repetitive stress injuries (RSI) impact millions of people every year, making daily life difficult for many of them. These injuries arise when a body part is overused from performing the same motion over and over again, causing the bones and ligaments to wear down...
“Traumatic brain injury” (TBI) is an umbrella term that encompasses a litany of different brain injuries. There are four types of TBI: concussion, contusion, penetrating brain injury, and axiomatic brain injury. TBI can occur anytime, anyplace, and is a common...
You may work as a temp worker or full-time administrative worker in the Chicago area where you have to use a computer and type all day. Or perhaps you work on an assembly line making the same repetitive motions each day every day. In either of these scenarios it is...
No matter their occupation, people in the greater Chicago area expose themselves to a number of dangers at their workplaces. There is historically a lot of attention devoted to catastrophic and deadly workplace injuries, and rightly so. However, most people who have...
One year into the COVID-19 pandemic and the safety restrictions implemented as a result, many aspects of our lives are slowly opening back up. However, it will be some time before things are back to “normal.” One of those aspects is air travel. And the potential for...
Risks of injury are part of all careers. Whether a Lake County resident sits at a desk all day or stands on a production line on night shift, they expose themselves to hazards inherent with their chosen work. When an individual suffers a work-related accident or...
