Anyone who is prescribed an opioid for pain after a workplace injury needs to be aware that they can be highly addictive. The opioid crisis in this country has many doctors taking new precautions when prescribing and renewing prescriptions for these powerful...
Meatpacking facilities nationwide, including Illinois, are hazardous work environments. Even after improvement, employees in this industry continue to suffer a variety of on-the-job injuries. If you work in such a facility, you might be smart to learn about all the...
As our country's population ages, more and more people require some type of ongoing medical care or at least assistance with aspects of daily living. Increasingly, people are hiring home health care providers so that they can continue to live in the familiarity and...
Injuries at work are difficult to cope with because you might want to continue working, but you may not be able to. One thing that injured workers need to remember is that they are going to have to take care of themselves so that they don't exacerbate the injury. This...
The Illinois workers' compensation program helps injured workers to receive the medical care that they need to heal from their work-related injuries. There are other facets of the program that are also available to some beneficiaries. These depend on their...
Workers who are injured often face very serious medical issues, especially if the incident involved the head, neck or spine. Sometimes, the problems they are facing are permanent and will impact them forever. This has to be taken seriously because the person might not...
People who work around machinery with moving parts must ensure that they are being as safe as possible. One way that you have to do this is by ensuring that you don't have any loose clothing or even long hair that might become entangled in the machines. Some...
Safety authorities say a significant number of workplace injuries nationwide, including in Illinois happen as the result of human errors. They say the prevalence of injuries caused by unsafe actions by employees exceeds those resulting from unsafe conditions by far....
When you suffer an injury at work, you need to ensure that you get medical care if you need it. You shouldn't have to worry about what your employer will do because retaliation for filing a workers' compensation claim is illegal. You also shouldn't worry about trying...
Injuries to your neck can make doing even the simplest tasks complicated. This is because the neck controls the movement of your head, but it is also affected by the motions of your shoulders. If you are injured at work and your neck is one of the impacted areas, you...
