Des Moines Personal Injury Lawyer articles in category: Workplace Injuries

Seventy-nine workers suffered a traumatic death while working in Iowa during 2007 according to the Iowa Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation program, called IA FACE, based at the University of...

Nick Avgerinos in Chicago posts today about how using "No workers injured in __ days!" programs that take away money to workers, can pit workers against each other. Steve Lombardi responds and expands on one resource available to workers who must protect themselves when management fails to step in.

Today Steve Lombardi at the Des Moines, Iowa Injuryboard blog discussed how injured workers can protect their rights. Don't be penny wise but pound foolish. In answer to today's question his advice is simply to hire a qualified lawyer.

Another death resulted in a fall from a swinging scaffold hear Thompson, Iowa. A Minnesota man was working on a construction site building a feed mill at Christensen Farms, when apparently he...

Nick Avgerinos, from Chicago has a post today about case managers in work comp. cases. It’s a good post. I’d like to bluntly expand on it a little. Let's face facts, the Case Manager in a workers’...

Workers killed while doing their job in foreign states, states other than their residence and the normal place of business, should see a lawyer to determine in which state or states the dependents are eligible for benefits and what state offers the more generous benefits. Another worker died this past week. This one while trying to move a mobile home at the Cloverleaf Trailer Park in Moline,...

Workers can easily fall to their death if the right fall protection is not used. I've previously posted falls in plants and at construction sites. These can be very dangerous accidents. Working at heights it's easy to lose your footing or to move as your would regularly move but not remembering you're not in the correct location to move in such a direction. When falls happen it can be...

Iowa House passes House File 2542 concerning Iowa citizens who are injured working on another state. The Iowa House on Tuesday passed a significant piece of legislation to assist Iowa workers who are injured while working in a state other than Iowa. Now if the Senate will pass House File 2542 or something similar, a 2003 Iowa Supreme Court decision will be over turned. House passes change to...

What is my shoulder injury case worth with surgery? Well first I'll say this is common in my practice to be asked for a second opinion and I do give them, without charge. I do it even for lawyers and who knows maybe I have with your lawyer. That doesn't mean everyone should write to me asking for a free consultation for a second opinion. QUESTION: I am a nurse and I got hurt at work, I had...

I have a pretty good analogy that should help answer this question. Think of a car. If there isn't gas in the tank the car can't run. Workers' compensation benefits works a lot like that car engine. If you don't have a medical opinion relating your injury to a work event then the workers' compensation benefits engine won't start up. Medical opinions are the fuel of the workers' compensation...

QUESTION: I injured my shoulder on the job six months ago. I am scheduled for surgery. I would like to know what the proper procedure is for dealing with work comp. What I am entitled to in Iowa formula weekly while out? I also have been told that I probably will not be able to go back to the same work. Will I receive a settlement and how should i go about this in legal form would like to...

Medicare set-aside trusts, social security set-off language and workers' compensation benefits complicate any settlement. Know what you're doing or don't do it. There is more than what I've described, but this part of the protocol is being posted to give both attorneys unfamiliar with this area and clients who need direction in selecting a competent lawyer to see what is involved. It's...

The risks are obvious and include the adverse effects from inhalation, skin absorption, fire, joint and muscle overuse and nervous system disorders. You as the lawyer have to know everything about the workers job description, actual work order and extent to which exposure takes place. Getting the client involved in drycleaning shop education, prevention and risk management is an option that...

Before you can know about worker exposure levels you have to know the number of machines, the capacity of the machines and the age of the machinery being used. From that information you will begin to see how the drycleaning environment is working.Machine Design and Number of Machines -- Evaluation of operator exposures indicated that the most important factor affecting PERC exposure was the...

As a drycleaning worker your concerns should be how to prevent fires and then what will happen if there is one.Fire Hazards - Drycleaning with petroleum-based solvents differs significantly from drycleaning with PERC. The difference goes beyond the fact that the petroleum-based solvents are flammable and PERC is not. However, when the health and safety hazards of petroleum-based solvents are...