Workplace Injuries

• Accidentally backing over another worker can be prevented.

  Steve Lombardi | June 06, 2008 7:11 AM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  Rear backing accidents are preventable if proper OSHA rules are followed. Read Steve Lombardi’s post today referring to OSHA rules and what they require.

• Crane topples onto railroad tracks in Iowa along I-80

  Steve Lombardi | May 21, 2008 4:14 PM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  Current events often times demonstrate how one accident can be both a workers' compensation benefits case and a personal injury lawsuit. When a death is involved several layers of investigation should be involved in preserving evidenced.

• Iowa Workers' Comp - What kinds of death benefits can you get?

  Steve Lombardi | May 15, 2008 12:00 AM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  Under Iowa law what benefits are dependent persons, (a wife or husband or child, entitled to following a work related death? Death benefits are covered under Iowa's workers compensation laws....

• Farm related work deaths analyzed

  Steve Lombardi | May 10, 2008 12:00 AM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  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...

• Iowa Work. Comp. - Ganging up on an injured worker is a safety issue for management.

  Steve Lombardi | May 09, 2008 10:59 AM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  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.

• Iowa Work Comp - Am I entitled to be paid more permanent partial disability benefits?

  Internal Administrator | May 08, 2008 9:19 AM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  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.

• Why are construction workers killed from falls when fall protection gear is so readily available?

  Steve Lombardi | April 17, 2008 3:11 PM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  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...

• Iowa Workers Comp - Case Mis-Managers, Secret Spies for the Insurance Companies

  Steve Lombardi | April 04, 2008 1:00 AM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  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’...

• Mobile Home Worker Killed in Moline

  Steve Lombardi | March 24, 2008 12:00 AM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  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,...

• Worker falls to his death at IPSCO work site in Muscatine, Iowa.

  Steve Lombardi | March 23, 2008 12:00 AM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  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...