Workplace Injuries

• Construction Safety - What is Fall Protection?

  Justin Rogers | July 03, 2008 9:00 AM | 4 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  This is the first blog of a six-part series on fall protection within the construciton industry. This post serves as an introduction into construction worker fall protection and outlines a number of important issues within the construction industry regarding worker safety and accident prevention.

• Construction Safety: Falling pole kills co-worker, benefits may depend on a quick investigation

  Steve Lombardi | July 29, 2009 6:36 PM | 3 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  In what can only be described as a tragedy, a construction worker today was killed after a utility pole was knocked over striking and killing him. The utility pole was backed into by a fellow worker...

• Iowa Workers Compensation: Single car accidents where the working driver is killed

  Steve Lombardi | April 15, 2009 11:33 PM | 3 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  Normally we think in terms of car accidents being about liability against another driver. But when a driver falls asleep at the wheel or for whatever reason loses control of a company owned vehicle...

• Iowa Workers' Compensation: The Right to Chose the Treating Doctor, It's about dignity and respect for others

  Steve Lombardi | March 06, 2009 1:54 PM | 3 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  Iowa Workers Compensation – Sixteen tons, what do you get… Saint Peter don't you call me 'cause I can't go … I owe my soul to the company store… The bill before the...

• Construction safety - Respiratory disease and it's relation to the construction industry

  Megan Roth | July 26, 2008 12:05 AM | 2 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  We like to think we've come a long ways since years past when miners and other blue-collar workers were exposed to life-threatening working conditions.  We've moved forward from the days  Even in...

• Construction safety - OSHA 10

  Megan Roth | July 20, 2008 12:54 AM | 2 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  When it comes to construction safety, common sense generally isn't enough (many workers have learned this the hard way...) Thus, it's important for construction workers to be educated or trained in the field of construction safety.

• Construction safety - Are employee incentives as beneficial as they seem?

  Megan Roth | June 18, 2008 12:07 AM | 2 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  We may not eliminate the risk of an accident occuring, however, we can decrease it. The goal of these programs is to motivate workers to maintain a safe work environment.

• Electrolux Iowa Plant Closings, Exporting America’s Middle Class

  Steve Lombardi | October 28, 2009 4:15 AM | 1 CommentDes Moines, IA

  Can a community that has no manufacturing base sustain a middle class? Electrolux is closing its Iowa operations and with those closings taking 850 jobs to a place called Juarez, Mexico. On the...

• Construction Injuries: Let the process begin

  Megan Roth | April 16, 2009 3:28 PM | 1 CommentDes Moines, IA

  It’s somewhat ironic how the economy is crumbling around us and buildings continue to go up (each one higher than the next, it seems). It’s true – the construction industry...

• Iowa Workers' Compensation: Released back to work, then laid off, what do I do?

  Steve Lombardi | April 04, 2009 9:50 AM | 1 CommentDes Moines, IA

  I answer questions on another website and this question was recently posed and the economy being what it is, I thought a broader audience might appreciate the advice. Question: If a person has...