Workplace Injuries

• Iowa Construction Law - Iowa man died - Crain Collapse

  Steve Lombardi | February 03, 2008 1:00 PM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  Reports concerning a construction site accident are circulating. Omaha - Sioux City -A Glenwood, Iowa man died Saturday after being injured when a crane at a gas pipeline construction site in Pacific Junction collapsed and crushed him.This is the type of case that involves both workers' compensation and the general personal injury area of Iowa construction law. The employee worked for WHC Inc....

• Iowa Workers' Compensation - How long do I have to file a claim?

  Steve Lombardi | September 14, 2007 12:00 AM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  Well the answer to that question depends on whether or not you're getting a weekly check from workers' compensation insurance or not. If you are you have three years from the last date when you received a check. If the claim is in dispute, and that's pretty obvious when they don't pay you right away, then you have two years from the original date of injury.And if you think the original date of...

• Newton, Iowa Construction Site Wall Collapse Injures Three Workers

  Steve Lombardi | September 29, 2009 2:42 PM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  Three construction workers were injured on a job site in Newton, Iowa as a wall collapsed and causing the scaffolding to do the same. KCCI news reporters watched a videotape taken by a security...

• Iowa Trucker Killed While Unloading Pipe in Tennessee

  Steve Lombardi | August 02, 2009 10:42 PM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  On Monday July 20th 2009, Larry LaCroix of Fort Madison died at University of Tennessee Medical Center in Knoxville after he was crushed by a load of pipe he was delivering to the cleanup site of a...

• Construction Safety - Fall Protection: What Is a Personal Fall Arrest System?

  Justin Rogers | July 15, 2008 9:00 AM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  This is the fifth blog in a six-part series discussing fall protection within the construction industry. This post provides general information how to use, inspect, and train employees to effectively utilize personal fall arrest systems in order to prevent worker injuries.

• 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' Compensation - PERC - Part XIII - A look at drycleaning equipment.

  Steve Lombardi | February 14, 2008 12:00 AM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  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...

• Another confined space incident claims four men's lives.

  Steve Lombardi | December 21, 2007 12:00 AM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  On November 2, 2007 four Superior, Wisconsin workers were found dead in a confined space. This is the second time I've blogged on confined space deaths associated with asphyxiation. (See Iowa Workers' Compensation - Death caused by sewer gas. December 14, 2007. ) Four workers from Superior, Wisconsin were overcome by toxic vapors after entering a manhole to unplug a blockage in the village. ...

• Iowa Workers' Compensation - Mileage

  Steve Lombardi | September 08, 2007 12:00 AM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  Did you know that if you are receiving workers' compensation benefits, according to Iowa law you are entitled to be paid mileage for going to and from medical and doctor's appointments? Well, you are so keep track of your mileage and turn it in to the insurance company. They will pay you according to the going mileage rate. The law provides for the payment of all reasonable and necessary medical...

• Another worker electrocted, this one at John Deere's Waterloo foundry

  Steve Lombardi | August 09, 2009 6:51 PM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  It appears the worker who was electrocuted at the John Deere Waterloo facility has died. The man, Daniel Gerdman, 22-years-of-age died on Tuesday while working at the foundry. Working on some...