Workplace Injuries

• Construction safety - Construction site and construction trades safety month - Protecting your life.

  Steve Lombardi | July 01, 2008 9:10 AM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  We'd like to concentrate this month on the construction trades and what makes a working environment a safe place to work. Join us as we explore several of the well known risk encountered every day on the construction site job site. Be safe by working smart. Call us if you have a question. We're here to help you avoid an accident or injury. That's our promise to you.

• Iowa Workers' Compensation - Working around sewer gas can be deadly.

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

  Workers working around sewer gas need to be aware they can be overcome by hydrogen sulfide. This is what happened to two young workers working in 600 feet of underground sewer pipe. After being overcome by the gas they collapsed and drowned. How could and can this be avoided? The first thing wrong was neither was wearing a respirator. The worksite had stood undisturbed for ten or more days just...

• Iowa Workers' Compensation - Talk Like A Pirate Day is finally here!

  Steve Lombardi | September 19, 2007 10:33 AM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  It's interesting to note that pirates had the first workers' compensation program. Arr, ahoy me hearty! It be Talk Like A Pirate Day -- an' that mean it be time fer swashbucklin', pluderin', an' talkin' like the buccaneer that ye be!Arr, ahoy me hearty! It be Talk Like A Pirate Day -- an' that mean it be time fer swashbucklin', pluderin', an' talkin' like the buccaneer that ye be!Unfortunately...

• Three workers electrocuted when using a boom truck

  Steve Lombardi | July 20, 2009 10:10 AM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  Today, it's about three workers who get electrocuted from an overhead power line while doing work on a college campus with a boom truck. It reminded me of my family and the work I grew up listening...

• Worker Safety: Power saw kick back cuts workers throat causing his demise.

  Steve Lombardi | April 21, 2009 11:50 PM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  In a freak accident WEAU 13 News reports on a terrible accident involving a trench worker. In this incident being investigated by OSHA, 33-year-old Eugene Hakes, Jr., of Cadott was...

• Iowa Workers' Compensation: Death benefits and negligence

  Steve Lombardi | April 07, 2009 11:23 PM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  Matthew Buckner was driving his van northbound on 315th St. when he lost control of the van he was driving approximately 100 yards north of the Highway 34 intersection. He entered the east ditch...

• Brain Damage Caused By Manganese Contained In Welding Fumes: Will Manganese Prove to be the Next Asbestos?

  Steve Lombardi | March 13, 2009 1:28 PM | 1 CommentDes Moines, IA

  According to the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics, in 2006 there were approximately 462,000 welding, soldiering, and brazing workers. The occupation was expected to grow only about five...

• Crushed worker could have easily been avoided - chock the wheels

  Steve Lombardi | September 17, 2009 10:00 AM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  Chocking the wheels and setting the parking brake would probably have saved the life of this liquid asphalt truck driver. OSHA fined a trucking company $9,100 for failing to use precautionary...

• Playing Dirty Harry at the 7-11

  Steve Lombardi | July 13, 2009 11:31 AM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  Robberies of Convenience Store Clerks A Des Moines robber got the surprise of his life when the store clerk pulled his own gun, aimed it and they had an old fashion standoff. The robber fled...

• Workplace Safety: Railroad Workers and Pulmonary problems

  Steve Lombardi | March 03, 2009 2:22 PM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  After reviewing the health risks of exposure to sulfur dioxide I found there is an asthma related for railroad workers. See if you find this as interesting as I...