Workplace Injuries

• Work Place Safety: Garbage collection worker injured by falling bin

  Steve Lombardi | October 20, 2008 10:08 AM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  Name: Garbage collection worker seriously injured after trash bin falls on him. Date: 10/1/2008 Summary: A Herb's Garbage Hauling worker received serious injury when a trash bin somehow fell...

• Construction Safety - Construction Accidents: Cranes and Personnel Platforms

  Justin Rogers | July 30, 2008 9:00 AM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  This blog is a breif outline of accidents within the construction industry involving the use of cranes and personnel platform, OSHA standards and regulations for crane operation, and required specifications for personnel platforms.

• 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....

• I'm hurt! How do I know if I have a case?

  Steve Lombardi | December 01, 2007 12:00 AM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  Personal injury is a broad area of the law having to do with civil wrongs to a person. People are "injured" in many ways. Some times it's not just about a bodily injury. It could be legal malpractice or libel and slander, it could be damage to a person's reputation or damage caused to a claim they have against another. It might even be damage to their business. We call it personal injury because...

• Iowa Construction Worker in Trench - Cave In

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

  The Job Safety Handbook covers just this sort of work and provides specific examples of what not to do. Trench boxes can be rented and used on-site making this type of injury less likely to ever occur. Trench safety equipment may include hydraulic vertical shores, multi-shores, horizontal waler systems, lightweight aluminum shields, modular aluminum boxes, trench shields and slide rails are a...

• Part IX - Iowa Workers' Compensation - The Going and Coming Rule

  Steve Lombardi | October 28, 2007 12:00 AM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  I. Zone Of Danger Exception. The course of employment may be extended beyond the premises if the off-premises conditions are risks of the employment. Whenever the hazards of the employment spill over the boundary-line and injure a worker on his or her way to or from work, those injuries should be compensable. 1 Larson, Sec. 15.31. When an employee's intoxication arose out of and in the...

• Part VIII - Iowa Workers' Compensation - The Going and Coming Rule

  Steve Lombardi | October 27, 2007 12:00 AM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  H. Transportation Necessity Exception. In Medical Associates Clinic, P.C. v First National Bank Of Dubuque, 440 N.W. 2d 374 (Iowa 1989) we see the facts that probably have the most application to any employee whose employment requires them to use their own car, truck or plane. I believe it's very simply put, if you need your car for errands during the work day, then the going and coming rule...

• Part VII - Iowa Workers' Compensation - The Going and Coming Rule

  Steve Lombardi | October 26, 2007 12:00 AM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  G. Zone Of Protection Exception. Although this exception is discussed as a separate and distinct concept, I believe it is part of the extension of premises exception discussed in Frost v S.S. Kresge Co., 299 N.W.2d 646 (Iowa 1980). Mildred Frost suffered injury when she fell on an icy public sidewalk approximately 12-20 feet from the only store entrance available to employees, and therefore an...

• Part VI - Iowa Workers' Compensation - The Going and Coming Rule

  Steve Lombardi | October 25, 2007 12:00 AM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  F. Special Hazards Theory Exception. This theory is discussed in Frost v S.S.Kresge Co., 299 N.W.2d 646, 649 (Iowa 1980). It can also be described as the "divided premises" exception. Id. at 649. Under this "exception it is held that any "special hazards" of an employee's route become hazards of the employment where an injury occurs on the only available route to reach the premises. 1 A....

• Part V - Iowa Workers' Compensation - The Going and Coming Rule

  Steve Lombardi | October 24, 2007 12:00 AM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  E. Extension Of Premises Exception. If the site of the injury is closely related in time, location and employee usage, to the work premises; and, the employer has exercised control over the site of the injury, the extension of premises exception may apply. In Frost v. S.S. Kresge Co., 299 N.W.2d 646(Iowa 1980) Mrs. Frost was dropped off by her husband just outside the front entrance to work. ...