Protecting Injured Workers
And Their Families For The Short And Long Term
If you have recently been hurt or have fallen ill due to work-related circumstances, bills related to your condition are likely piling up. If you’re starting to panic about paying medical bills while simultaneously losing income while you recover, know that you may be...
Ladders make many workplace tasks possible. They make others safer. For example, standing on a properly set up ladder to change a lightbulb is preferable to balancing on someone’s shoulders or on a stack of chairs. Yet, each year, many employees fall from ladders and...
Maybe you get into a disagreement with one of your coworkers, and instead of talking things out with you, they take a swing at you. You end up losing consciousness and suffering a mild concussion. You have hospital bills in addition to several days of lost wages. On...
Workers' compensation benefits are a key form of support for someone hurt on the job or coping with a work-related medical issue. Not everyone has private insurance or paid time-off benefits from their employers, so missing work or requiring medical attention could...
When you’re working, you know that there are some risks. If you’re doing repetitive movements or you’re lifting heavy objects, you could get hurt. Whether you slip and fall or get into another kind of accident, you could end up with a neck injury. Neck injuries come...
On any construction site, there is a risk of electrocution when lines are being run or electrical tools are being used. Electrocution is one of the Focus Four Hazards determined by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration and reported by the Centers for...
Car accidents are one of the most common ways that people in the United States become seriously injured. Not only do they take about 40,000 lives every year, but tens of thousands of people end up with catastrophic injuries. But is there any way that your car accident...
If you get hurt at work, workers' compensation insurance protects you. In Minnesota, almost all employers have an obligation to carry this important form of insurance. Those hurt on the job and those who developed a work-acquired illness can make a claim for benefits....
Falls are one of the most common ways that workers get injured, and many of these falls happen on ladders. Some workers, such as construction workers, may need to use 30-foot ladders that could result in very serious falls. Other workers may just need to use...
People qualify for workers' compensation when they get hurt at work or when a doctor diagnoses them with a work-acquired medical condition. Repetitive stress injuries, sometimes called overuse or repetitive motion injuries, are a common source of workers' compensation...
