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New York Work Accidents – 2013 OSHA Enforcement Targets
According to Safety News Alert, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is going to have a busy year in 2014. OSHA has released information about its new regulatory agenda and the agency is going to make or change many regulations and rules designed to protect employees on-the-job. The proposed rules and regulations that OSHA…
Read More »Employees Face Many Workplace Safety Challenges Due to Understaffed OSHA
Workers’ compensation lawyers in New York know that the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is the agency entrusted with protecting workers from unsafe work conditions. OSHA promulgates rules, oversees compliance with regulation, investigates workplace accidents and deaths and issues citations when employers allow dangerous conditions to exist on the job. Unfortunately, the agency is chronically…
Read More »OSHA Announces Top 10 Workplace Safety Violations For 2013
Employers must comply with all guidelines and all workplace safety rules set forth by the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and by state regulators. Unfortunately, employers often fail to live up to their obligations and allow workplace hazards to exist unchecked. OSHA inspectors on the state or federal level respond to complaints or…
Read More »Senior Partner Jordan A. Ziegler Gets His ‘Hands Dirty’ With Members of FDNY Maintenance and Repair Union
Jordan A. Ziegler, a senior partner at Pasternack Tilker Ziegler Walsh Stanton & Romano, LLP, recently spoke to the crew at the F.D.N.Y. Review Avenue repair shop about workers’ compensation. In a lighter moment, he clutched a hammer in his right hand and grinned as he posed for a photo in front of an F.D.N.Y.…
Read More »Workplace Exposure to Mold A Serious Respiratory Threat
When Hurricane Sandy hit, many areas throughout New York and New Jersey suffered severe damage. Unfortunately, not all homes and buildings have been completely rebuilt and repaired yet and many of the buildings are experiencing mold growth and other results of water damage. Older buildings in the New York area may also have sustained mold…
Read More »Construction Worker Rescued from Trench Highlights Dangers of Excavation Work
In mid-June a construction worker in Queens fell into a 25-foot hole and became trapped at the bottom of a ditch. The man had been engaged in excavation work when he fell into the ditch and was buried under hundreds of pounds of mud. Rescue workers had a difficult time extracting the man as every…
Read More »If You are on Disability, Employers are Watching
If you are receiving disability benefits through workers’ compensation and/or through the Social Security Administration, you must actually be disabled and qualify for the benefits that you are receiving. The vast majority of those who are receiving benefits are, in fact, unable to work and are truly in need of the help that is being…
Read More »Social Security Disability Benefits The Only Safety Net for Many Workers
Most people have to work for a living in order to pay their bills and put food on the table. Unfortunately, sometimes a medical problem or disability makes working impossible. In fact, our Manhattan disability lawyers know that an estimated one out of every four workers now in his or her 20s will become disabled…
Read More »Facts and Myths About Social Security Disability Benefits
Lately, the Social Security disability benefits program has come under scrutiny because there are record numbers of people receiving benefits and because the cost of covering disability benefits now exceeds annual expenses paid out for welfare and food stamps. Our Manhattan disability lawyers have written in the past about how the Social Security Disability System…
Read More »Is a Return to Work Possible When You Are Disabled?
For many individuals on disability benefits due to illnesses or medical impairments, returning to work is the ultimate dream. Disability benefits provide a lifeline by ensuring you have necessary income, but the benefits usually don’t pay as much as having a full-time job. Not only that, but many who are receiving benefits want to work…
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