Blog
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 »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 »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 »NY Company Fined for Noise Violations in the Workplace
Recently, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) announced that a Queens metal products manufacturer was cited and fined more than $108,900. The manufacturer had committed a number of repeat workplace safety violations, including failure to protect workers from exposure to high noise levels. Our New York City work injury attorneys know that exposure to…
Read More »