When you head into your workplace for the day you may not be thinking about the dangers lurking around your feet, but foot injuries can become very serious Connecticut workers’ compensation cases. When we think about work related injuries we often think about traumatic brain injuries or hand or arm injuries, but rarely are we thinking about foot injuries.
Everyday throughout our state there are people who work incredibly hard at their jobs for long hours. Many of these people will eventually run into a situation where they are facing an injury that occured at work and they may need to file a Connecticut workers’ compensation claim. This is true for all industries and injury types.
As workplaces continue to struggle with COVID-19 restrictions and identify new and challenging workplace hazards there is new data coming out about the early part of the pandemic in 2020. The new data suggests that the workplace injury that caused just the 6th most injuries took over the top spot in 2020. This type of injury was exposure to harmful substances or environments.
Many years ago farming was one of the most sought after jobs in Connecticut. When farmers were out plowing, growing, and harvesting their land, there wasn’t a harder, but more rewarding job out there.
The spring and summer months are some of the busiest for those workers who are providing services for homeowners. Among those service providers are roofers who have one of the most dangerous jobs of any who are employed in the construction sector. Roofers are susceptible to injuries that may result in a Connecticut workers’ compensation claim.
As the old saying goes, in New England, if you don’t like the weather, just wait five minutes. It’s true the weather is ever changing in this region and from one minute to the next you may not know what you’re going to get. This is especially true this time of year where temperatures have a tendency to fluctuate between mild and freezing and precipitation can go from rain to ice to snow and back to rain again in a matter of minutes not hours or days.
One of the most dangerous jobs performed by workers in any industry are machine workers in a factory setting. These jobs carry with them major risks and if performed incorrectly may lead to serious work related injuries and a Connecticut workers’ compensation claim.
Data is an essential tool in understanding the dangers that worker’s find themselves in when they head to the job site. The number of Connecticut workers’ compensation claims could be minimized by knowing some of the overarching statistics surrounding nonfatal injuries and illnesses on a broad scale.
When people think about a Connecticut workers’ compensation claim they often think about a dangerous fall from the top of a ladder or a laceration that resulted from working with sharp objects, but they don’t often think of repetitive stress injuries. Repetitive stress injuries, like carpal tunnel syndrome, don’t make splashy headlines and multi-million dollar settlements like some of the other injuries that are so often associated with workers’ compensation, but these injuries can be detrimental to your day to d
It is widely known that one of the industries that produce the most workplace injuries is the construction industry. Falls from ladders and slips on wet floors are just a couple of the many injuries that occur on job sites. There is however, a growing amount of injuries happening in other industries that are leading to Connecticut workers’ compensation claims. While none of these industries have reached the danger faced by construction workers, workers in these industries are also having to fend off w
