Ralph Horner, 54, was killed on the job on June 10th at a JBS Greeley, Colorado meat-packing plant. He was working by a conveyer belt which caught his hair and arm, pulling the man into the machine and killing him. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration...
It Took an Accident to Show How Important Company Policies are to Workplace Safety – OSHA fined Colorado Pipe Services, a company based in Golden, CO, $14,000 for a willful safety violation because of a July 15th work accident in Aurora, CO, that left a...
When James Allen and his Colorado Workers’ Compensation Attorney showed up to Court to prove that he had suffered a work injury, neither the employer nor its insurance carrier showed up. However the Notice of Hearing had not only the claimant’s address on it but the...
There are 3 things that an insurance company has to prove when they accuse an injured worker of violating a safety rule after a work injury. Learn more about safety rules and workers’ compensation from Denver Workers’ Compensation Lawyer Michael Kaplan. If...
Colorado Workers’ Rights to a Safe Working Environment – Naturally, some jobs may pose a threat to the safety of their workers. Common threats include physical dangers such as the risk of falling, or the hazards that may result from working with heavy machinery....