It turns out there is reason to be concerned about working too hard. Liberty Mutual Insurance has long published a workplace safety index that lists the top causes of disabling workplace injuries. Topping the list for many years has been overexertion. In its 2020...
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OSHA’s Top Ten violations
Longtime late-night talk show host David Letterman turned Top Ten lists into a running gag that entertained millions of viewers for years. However, there is nothing funny in the Top Ten Ten list recently issued by the federal government’s Occupational Health and...
Did an absenteeism punishment policy kill a Wisconsin worker?
Most full-time workers in the Milwaukee area receive a certain amount of paid sick leave every year. In theory, employees are encouraged to stay home if they are sick, both for their own health and to avoid spreading illness to their co-workers. But some employers...
Workplace Safety Index reveals most common and costly injuries
Liberty Mutual’s annual workplace safety index looks at on-the-job injuries from the employer’s perspective by drilling down into the data to figure out how often injuries occur and which injuries are the costliest for employers. While some of our Wisconsin Workers’...
Another look at Wisconsin workers’ comp during the pandemic
Even as Wisconsin businesses are gradually reopening, cases of COVID-19 are on the rise in the state. Will the recent rise in virus cases slow the reopening? No one yet knows, and because these matters are so fluid, it's unwise to make predictions. However, we do know...
Two railroad workers injured in tragic Wisconsin crash
If you drive southwest of Milwaukee for about an hour, you will arrive in Clinton, Wisconsin. The small Rock County town was recently the site of a motor vehicle crash. Two men were killed when their Jeep slammed into a Union Pacific work truck parked along a road...
More than 60 Years of workplace safety innovation
From the late 1960s and early ‘70s there emerged a new term and a new perspective on earning a living: workplace safety. Let’s take a look at more than six decades of safety innovation designed to reduce the frequency and severity of on-the-job injuries. Our...
The negative effects of PTSD on injured workers – Part II
As regular readers of our Wisconsin Workers’ Compensation Law Blog will undoubtedly recall, we recently wrote about the effects PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder) can have on injured workers. Experts say PTSD has several main negative effects on those who have been...
The negative effects of PTSD on injured workers – Part I
The Mayo Clinic says that “post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a mental health condition that's triggered by a terrifying event — either experiencing it or witnessing it.” Some of its common symptoms are heightened fear, depression, anxiety, intrusive thoughts,...
Why you should report all your injuries after a work accident
The last thing most people expect when going into work is getting injured. However, many professions require workers to be in dangerous situations, while others can result in injuries due to repetitive stress on the body. Regardless of the cause, when you sustain a...