workers’ compensation

An on-the-job injury in Kentucky could inspire many challenges. Workers might require medical treatment for an injury related to their employment. They might require time away from work while they heal. Particularly if someone works in a blue-collar profession, an...

No matter how competent a worker is, they can still make mistakes on the job. Someone who has spent decades on the factory floor might make a timing error while operating a machine due to distractions. A cook who usually completes a perfect service could cut...

The ability to work and provide for oneself is something many of us never stop to think about. If a person suffers a loss of expected income for any reason, it can be devastating, especially if a workplace accident is the reason. A recent out-of-state construction fatality makes this fact all too clear. Kentucky families can heed this as an…

The Kentucky Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program recently reported the conclusion of an investigation into the death of a patrol officer who drowned in March this year. The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health says 12 to 13 workers nationwide suffer fatal work-related injuries each day. The FACE program’s investigations aim to study the circumstances of such…

The Kentucky Occupational and Safety Health office exists to enforce work safety regulations and to conduct investigations of workplace accidents, especially of accidents involving serious injuries and fatalities. Parents of a killed 17-year-old worker, along with a county prosecutor, have accused the KY OSH office of an incomplete and sloppy investigation of the boy’s fatal accident. Experts state that incomplete…