Do you need vocational rehabilitation after a workplace injury?
After sustaining a workplace injury, you may face a long road to recovery. Some injuries may prevent you from returning to your previous job and require that you learn new skills or enter a different field entirely. This is where vocational rehabilitation comes in....
How can working on scaffolding lead to serious injuries?
As you climb up on a scaffold, you may look down at the ground and wonder what would happen if you fell. When dealing with workers' compensation after a severe injury, you may think about the problems that led to your fall. Even after an incident, knowing more about...
What happens if my employer refuse to take my injury claim?
If you suffer an injury at work, you are responsible for reporting it to your employer so that they can start the workers' compensation process. In most cases, this is a fairly simple process that occurs without issue. However, if your employer refuses to take your...
How can back injuries change your ability to work?
Back injuries serve as one of the most common reasons that a worker will take time away from their job. It is also one of the biggest reasons workers will leave an industry. What about back injuries make them so hard to deal with? Why do they impact a worker's ability...
What are repetitive strain injuries?
Workers often end up doing the same tasks on the job, as is the nature of most job positions. However, doing these repetitive tasks can end in a worker suffering from a repetitive strain injury, or an RSI. This is a bigger deal than most people think. How do RSIs...
How should you proceed after a fall?
Slip and fall incidents can result in injury to anyone. Adults aged 65 and older have a particularly high chance of suffering from severe injury. Of the 32,000 deaths that occur from falling each year, the majority fall into this age bracket. Fortunately, having...
3 steps to take after being injured at work
No matter what your line of work is, injuries on the job are possible. They can occur due to an accident or repeated strain on your body that occurs during your working hours. Worker's compensation helps you by covering costs such as medical bills and lost wages...
3 tips that can protect your workers compensation case
When you get injured on the job and report the accident to your employer under workers' compensation, you may wonder how to protect your rights while forming the case and during the weeks or months to come. The stress and worry you may feel is not uncommon, especially...
What is the “going and coming” rule under workers’ compensation?
If you sustain a shoulder injury in a vehicle collision on your way to work, will you qualify to receive workers’ compensation benefits? The “going and coming” rule may apply. Sometimes an injury you suffer during a commute to work is not covered. However, there are...
Can PTSD interfere with your ability to work?
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) may manifest in the aftermath of any traumatic event. This includes stressful events that happen at work, especially in jobs with a high rate of traumatic incidents like emergency responding units. Unfortunately, PTSD of any sort...