Workplace Injuries

• Worker Compensation reform...A case of insurance company Profits over injured workers?

  Pete Strom | February 17, 2007 5:28 AM | 0 CommentsColumbia, SC

  I was proud to see this week that the leadership in the South Caroline Senate is standing up to the insurance industry. Workers Compensation insurance has gone out of site over the past few years and it has the small business community screaming for reform. Insurance companies are making millions off of South Carolina's workers' compensation program, Senate President Pro Temp Glenn McConnell...

• Hazardous Waste Plant Fire Evacuates Half of Apex, NC

  Staff Writer | October 06, 2006 10:46 AM | 0 CommentsColumbia, SC

  Fellow InjuryBoard blogger, Charles Monnett in Charlotte, has a great post about this morning's chemical fire in Apex, NC. Over half the city had to be evacuated as chlorine and other hazardous gasses lingered over the city in a cloud of noxious smoke. The city is located about 10 miles from Raleigh, and many people, mostly residents of a nursing home, have been admitted to local hospitals with...

• Wokplace Accidents Costly For Illegal Immigrants

  Staff Writer | September 14, 2006 5:03 PM | 0 CommentsColumbia, SC

  The Charlotte Observer ran an article last week about the toll that worksite injuries take on illegal immigrants. Many often work without health insurance (a crisis that faces many American workers), can't communicate with bosses and coworkers, aren't covered by workers' compensation and don't get severance pay if they are hurt on the job and forced to quit.One of the examples given in the story...