Since the creation of OSHA with the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970, companies throughout the United States, including in New York, have been trying to protect their workers. OSHA has a strict set of guidelines in place to protect employees who are working...
Statistics show that as many as two-thirds of all people who apply for Social Security Disability benefits are initially denied. While in many cases this is due to oversights or errors by the person who submits an application, in other instances the applicant is not...
Although the numbers are going down, many workers end up getting injured in the workplace. According to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, the number of workplace injuries went down to three out of every 100 workers getting injured in 2015 from...
Scaffolds are an important part of many construction sites. According to data from the Occupational Health and Safety Administration, also known as OSHA, nearly two-thirds of construction workers find themselves regularly on scaffolds. It should come as no surprise...
On Tuesday, June 20, 2017, three workers were injured and needed to be rescued following the collapse of a building they were working on in Astoria, Queens, in New York City. The incident occurred when the upper portion of the home they were working on collapsed,...
Even New Yorkers who have never needed to apply for disability themselves may know from news reports that the wait period for a disability appeal has been getting longer and longer over the recent years.This is not surprising since around half of all disability...
It is not a secret to many Schenectady, New York, residents that the process of getting Social Security Disability benefits can take a long time, as the Social Security Administration's backlog of cases is notoriously large. This means that New York residents often...
One important step in New York's workers' compensation process is figuring out how much an injured worker will receive in order to compensate him or her for lost wages. Along with reimbursement for medical bills and expenses, the benefit an injured Schenectady...
Many applicants for worker’s compensation in the Capital District fail. This could be because of an incomplete medical record or because of contradicting statements, no matter how innocent (for example, forgetting about a pre-existing condition when you first...
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration, or OSHA, is giving employers more time to comply with a new rule which would require employees to report workers' injuries in electronic format. Although employers were expected to start electronic reporting on July 1...