Workplace Injuries

• Maintenance and Cure

  Mike Myers | July 29, 2011 5:56 PM | 0 CommentsSeattle, WA

  Ninety nine percent of fisherman and seafood processors don't receive workers compensation. Instead they receive maintenance and cure. Maintenance is meant to cover living expenses that the sick...

• Workplace Injuries - Who Comes Under Fire?

  Mike Myers | July 25, 2011 1:22 PM | 0 CommentsSeattle, WA

  The Seattle Times ran a story about a construction worker injured at the Boeing Everett plant. A man working on a construction project at the Boeing Everett plant was seriously injured in an...

• Workers Compensation Benefits a Small Piece of the Pie

  Michael Myers | February 26, 2010 6:17 PM | 0 CommentsSeattle, WA

  After an on the job injury the first benefits a persons typically receives are through workers compensation. But those benefits typically aren't full compensation. An example is provided by a...

• Death at Rainier Vista Construction Site Underscores Risks

  Michael Myers | September 17, 2008 2:36 PM | 0 CommentsSeattle, WA

  Earlier this month a construction worker, Steven Dale Slee, was injured while working in a trench at a Rainier Vista construction project.  Seattle firefighters took Slee to Harborview Medical...

• Injured Workers and Third-Party Elections

  Michael Myers | September 16, 2008 11:21 AM | 0 CommentsSeattle, WA

  I read a story in the Seattle Times this morning.  It reported that a man was burned and other injured when equipment made contact with a high-voltage power line.  The two men were painting a...

• Jobsite Injuries--Don't Overlook the Third Party Claim

  Michael Myers | January 14, 2008 5:25 PM | 0 CommentsSeattle, WA

  You get hurt at work. You file a workers compensation claim. But that shouldn't be the end of the story. Workers compensations claims yield significantly less money for injured workers than third-party personal injury claims. A good example appeared in the paper recently. Rolondo Dudley, 32, suffered a compound fracture on his right leg during a construction accident this past Friday. Dudley...

• General Contractor Could Be At-Fault In Worker's Fatal Fall from Crane

  Michael Myers | November 07, 2007 10:47 AM | 0 CommentsSeattle, WA

  A construction worker died on Monday after falling 60 feet from a tower crane in Belltown. While working on condominiums located on Third Avenue and Battery Street the worker, a man in his 40s, slipped and fell while climbing a ladder to the crane's cab. After landing on concrete below, the worker was taken to Harborview Medical Center, where he later died.The Department of Labor and...

• Construction Workers Injured on the Job Can Bring Suit for Unsafe Jobsites

  Michael Myers | November 05, 2007 8:16 AM | 0 CommentsSeattle, WA

  A Seattle construction worker was injured on the job early Wednesday. The worker, a man in 20s, was about 50 feet down in a hole when he was hit with an air hose. The air hose hit the worker hard enough to cause cuts and bruising to his abdominal area. The injured man was rescued by firefighters who lowered a stretcher in to the hole and then used a crane to lift the man out. He was then...

• Construction Related Injuries Increasing

  Michael Myers | October 22, 2007 9:57 AM | 0 CommentsSeattle, WA

  A 21-year old man from Bellevue was hit and killed by a dump truck Friday. The Bellevue man was attempting to cross Northeast 36th Street at the same time that the dump truck was turning onto Northeast 36th Street. At this time the police do not believe that the driver was at fault in this accident. With all the construction going on around Seattle injuries to both construction workers and even...

• Construction Accident Kills Tenino Man

  Mark McLean | August 23, 2007 3:53 PM | 0 CommentsSeattle, WA

  A 28 year old Tenino man died last week when he slipped at an Olympia construction site, hit his head on a backhoe and fell 15 feet into a ditch. The construction site was operated by Olson Brothers Excavating, Inc. This was the second construction-related death in a week in Thurston County. Washington's Industrial Insurance Act allows for fault-free "worker's compensation" benefits to...