Agricultural occupations are hazardous with one of the highest rates of workplace injuries and fatalities in the U.S. The manual and often strenuous nature of the work, combined with the use of ...

Millions of workplace illnesses and injuries are recorded every year in the U.S., the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics reports, with thousands of fatalities. But some states are much more prone to ...

Injury-related absences can lead to short-term and long-term disability, forcing employers to pay overtime to other employees ...

While a wearable technology that assists the lower back muscles has great potential to cut down on workplace injuries, it ...

Johns Hopkins University and Medicine have approved amendments to the JHU/JHM Workforce Member Work-Related Incident and Injury Reporting Policy, effective May 1. The simplified approach is designed ...

Slightly more than 14% of workers recovering from an on-the-job injury used cannabis to help them recover, according to the results of a recent study conducted in Canada, where marijuana has been ...

Impact of New NYS Workers’ Compensation Work-Related Stress Relief on Discrimination Claims Andrew Lieb discusses how New York State’s expansion of workers' compensation benefits, (effective 1/1/25), ...

In overturning decades-old precedent, the Supreme Court is now allowing a new avenue of claims to go forward, clearing the way for the estates of those who died from work-related injuries to collect ...