Is your workplace too loud?  Do you often have to shout or speak loudly to make yourself heard? Do you sometimes feel slightly deaf or having a ringing in your ears after leaving work? If so, you may be at risk of developing occupational hearing loss. Hearing damage is one of the most common workplace […]

During this long cold winter, most of us have the luxury of hunkering down inside an office or another warm building, but many New York workers have jobs that require them to work outdoors – even in freezing temperatures. Working outdoors in these frigid conditions can give rise to serious workplace injuries and illness. In […]

In a move the has generated substantial controversy, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has proposed changes to its workplace reporting rules that would require employers with more than 250 employees to publicly disclose reported injuries and illness. Currently, employers are only obliged to post yearly summaries of illness and injuries in a prominent […]

An Arcade, NY man was recently awarded $10 million for back injuries suffered while on-the-job at a North Tonawanda recycling plant.  In 2007, at the request of his employer, the man was delivering documents to be shredded at the recycling plant when a forklift driver rounded a corner and pushed a heavy pallet of shredded […]