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Find Solutions & Strategies May 13, 2013 |
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Killing Our Workers
West Fertilizer Explosion, Worker-Killing Sweatshops & the Absence of Workplace Safety | |
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A Note From the Editor | |
Dear Work Comp Community:
The image in our headline depicts the victims of the tragic garment factory fire in Baldia Town, Pakistan, Sept. 12, 2012.
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Sincerely, Robin E. Kobayashi, JD
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west, texas explosion |
I Walked Out Into West, Texas, by Stephen Embry, Esq. On April 17, 2013 an explosion at the West Chemical and Fertilizer Co., registering 2.1 on the Richter scale, leveled the plant and much of the surrounding town of West, Texas. The explosion was so powerful and destructive that it created a cloud of confusion as well as a swath of death and destruction. Initial reports indicate that at least 14 people were killed and hundreds injured. Many of the dead included firemen and medical personnel, who had rushed to the scene to control the fire just before the explosion. The actual toll may rise as searchers sift though the destruction. Read more. |
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worker-killing sweatshops |
Laundering the Public Image of Worker-Killing Sweatshops, by David Bacon, Truthout Analysis. "At the Ali Enterprises garment sweatshop in Pakistan in 2011, 300 people burned to death - the largest factory fire in world history. Last year in Bangladesh workers jumped from the windows of the burning Tazreen factory because the doors were locked, falling to the pavement below as their sisters had done in the notorious Triangle Shirtwaist fire in New York City in 1911. In the Foxconn plant in China, where the iPads and iPhones are assembled, workers were pushed so hard that they began to kill themselves in 2010." Read more. |
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larson's on premises doctrine |
Extended Premises Doctrine Applied to Slip and Fall Case, by Thomas A. Robinson, JD. A registered nurse, who slipped and fell on a sidewalk that extended from a parking lot to an office building where her employer and a number of other tenants rented space, sustained a compensable injury that arose out of or in the course of her employment, held a Virginia appellate court recently. Quoting Larson's Workers' Compensation Law...read more about this case and other cases on intentional tort, occupational disease, and covered situs. |
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workers' compensation resources research report, issue 6, may 2013 |
An order blank for Issue 6 of the WCRRR can be obtained by writing to John F. Burton, Jr. at [email protected].
Issue 6 of the Workers' Compensation Resources Research Report (WCRRR) examines the employers' costs of workers' compensation. Part I relies on data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) to examined national trends from 1986 to 2012. For private-sector employers, costs dropped for the seventh year in a row and represented 1.80 percent of payroll in 2012, the lowest figure since 1986. For all non-federal employers, costs of workers' compensation dropped to 1.79 percent of payroll in 2012, the lowest figure since the data series began in 1991. Read more. |
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