Fabricators & Manufacturers Associations, International has awarded a national steel service, Olympic Steel Inc.,  for an excellence in safety.

The Cleveland, Ohio, Chicago, Illinois and Detroit, Michigan facilities won the Safety Award for Honors for having no recordable injuries or illnesses during the reporting period.

Multiple other facilities received awards for having injury and incidence rates lower than the national rate by 10 percent or more. In order to be able to recieve recognition, companies must submit forms to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.

If you or a loved one has been injured in a workplace accident, you may be able to receive compensation for your pain. Contact the pennsylvania workers compensation lawyers of lowenthal & Abrams, P.C. by calling 610-667-7511.

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has announced that they have proposed previsions to improve worker protection from falling, slipping, tripping hazards on working and walking surfaces.

The proposal has been created to eliminate workplace injuries and deaths that occur from these hazards. These new previsions will help prevent an estimated 20 workplace deaths and 3,500 injuries that are serious enough to miss work.

The new rule will allow OSHA to fine companies that allow their workers to climb ladders without proper fall protection. Most of the old working-walking surface regulations are almost 30 years old and the new previsions will update these regualtions.

If you or a loved one has been injured in a workplace accident, contact the Pennsylvania workers compensation lawyers of Lowenthal & Abrams, P.C. by calling 610-667-7511.

A worker with the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation was killed in a construction accident while working as a flagger on Route 22 in Lebanon County.

The 57-year-old worker had just  flagged a car to stop when the driver of an SUV swerved to avoid the stopped car and the vehicle went up an embankment before hitting the worker. The worker was pronounced at the scene.

There has been no charges filed in the accident yet, but police are still investigating. The man was the 81st worker to be killed on the job since the department was created in 1970.

Construction accidents can cause serious injury and death and can have devastating effects on all individuals involved. Our thoughts are with the family and friends of the victim.