Typical injuries Wisconsin retail employees encounter
If you work in retail, you know the job involves more than just assisting customers. Employees often handle merchandise, work long hours on their feet, and manage various tasks that can lead to physical strain. Recognizing these common injuries can help you stay safer...
Who is prone to fatal workplace injuries?
To certain people who work in industries involving manual labor, injuries are just part of the job. It might be a daily occurrence for specific jobs, but certain professions are more prone to sustaining severe or fatal work injuries. The risks for workers could vary...
What happens when you bring home your fatigue from work?
Everyone has had a late night worrying about work. Everyone has been too tired to do something after they get home. However, if your time on the clock has left you so tired you have an accident when you are no longer at work, you are at risk for injuries. And those...
What you need to know about the independent medical examination
A workplace injury can leave you facing significant hardship. While you struggle to recoup from the physical harm that you have experienced, the financial realities of your recovery can leave you in a predicament. Although worker's compensation benefits might provide...
Victims of workplace injuries may have several options
After a serious injury at work, a resident of Appleton or the other communities around Wisconsin might not be able to perform their jobs. They also may no longer be able to do their favorite activities, like enjoy the outdoors, for example. In the worst cases, they...
Understanding the worker’s compensation process
If a person is hurt at work, he or she may be entitled to worker's compensation. There is helpful information available about the worker's compensation process in Wisconsin. Worker's compensation overview The worker's compensation program is in place to provide...
The basics of Wisconsin worker’s compensation
Any employee, in any type of job, is at risk of being injured at work. Some jobs are more prone to accidents and some accidents are more serious than others, but the end result is the same – you get hurt at work and that impacts both your employment and your life...
Ways to prevent workplace deaths and injuries
There were 4,585 workplace injury deaths in 2013 and an estimated 50,000 fatalities from workplace exposure each year, according to the National Council for Occupational Safety and Health. This data, however, does not include the thousands of worker suffering injuries...