Workplace Injuries

• Virginia (VA) Workplace Deaths Drop To Lowest Number Ever Reported

  Shapiro, Lewis & Appleton | October 05, 2011 10:51 AM | 0 CommentsVirginia Beach, Chesapeake & Suffolk, VA

  Workplace accidents can happen to people from all walks of life, from railroad employees to police officers. As a Virginia (VA) workplace injury attorney I’ve seen my share of terrible...

• BNSF Railroad Employee Unfairly Suspended for Reporting an Injury Awarded $300K by OSHA

  Shapiro, Lewis & Appleton | August 30, 2011 12:29 PM | 0 CommentsVirginia Beach, Chesapeake & Suffolk, VA

  Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway has been ordered to pay a woman $300,000 for punishing her after she reported a workplace injury. The federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration...

• Injury Attorneys: Get Boots on the Ground and Use Tech Tools

  Rick Shapiro | January 23, 2011 11:18 AM | 0 CommentsVirginia Beach, Chesapeake & Suffolk, VA

  Personal injury attorneys must use technology and get their boots (and eyes) on the ground at the scene of the accident as quickly as possible. But just getting to the scene is not enough in the age...

• Eleven Workers Assumed Dead in Oil Rig Explosion, 17 Seriously Injured

  Shapiro, Lewis & Appleton | April 25, 2010 4:43 PM | 1 CommentVirginia Beach, Chesapeake & Suffolk, VA

  A team of 126 oil rig workers on the Deepwater Horizon in the Gulf of Mexico were going about their day when a massive explosion occurred sinking the rig. As of this writing, 11 crewmembers are...

• Federal Approval Inches Virginia Closer to Off-Shore Drilling

  Jim Lewis | April 15, 2010 4:55 PM | 0 CommentsVirginia Beach, Chesapeake & Suffolk, VA

  A while back, my colleague John Cooper wrote about the possibility of off-shore drilling in Virginia (VA) and the risk of serious injury this type of work will present to many Virginians. Well, the...

• Virginia Scaffold Injury/Death - Not Just a Big City Problem

  Shapiro, Lewis & Appleton | March 25, 2010 10:48 AM | 1 CommentVirginia Beach, Chesapeake & Suffolk, VA

  When you think of Virginia you don't think immediately of skyscrapers and highrises in the same way you might think of for New York, Philadelphia or Houston. Ironically, the tallest building in...

• State Government Jobs the Most Dangerous for Virginia Workers

  Randy Appleton | December 09, 2009 10:05 AM | 0 CommentsVirginia Beach, Chesapeake & Suffolk, VA

  More than 97,000 workers in Virginia suffered a reportable job-related illness or injury in 2008, according to the latest annual report of the Virginia Department of Labor and Industry. Diseases...

• Worker killed in Newport News construction accident

  Emily Mapp Brannon | August 21, 2009 12:00 PM | 0 CommentsVirginia Beach, Chesapeake & Suffolk, VA

  Kirk Patrick Giezey died Thursday when he was run over by a bulldozer at a Newport News construction site, the Daily Press reported. Giezey, 34, was helping clear a new road near the 200 block of...

• 5 Million Dollar Award for Maine Electrical Worker Suffering Electrical Injury

  Rick Shapiro | February 14, 2009 11:18 AM | 0 CommentsVirginia Beach, Chesapeake & Suffolk, VA

  A Maine crane operator was awarded almost $5 million in damages by a judge as a result of injuries suffered in an electrical accident in a boatyard. Bryan Smith was operating a crane and moving...

• A Set of Railroad Industry Standards Unfamiliar to Most Railroad Injury Lawyers

  Rick Shapiro | December 03, 2008 11:00 AM | 0 CommentsVirginia Beach, Chesapeake & Suffolk, VA

  Most of the attorneys practicing railroad personal injury or wrongful death law have heard of the Geneva Convention, which resulted from efforts of the ILO. However, many railroad attorneys and...