Injured man takes legal action after being fired 

• An employment agency near Houston is being sued by a worker alleging he was fired in retaliation for filing a Workers’ Compensation claim.
• The man claims he suffered an on-the-job injury and requested medical attention and alleges Effex terminated his employment for a “pretextual reason motivated by retaliatory intent.”
• As a result of his injury and termination, he has suffered economic losses and mental anguish, and he filed his Workers’ Compensation claim in good faith.
• The claimant is seeking monetary relief of less than $250,000, interest, trial by jury, and all other just relief.
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Chicago-area Amazon workers more prone to injuries

• The rate of serious injury at 14 of Amazon’s 15 Chicago-area warehouses is above the statewide average for general warehousing, according to injury records and federal workplace data.
• Serious injury rates at most Chicago-area Amazon warehouses are double the statewide average.
• At the warehouse facility in suburban Romeoville, where nearly 800 people work, the serious injury rate is 12.3 percent, over three times the state average of 3.4 percent.
• An Amazon warehouse in southwest suburban Wilmington that employs almost 200 workers has a serious injury rate of nearly 16 percent, more than quadruple the state average for the industry.
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Man cannot sue the state after collecting workers’ comp

• An injured worker who received workers’ comp benefits in Rhode Island cannot sue his employer in Massachusetts, according to a ruling by the Massachusetts Supreme Court.
• Both states bar any other recovery once an injured worker has received a payment.
• The court also found that under Massachusetts law a homeowner who hires a firm for the purpose of remedying an obvious hazardous condition on her property does not owe the same duty of care to the contractor as she might to another person lawfully on her property.
• The man suffered serious injuries to both his legs when the wall of a dilapidated and partially collapsed garage fell on him.
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More trouble for Dollar General

• The U.S. Department of Labor opened an inspection at the Dollar General store in Crandon, Wisconsin.
• They identified three repeat electrical safety violations, including connecting two movable power taps in ways not recommended by their UL listing and safety label, having an outlet without a cover or faceplate and using flexible wiring when fixed wiring was required.
• OSHA cited the company for similar violations in 2020 and 2022 in Troy, New Hampshire as well as Mobile and South Ashland, Alabama.
• The agency proposed $147,334 in penalties.
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