While not very often, we have found that restoration contractors will sometime work in and around silica. Silica can be found in many building materials including: concrete mortar sand rock masonry and some paint An you if you do the following to these materials then you are at a high likelihood of being exposed: abrasive or sand blast crush or demolish jackhammer grind drill cut or saw Why it’s deadly. You can be in danger even if you don’t see the dust. When you breathe dust that contains silica, the tiny particles damage your lungs. Silicosis can form in your lungs in as little as a few weeks of very high dust exposure. Even breathing small amounts over time can cause disease years later
Electricity has long been recognized as a serious workplace hazard, exposing employ-ees to electric shock, electrocution, burns, fires and explosions. Every 30 minutes, a worker is severely hurt from electricity requiring off the job recovery. Recovery from electrical shocks and burns is slow and painful. Electrical hazards cause more than 300 deaths in the workplace annually. Electrical accidents rank sixth among all causes of work-related deaths in the United States averaging 13 days away from work and nearly one fatality every day. What makes these statistics more tragic is that most of the fatalities could have been easily avoided with safety awareness. Occupational Safety and Health Adm
Pneumatic nail guns are fast and easy to use and have commonly replaced hammers as the tool of choice on residential construction job sites, but they have also created new safety hazards. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, hospital emergency departments treated 26,900 workers for nail gun-related injuries in 2010. Eighty-seven percent of worker emergency room nail gun injuries are puncture wounds or open wounds with an embedded object. Workers can get hit by the nail or fastener, one of the tool’s attachments, or by flying wood or concrete chips. It is also common for a nail to go through the construction material into the injured person. Nail gun accidents are easi
We all know the best way to lower workers compensation costs for restoration contractors is to prevent accidents from every happening. Unfortunately, that is essentially impossible to do. So after an accident does occur, the simplest way to control the cost of a claim is to report it promptly. For many injured workers, they are unfamiliar with the claims process and concerns can arise about their financial security, physical and emotional well being, and their ability to return to work. However, by promptly reporting claims, you are allowing the claims adjuster for your workers compensation carrier to quickly establish contact with the injured employee to answer questions and eliminate c
