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Apr 01, 2019

Firefighters are at an Increased Risk of Many Types of Cancer – But what does workers’ comp cover?
Firefighters are at an Increased Risk of Many Types of Cancer – But what does workers’ comp cover?

9/11, AFL-CIO, Fatal Injuries, fire, Firefighters, First Responders, North Carolina, North Carolina Industrial Commission, worker rights, Worker safety, Worker's Compensation Legislative, worker’s compensation

Firefighters are at an Increased Risk of Many Types of Cancer – But what does workers’ comp cover?

By Kristina Brown Thompson|April 1st, 2019|9/11, AFL-CIO, Fatal Injuries, fire, Firefighters, First Responders, North Carolina, North Carolina Industrial Commission, worker rights, Worker safety, Worker's Compensation Legislative, worker’s compensation|Comments Off on Firefighters are at an Increased Risk of Many Types of Cancer – But what does workers’ comp cover?

Today's post comes from Kristina Thompson at the Jernigan Law Firm. Firefighters are at an Increased Risk of Many Types of Cancer Seth Tinsley, a Charlotte firefighter of 11 years, died at the age of 34 as a result of brain cancer. He was diagnosed at the age of 29. His name is recognized [...]

May 25, 2015

Death on the Job Annual Report from AFL-CIO Informative, Useful
Death on the Job Annual Report from AFL-CIO Informative, Useful

AFL-CIO, Uncategorized, Workers' Compensation, Workplace Injury

Death on the Job Annual Report from AFL-CIO Informative, Useful

By Leonard Jernigan|May 25th, 2015|AFL-CIO, Uncategorized, Workers' Compensation, Workplace Injury|0 Comments

Today's post comes from guest author Rod Rehm, from Rehm, Bennett & Moore.The AFL-CIO’s annual report about “the state of safety and health protections for America’s workers'” has been written about in a previous year on this blog. The recently released 2015 version focuses in an in-depth manner on data from 2013 and includes around 200 pages [...]