Characteristics of Workers’ Compensation Plans HCR/230 February 2, 2012 Sharlene Batts Workers compensation was established to provide injured employees compensation for their injuries and to protect employers from being liable for the injuries sustained by the employee. Two types of workers compensation plans are available: federal and state. There are four federal workers compensation plans and two state plans. Civilians who work for the federal government and are injured on the job are covered by one of the four workers compensation plans offered. These are run by the Office of Workers’ Compensation Programs (OWCP), which is a part of the United States Department of Labor (Valerius, Bayes, Newby, & Seggern, 2008).
Lawsuit Analysis Anderson In May 1982 a group of six Woburn families, all of whom had a child who had died of leukemia or who was being treated for the illness, filed a lawsuit against two municipal corporations in U.S. District Court in Boston. Families charged that W.R Grace & Company, of New York, and Beatrice Foods Company, of Chicago, had contaminated two municipal wells in East Woburn. The whole case was based out of defendants’ alleged pollution of the ground water in certain areas in Woburn, Massachusetts, with chemicals. Plaintiffs, who were six Woburn families, alleged that the two Woburn water wells H and G, had contaminated water before they were closed in 1979 and that exposure to this polluted water caused them to suffer severe injuries. The plaintiffs alleged that ingestion of toxic chemicals (trichloroethylene and tetrachloroethylene) used in this industries, which were tested in water samples from municipal wells, were responsible for the severe health effects.
First, was there a standard of liability under the ADEA. Second, was there a standard for willfulness under the ADEA. Third, whether a union can be monetarily liable under the ADEA. Let’s begin with the facts of the case. Two airline captains working at the time for Trans World Airline brought suit against their former employer and the union, The Air Line Pilots Association, charging age discrimination for adopting a set of rules for pilots applying for the position of flight engineer and a denying these rules to pilots over 60.
| | C. | Explain why the listed estimates for costs might not be similar to the actual costs for the job. What factors could affect the accuracy of these estimates? List as many factors as you can. | | 6.55 | Q1, Q8Costs of workplace health and safety Britain’s Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is a national regulatory body overseeing workplace health and safety. In its 2007 performance report, HSE reported the following statistics: * 241 workers were killed at work.
Phineas Gage was a survivor of a horrific injury to the frontal lobes in an industrial accident in 1848. His subsequent personality change provides some of the earliest evidence for the role of the frontal cortex in mental activity. Gage was working as a construction foreman for the Rutland and Burlington Railroad, rock blasting for a new railway line in Vermont. An accidental explosion drove a tamping iron, 3 cm (1¼ in) in diameter and 109 cm (45 in) long, through Gage's head. It entered at the left cheek, passed upwards through the brain and exited the skull through the frontal bone close to the midline.
Chatsworth Train in Los Angeles California By James Davis Athens State University MG415 Technical Risk Management Instructor: Dr. J. Wayne McCain Figure 1-Aftermath of the Chatsworth train collision Disaster Friday September 12, 2008 is a day many people in and around the world will never forget. This is the day when a careless act created one of the worst train wrecks in the history of the United States. This is when a Metrolink Train 111, that was carrying about 400 people, collided with an oncoming Union Pacific freight train. In the aftermath of the train collision there were 25 people dead and hundreds more injured. There was some speculation about how the train wreck occurred at first because witnesses said that it was due to a faulty railway signals.
STEEL CO. v. CITIZENS FOR A BETTER ENVIRONMENT Supreme Court of the United States, 523 U.S. 83 (1998) JUSTICE SCALIA: Respondent, an association of individuals interested in environmental protection, sued petitioner, a small manufacturing company in Chicago, for past violations of EPCRA. EPCRA establishes a framework of state, regional and local agencies designed to inform the public about the presence of hazardous and toxic chemicals, and to provide for emergency response in the event of health-threatening release. Central to its operation are reporting requirements compelling users of specified toxic and hazardous chemicals to file annual emergency and hazardous chemical inventory forms and toxic chemical release forms, which contain, [among other things], the name and location of the facility, the name and quantity of the chemical on hand, and, in the case of toxic chemicals, the waste-disposal method employed and the annual quantity released into each environmental medium. For purposes of this case, . .
Hersey uses many writing strategies, and targets a specific audience in order to evoke in the American people feelings of remorse, sympathy, and anger, and a personal connection with the victims of the atomic bombing. The last sentence of the first chapter reads, “There, in the tin factory, in the first moment of the atomic age, a human being was crushed by books”(Hersey 23). This statement ties a writing strategy to his intended purpose. Hersey uses irony here to show that these unpretentious and crude items caused the injury of this woman, albeit as a direct result of the refined and technologically advanced A-bomb. Whether Hersey may or may not have had any predilection toward the Christian or Catholic faith, his inclusion of religious aspects of Japanese life may have been a tool used to more closely relate these foreigners to the American people.
Annotated Bibliography Name: Khairul Ikmal Abd Razak ID number:1614065 Article topic: The Causes and Consequences of accident of United Airlines Boeing 747 Hawaii (1989) Source 1 Rodney Stich 2010, ‘History of U.S. Aviation Disasters: 1950 to 9/11’, Hawaiian Nightmare, pp. 204-206. [Online] , viewed 29 April 2012, . This article tell me a brief story on what was actually happen before, on the scene and after the accident of United Airlines Boeing 747 Hawaii(1989) and also some causes to this tragedy. Rodney Stitch tell me in his writing the causes of this accident and the others were the long delayed correction of safety problems, maintenance oversight problems and also the lack of adequate fuselage strength at the cargo door.
Claims were filed by thousands of families who believe the trailers issued by FEMA are substandard and possibly caused some health issues. As a result, the first case was set to trial in Louisiana federal court recently. Kunzelman stated, “For the first time since Hurricane Katrina left tens of thousands of families living in FEMA trailers, a federal jury heard allegations Monday that the government-issued shelters exposed Gulf Coast storm victims to hazardous formaldehyde fumes.” (Kunzelman, M., 2009) Formaldehyde is a chemical that could possibly cause breathing problem and is commonly found in construction materials. This chemical is classified as a carcinogen. According to Kunzelman, “U.S.