Workplace Injuries | InjuryBoard Charleston

The Supreme Court of South Carolina recently handed down a ruling that the citizenship of injured workers should not influence their ability to recover for an on the job injury. The court found that illegal immigrants are entitled to the same benefits under the South Carolina Workers Compensation Code as every other worker in state. This decision came on the heels of a case involving an...

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A Washington man has recently been sentenced to jail time following illegal collection of funds after a work injury. Willard Leech, a resident of Bellingham, had suffered a lumbar injury that put him out of work, although at the same time in which he was collecting benefits, Leech was also working a carpentry job for more than 10 months. This included maneuvering on ladders and manipulating...

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A Rock Hill company may find itself with one of the largest Workers Compensation cases in the South Carolina state history. A meeting will take place Friday, August 24 at the Winthrop Coliseum that may bring in as many as 2000 former employees at the Celanese plant.Attorney Chad McGowan, of Rock Hill, will be conducting the meeting in order to gauge the interest in pursuing legal action. Both...

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Just over a month ago, Smokehouse Restaurant employee Kevin Lane suffered second degree burns over nearly twenty percent of his body following an accident at work. The employer failed to hold Worker's Compensation Insurance on Lane, and may end up paying dearly for being in direct violation of South Carolina laws relating to this situation. An employer that has four or more employees must have...

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On June 18, 2007, a local furniture store in South Carolina caught on fire during business hours. City of Charleston firemen rushed to the scene. Nine (9) firemen entered the burning building in order to insure that no employees were trapped inside. While the employees were able to make their way out of the building, nine (9) of the responding fire fighters were not as fortunate when the...

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Things went awry during the refurbishing of a Texas City, TX refinery when contractor Richard Liening was fatally electrocuted. At the time of the accident, Liening was working on a residual hydrotreater unit. The unit was idle, but had been reconditioned, and is used primarily to upgrade low-quality oil.Unfortunately this is not the first accident to happen at the Texas plant. An explosion in...

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A mental hospital worker was stabbed with a kitchen knife late on the evening of Monday May 27. Upon his refusal to take medication connected with his mental illnesses, the 17-year-old patient went on the offensive. As soon as one supervisor to another called for assistance, the boy began to attack with the weapon.The 37 year old state-contracted victim was rushed to the hospital nearby the...

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An Ecuadorian laborer who was working at a school site in Brooklyn, NY, died in a construction accident last week when a trench he was working in collapsed and buried him under tons of dirt.Dirt, debris and tools so thoroughly covered the worker, identified by the police as Juan Amendano, 30, of Brooklyn, that it took rescue workers nearly an hour to dig him out. He was pronounced dead at the...

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The owner of Don Estlund's Tree Service is facing charges for operating without workers' compensation insurance. Allegedly, he admitted to operating his business for eight years without state-mandated coverage when one of his employees incurred a steep medical debt after suffering an injury on the job.He was arrested, on Thursday and booked into the Sarasota County Jail. If convicted of the...

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