A Tennessee construction site is a hazardous place to work. While many employers and employees prioritize workplace safety, the threat of potential hearing loss is often an afterthought. Hearing loss also tends to happen over time, meaning it is often more difficult...

When a worker suffers an injury on the job, securing a treating doctor covered by workers' comp is often a major concern. Employers in the Tennessee workers’ compensation program must provide an injured employee with a list of three doctors to choose from no longer...

People who suffer an injury on the job in Tennessee count on workers' compensation to help them pay the bills during their recovery. Without it, families can find themselves in a precarious financial situation. However, sometimes the review board errs in judgment, and...

Most workers know that loud noises in the workplace may put them at risk of developing occupational hearing loss. However, many do not realize that, in addition to noise, certain chemicals also have the potential to affect people’s hearing. Several industries use...

If you sustain an injury while working on the job, worker's compensation will cover your necessary medical treatment under certain conditions, including surgery. You must follow the claim procedures to recover under a worker's compensation policy, but you also might...

When it comes to work-related accidents, many people realize some of the risks that workers in particularly dangerous fields encounter, such as construction workers falling off of a ladder, truck drivers becoming involved in a motor vehicle collision, etc. However,...

Many jobs require workers to keep repeating the same motions or keep parts of the body in awkward positions. This can put excess pressure on the body and result in a repetitive strain injury. Repetitive strain injuries can affect manual laborers and clerical workers....

When accidents occur on the job, those injured may receive benefits through their employers’ workers’ compensation insurance. To receive such assistance, however, they must file the appropriate forms and gain approval from the insurance carrier. Understanding how to...

Employers have a responsibility to provide safe working environments for their employees. Since the 1970s, working with employers to provide safe environments and holding them accountable has resulted in fewer workplace fatalities. Nevertheless, workplace accidents...

As more people across Tennessee and the rest of the nation shop online, the need for warehouse workers, and the demands on those workers, increase. The surge in online commerce has led some warehouse employers to cut corners when it comes to safety. Many warehouse...