OSHA & Workers’ Compensation
Massachusetts Workers’ Compensation and OSHA
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) occupies a vital role in the protection of employees as they work to support their families. Unfortunately, the Federal Government has failed miserably in the funding of this agency, whose principal mission is to insure a safe work place.
However, OSHA continues to investigate serious industrial accidents and is involved in every case in which an employee is killed on the job. The investigative function can be of great assistance as the families of these employees seek answers to what is most often an avoidable and unnecessary consequence of the failure of one or more parties to comply with statues and regulations designed to protect workers.
OSHA investigations quite often result in the imposition of fines upon those responsible for serious work related injury and/or death. Many portions of the OSHA investigation can be obtained and used to provide a starting point from which an injured worker can gain insight as to how and why a work place accident occurred.
While OSHA investigators cannot be compelled to testify, an experienced workers’ compensation attorney can utilize the results of their investigations in numerous ways to identify third parties, whose negligence caused an accident to occur and/or to double an injured worker’s compensation benefits, including those monies paid by an insurer for medical care.
Cooperation with OSHA investigators is beneficial not only to the insured worker, but also his or her co-workers as the investigations performed by OSHA may lead to remedial efforts by an employer, efforts which promote job site safety, a goal to which employees, employers and insurers all must contribute.
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Joseph M. Burke is of counsel to Parker Scheer LLP, and brings more than twenty-five years of experience in the representation of injured workers and their families concentrating his practice in Workers' Compensation and personal injury law.