Forklift accidents can leave workers with devastating injuries, significant medical expenses, and permanent disabilities. When these accidents occur at work, injured employees often assume that workers’ compensation is their only option for recovering financial...
Large LNG terminals and liquefaction facilities require enormous amounts of structural steel, piping, vessels, modules, machinery, and prefabricated equipment. Cranes are essential to moving those materials into place during construction, expansion, maintenance, and...
Oilfield waste liquids can create serious fire and explosion hazards when they are transported, unloaded, washed out, or handled at disposal facilities. These materials may be described as waste, produced fluids, basic sediment and water, or E&P waste liquids, but...
A serious forklift accident at work can leave an employee facing extensive medical treatment, lost income, and permanent physical disabilities. Many injured workers assume that because the accident happened on the job, their only option is to file a workers’...
Carbon monoxide poisoning is a serious and often overlooked aviation hazard. Because carbon monoxide is colorless, odorless, and tasteless, a pilot or passenger may not realize they are being exposed until symptoms begin to affect judgment, coordination, alertness,...
Commercial fishing vessels present serious fall hazards. Fishermen and other maritime workers may climb ladders, board vessels from docks, work on masts or gantries, handle stacks of pots, repair gear, paint outside vessel rails, weld near the hull, and move across...
Hot air balloons are mechanically simpler than airplanes and helicopters, but they still depend on several critical systems working correctly throughout a flight. The envelope must retain heated air, the burner must produce controlled heat, the propane system must...
Liquefied natural gas facilities depend on extensive electrical systems to operate compressors, pumps, refrigeration equipment, instrumentation, control systems, lighting, loading equipment, and other critical infrastructure. LNG export terminals may also contain...
Jet ski accidents can cause serious injuries even when they happen close to shore, near a marina, or at speeds that do not seem extreme. Personal watercraft are fast, exposed, and highly maneuverable. Riders and passengers have no seatbelt, airbag, enclosed cabin, or...
Longshore workers may cross a vessel’s gangway many times during a shift. It is the basic connection between ship and shore, but it can also become a dangerous part of the job when it is improperly secured, damaged, poorly positioned, inadequately lit, or allowed to...