Court Clarifies Personal Comfort Doctrine, Holds Worker Suffered Compensable Injury While on Break Too Short for Autonomy

The Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court held that a worker injured during a mandatory 15-minute break while retrieving food remained within the course of employment because the break was too brief to ...

The First Thing to Look for with Low Pressure/Low Tidal Volume Alarms: "Leaks"

The ventilator is running.Inspiratory gas is being delivered.Yet, the expiratory VT decreases, and the low pressure/low tidal ...
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DOL Clarifies When Travel During Meal Periods Is Not Compensable

Short travel time during a 60-minute meal period is not compensable when a nonexempt worker is relieved from duties and the period is long enough for the employee to eat, the U.S. Department of Labor ...
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Heart attack

A heart attack occurs when one of the coronary arteries that supply blood to the heart muscle becomes blocked, usually by a blood clot that forms where a fatty deposit (atherosclerotic plaque) has ...