WORKERS’ COMPENSATION – CHEMICAL EXPOSURES
Work injuries caused by exposures to chemicals are covered by the Minnesota Workers Compensation Law.
-Firefighters are exposed to toxic chemicals that come from burning fires.
-Iron range workers are exposed to asbestos.
-Farm workers are exposed to agricultural chemicals and toxic vaccines.
-Workers can be exposed to lead poisoning both in factory work and construction work.
-Landscape and golf course workers have been exposed to the toxic chemicals in Round Up and other chemicals.
-Health care workers are currently being exposed to patients with a wide variety of infectious diseases, both viral and bacteriological, including COVID-19.
-Food processing workers can be exposed to dangerous infections including Campylobacter and Salmonella.
Top Workers Compensation Lawyers for Chemical and Toxic Exposure Injuries
The Minnesota Chemical and Toxic Injury Lawyers at the Schmidt Salita Law Team are 5-star rated injury lawyers with over 100 years of experience collectively in successfully handling hundreds of cases of injury due to toxic chemicals and infectious diseases.
The MINNEAPOLIS WORKERS COMPENSATION ATTORNEYS at the SCHMIDT SALITA LAW TEAM are experienced in bringing justice to the victims of cancer from work-related conditions. Minnesota workers are exposed to many chemicals that are carcinogenic, meaning that these chemicals can cause cancer with repeated exposure in the workplace.
AIRLINE FLIGHT CREWS ARE AT ELEVATED CANCER RISK
One example is that of the exposure of flight crews, pilots, and flight attendants to cancer-causing conditions. The following statistics prove the risk:
-Irina Mordukhovich, a researcher at Harvard T.H. Chan school of Public Health, said there was a higher lifetime prevalence of breast, melanoma, and non-melanoma skin cancers among flight crews relative to the general population. – Journal of Environmental Health June 2018
–Flight crew have higher than average rates of certain cancers, according to a study of more than 5,000 US-based flight attendants.
-“This is striking given the low rates of overweight and smoking in this occupational group,” said Mordukhovich, co-author of a study published on Tuesday in the
-Out of 5,366 flight attendants who took part in the study, just over 15% reported ever having been diagnosed with cancer.
-Taking age into account, the study found a higher prevalence of cancer in-flight crew for every type of cancer examined.
-Some 3.4% of the women who flew for a living had breast cancer, compared with 2.3% in the general population.
-The flight-crew rate was 0.15% compared with 0.13% for uterine cancer; 1.0% compared with 0.70% for cervical cancer; 0.47% compared with 0.27% for stomach or colon cancer; and 0.67% compared with 0.56% for thyroid cancer.
-The risk of breast cancer was higher in women who had never had children, as well as those who had three or more.
Male flight attendants were found to have higher rates of skin cancer – 1.2% and 3.2% for melanoma and non-melanoma cancer, respectively, compared with 0.69% and 2.9% for the adult population as a whole.
This was especially true for the attendants working before smoking on planes was banned in the United States, in 1998.
Flight crews are routinely exposed to known and probable carcinogens, including cosmic radiation from space, circadian rhythm disruption, and possible chemical contaminants.
The authors used 2013-14 data from the Flight Attendant Health Study, which has been tracking the health of selected flight crew since 2007.
This was compared with data from 23,729 men and women with similar economic status who participated in the National Health and Nutrition Examination survey during the same years.
Over 80% of the flight attendants who took part in the study were women. On average, attendants were 51 years old and had been working in the profession for just over 20 years.
CONSTRUCTION WORKERS ARE AT HIGHER CANCER RISK.
AUTOMOBILE WORKERS ARE AT HIGHER CANCER RISK.
PIPEFITTERS ARE AT HIGHER CANCER RISK.
The Schmidt Salita Law Team Handles a Wide Variety of Personal Injury and Wrongful Death Claims
The Schmidt Salita Law Team handles cases involving car accidents, trucking accidents, motorcycle accidents, pedestrian car accidents, and bicycle accidents. It has many years of experience in workers’ compensation, product liability, and medical malpractice cases.
The Schmidt Salita Law Team has extensive experience with concussion injuries, traumatic brain injuries, neck and back injuries, whiplash injuries, broken bones, injured joint injuries (knee, hip, shoulder, wrist, ankle, spinal), amputation injuries, and vision and eye injuries.
The Schmidt Salita Law Team has offices throughout the State of Minnesota. Its primary location is at Ridgedale Office Center in Minnetonka, near the intersection of I394 and I494. The offices are ground level, handicap accessible with ample parking.
The Schmidt Salita Law Team Offers Contingent Fee Arrangements
The firm offers contingent fee agreements (You don’t pay lawyers fees until you collect them, and then only as a percentage of the settlement). It also offers home and hospital visits to clients whose injuries present difficulty in coming to the office.
The Schmidt Salita Law Team has locations throughout the Twin Cities metropolitan area of Minneapolis and St. Paul, as well as White Bear Lake, Minnetonka, Maple Grove, Plymouth, Osseo, Anoka, Coon Rapids, Brooklyn Center, Fridley, Blaine, Shoreview, Woodbury, Falcon Heights, Columbia Park, Stillwater, Hastings, Inver Grove, Cottage Grove, South St. Paul, Apple Valley, Eagan, Burnsville, Savage, Shakopee, Richfield, Bloomington, Chaska, Chanhassen, Edina, Eden Prairie, and Hopkins.