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As of 2005 the Pennsylvania Department of Labor statistics reported that  approximately 100,000 workers are injured each year. Injuries can result in long-term scarring and infections resulting from work related duties. Pennsylvania's Workers' Compensation laws provide benefits for workers injured on the job or suffering an occupational disease. These benefits include: weekly compensation to the disabled worker, reasonable and necessary medical expenses, including doctor visits, therapy, diagnostic tests, hospital and surgical costs, pharmaceuticals, and death and burial benefits to a deceased worker's dependents. In addition survivors of someone who has died in a work-related accident may also be entitled to benefits.

Besides weekly benefits and payment of medical expenses, in many instances our attorneys can negotiate a settlement of your workers' compensation claim.

If you or a loved one has been injured on the job and are not receiving the benefits to which you are entitled, please contact us immediately.

If you have been injured on the job there are several things you must do right away to ensure the viability of your case:

Protect your right to seek workers compensation benefits that you are entitled to receive after a work-related injury.

Schrom & Shaffer practices law in the following type of workers compensation cases

• premises negligence
• preexisting conditions aggravated by workplace conditions
• repetitive stress injures (RSIs)
• slip-and-falls
• unsafe working conditions
• work related disease and/or illnesses
• work-related stress

Schrom and Shaffer has litigated and settled many workers' compensation cases. This case is but one example of the services that Schrom & Shaffer provides:

Whiteside v. Unisys Corporation (1994)

Jean Whiteside worked for the Burroughs Corporation from 1966-1987. In 1987, Burroughs merged with another company to form UNISYS Corporation. Following the merger, she was assigned a new boss and additional new duties, and because two individuals in her department were laid off, her workload increased. Her new duties included the following: (1) attend meetings, for her manager which she had difficulty understanding, with salaried employees, (2) attend other meetings in place of her new boss (3) learn a new computer system from a book while still meeting deadlines and (4) learn the job of a salaried employee and teach that person their job. All of this extra work required to come into work early and leave late. As a result of her increased job stress, she suffered from headaches, constant abdominal pain, clinical depression and other physical and mental ailments.

With Mr. Schrom's advocacy, she was able to establish that her injuries were caused by the conditions at her workplace. Her case required appeals to the Workers Compensation Board and the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania. This case serves to this day as the high water mark for mental stress cases in Pennsylvania. It was featured in the Pennsylvania Law Weekly, the Legal Intelligencer and on NBC10 with Tim Lake. With Mr. Schrom's help, Jean was finally able to get fair compensation for her physical and mental injuries caused by a stressful environment.

If you have been injured on the job or have an occupational disease, do not hesitate to contact our office.