A knee injury at work rarely announces itself the same way twice. One worker plants a foot wrong on a wet loading dock and hears a pop. Another spends fifteen years kneeling on job sites and slowly loses the ability to climb stairs without pain.…
Charlotte's manufacturing sector supports thousands of jobs across production facilities, fabrication shops, warehouses, and industrial suppliers throughout Mecklenburg County and the surrounding region. While every workplace is different, manufacturing employees often encounter many of the same types of workplace injuries and workers' compensation issues. This…
A workers' comp hearing does not look like what most people picture from television. There is no jury. The setting is formal but not theatrical. By the time the hearing concludes, the Deputy Commissioner often has not yet heard testimony from the treating physician. That…
A burn injury rarely finishes healing on the timeline anyone expects. What looks like a manageable wound in the emergency room can mean months of dressing changes, skin grafts, and follow-up surgery. Even after the burn heals, permanent scarring and disfigurement can continue to affect…
A spinal cord injury does not just take someone out of work for a few weeks. Depending on where along the spine the damage occurred, it can permanently change what kind of work a person is physically able to do at all. North Carolina's workers'…
Most repetitive stress injuries develop gradually, without a single incident that clearly marks when the injury began. It builds over months of the same motion, the same lifting pattern, the same grip. One day a doctor gives it a name like carpal tunnel syndrome or…

