Storm and Weather Related Injuries In the Carolinas

In general if your job subjects you to a special, or particular hazard from the elements such as excessive heat, or cold, likely to produce sunstroke, or freezing, and you are killed, or injured, courts have traditionally found that to be covered under workers’ compensation.  The test is whether the job subjects you to a greater hazard or risk other than what you would have been ordinarily exposed to in that circumstance.  For example, a tornado strikes your town, and you are employed as a firefighter, and are injured saving someone from a collapsing building.  Your job as a firefighter, puts you at a greater risk than normal, and your injuries would be covered under workers’ compensation.  Conversely, North Carolina courts have held a worker in a plant that was injured when a tornado hit was not injured in the scope of his employment because there was no causal relationship between the job, and his injuries.

If you are a carpenter, or roofer, and get caught in a storm while working, and struck by lightning, your case would be compensable because your job put you in the situation where the risk of your being harmed by lighting was greater.  Likewise, if it is over one hundred degrees outside, and you work in a plant where you are working around molten metal, and you suffer heatstroke that would also be compensable.  Facts and circumstances very widely from case to case, and workers’ compensation insurance companies will interpret the facts and law to suit their interests, not yours.     

If you are injured on the job in North Carolina, or South Carolina, and your case is denied, Tippens & Zurosky is available to serve your auto accident and workers’ compensation needs.

Tippens & Zurosky has represented people involved in auto accidents, or hurt on the job in North Carolina and South Carolina for nearly twenty years.  Let us answer any of your questions regarding any automobile accident, or work-related injury.  Call us toll free at (877) 372-3580, or 704-343-0018 to schedule a consultation so that we may assist you. 

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Driving in Rainy or Snowy Weather

Every Fall season, we get all excited with the change of seasons, Halloween, and Thanksgiving.  But, during the Fall, daylight savings time shortens our time driving home from work, or school in the light, plunging us into darkness.  Make sure you take time, and slow down so that you can see hazards on the road.  If you are caught in unexpected snow, or heavy rain, drive cautiously, and try to get off the roads as soon as possible.  You can account for your actions, and drive slowly, and reasonably, but you can’t account for those folks that are driving too fast for conditions, and putting your life, and theirs into jeopardy with their actions. 

Often the last vestiges of hurricane season, dumps upon North Carolina and South Carolina powerful storms that cause flooding, heavy rain, tornadoes, thunder and lightning, and power outages.  If you are in an evacuation zone, heed the warnings of your local and state governments, and evacuate if you are told to do so.  Material things are replaceable, but you and your family members are not.  If you are unable to evacuate, seek refuge at a recognized state, or local government shelter.

If you find yourself in the wrong place at the wrong time, and get in an auto accident, or are injured on the job in North Carolina, or South Carolina, Tippens & Zurosky has time for you, and your questions.  Tippens & Zurosky has represented people involved in auto accidents, or hurt on the job in North Carolina and South Carolina for nearly twenty years.  Let us answer any of your questions regarding any automobile accident, or work-related injury.  Call us toll free at (877) 372-3580, or 704-343-0018 to schedule a consultation so that we may assist you.