Knoxville Personal Injury And Disability Blog

Nowadays, employers will often tell their prospective employees that their job offer is dependent upon them successfully passing a pre-employment drug test. The main reason that employers have their workers take these is to reduce the chances of an employee having an accident once they start working there. Employers will often have employees take drug tests after an incident happens as well.

Employers have a good reason for asking employees to submit to drug tests. Data published by the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependency (NCADD) shows that, of the nearly 15 million Americans who use drugs, 70 percent of them have jobs.

As a Tennessee worker, you know you have the right to seek workers' compensation benefits in the event you suffer an injury at work. These benefits include recompense of medical expenses and a portion of wages you lost while recovering. Before an accident takes place, however, you also have the right to a reasonably safe workplace and the training necessary to do your job safely. 

Employers have the responsibility of reducing hazards wherever possible and giving workers all of the tools they need to be safe and productive. Workplace safety should be a top priority, whether you work in an office or on a construction site. Jobsite safety is a particularly pressing concern in jobs that are inherently risky.

From freshly mopped or polished floors to spilled food products or drinks and even water tracked in from outside on a rainy day, all of these can cause you to slip and fall at a grocery store. Although thousands of people have these types of accidents each year across Tennessee and the rest of the United States, few victims realize that they can sue for injuries that they suffer at grocery stores.

While many grocery stores are quick to send over a staff person to clean up a spill in an aisle in the store, they often don't have the same sense of urgency when it comes to having someone bring in a ladder to change a light bulb. When lighting is poor, multiple individuals may lose their footing because they don't see a hazard as they come upon it.

A 36-year-old Clinton man has been arrested and charged with both vehicular homicide and driving under the influence (DUI) charges for his role in causing a fatal crash in Anderson County on the evening of Feb. 8.

According to a spokesperson with the Tennessee Highway Patrol (THP), the Clinton man had been driving his Kia Spectra southbound along Clinton Highway at around 5:30 p.m. when he suddenly crossed the center line into oncoming traffic near its intersection with Shepard Lane. The defendant allegedly struck a 64-year-old Harriman man's Chevy Cavalier head-on in the process.