Colorado Springs Law Blog

Workers in Colorado should have a safe workplace and one component of creating a safe workplace is ensuring the workers receive proper and appropriate safety training. One important aspect of ensuring proper and appropriate safety training to create a safe workplace is that workers receiving training they can understand and apply.

In Colorado, offering Spanish speaking training to construction workers has reduced injuries for Spanish-speaking construction workers in Colorado. The construction industry can be especially dangerous for workers so it is important for them to be familiar with protections available to them including those related to employer requirements and workers' compensation benefits for when workers are injured and need help with their daily costs and needs while they are unable to work as a result.

Workers can suffer serious injuries on the job in Colorado including serious brain injuries that can be suffered in construction accidents or other types of accidents as well. A construction accident on the Front Range left a young man's promising college hopes at risk after he suffered a traumatic brain injury during his summer construction job. The high school graduate was preparing to attend college at a local school in the fall when he was seriously injured while at his roofing job.

The young man was injured in the workplace accident while removing some of the old roofing from the job site. As he was removing old roofing, some of it came free and caused him to fall 30 feet onto the concrete below. The victim had to receive medical treatment for several weeks following the construction accident and suffered broken bones, contusions and a traumatic brain injury. A traumatic brain injury can rob a victim of the life they previously knew.

Preparing a claim for Social Security disability (SSD) benefits is important for disabled individuals and their families to carefully consider. This blog recently discussed how disabled individuals can qualify for Social Security disability benefits but it is also important for them to know how to bring a strong claim for benefits because so many claims are initially denied.

Knowing how to prepare a strong application for Social Security disability benefits may increase the disabled applicant's chances of obtaining benefits but may also help them present a strong appeal for SSD benefits if that is what they need to do down the road. There are a variety of what may seem like little things disabled individuals can do to prepare a strong claim for benefits which includes keeping careful records of their medical condition causing their disability.

Qualifying for Social Security disability (SSD) benefits should be a straightforward process, however, unfortunately, there are commonly many twists in turns in the process before the disabled individual is able to obtain benefits. Because most applications for Social Security disability benefits are initially denied, it is helpful to be familiar with how to qualify for benefits and the process of applying.

Social Security disability benefits are based on medical need, or disability, and work history, or work history credits. Disabled individuals must prove they suffer from a medical condition that prevents them from being able to work, or engage in substantially gainful activity, to qualify to receive Social Security disability benefits. The Social Security Administration maintains a list of disabling medical conditions but disabled individuals may also be able to demonstrate that they suffer from a medical condition not on the list that prevents them from working.