A man is in the hospital following a workplace injury at Disney’s Animal Kingdom theme-park.

According to officials with the Reedy Creek Emergency Services, the workplace accident happened on the Primeal Whirl ride in the DinoLand U.S.A. area of Animal Kingdom. The Orange County Sheriff’s Office said 52 year-old Russ Roscoe was doing refurbishment work on the ride at the time of the accident. Police arrived on the scene and called an EMS helicopter to transport the worker to Orlando Regional Medical Center for treatment.

The cause of the accident remains under investigation by the Sheriff’s Office Homicide Unit. The ride in question was closed at the time of the accident.

Disney has not yet commented on the workplace injury.

If you have been injured in the workplace, please contact a New Jersey Workplace Injury Attorney of Levinson & Axelrod P.A. by calling 800-346-5529.

A Massachusetts prison guard from Freetown pleaded not guilty last week to charges that he ran long-distance races while at the same time collecting worker’s compensation payments for an on-the-job injury he said made him unable to perform strenuous labor.

The guard was released on personal recognizance last Tuesday in Suffolk Superior Court.

According to prosecutors, the guard was injured in July 2008 while at work, and then collected about $56,000 in worker’s compensation benefits between January and March of the next year.

Authorities began the investigation this year following an anonymous tip to the attorney general’s office that the guard had run in a January 2009 marathon while receiving worker’s compensation benefits.

If you are involved in a worker’s compensation benefits dispute, contact the New Jersey workers compensation lawyers of Levinson and Axelrod, P.C. by calling 800-346-5529.