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Last week the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) finally released its final silica rule and practically the first thing Secretary of Labor Thomas Perez did was to apologize for taking so long. As part of the announcement, he recounted a number of stories about so many workers who died from having inhaled…

Yesterday, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) announced that they have initiated their own investigation of an accident near Corpus Christi that claimed the lives of three teenage girls from the Houston area. According to the Texas Department of Public Safety, apparently, four teens were returning home from a spring break trip to South…

The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has opened an investigation into the death of a man who was killed in a grain elevator accident last week in Kearney, Nebraska. According to reports, the accident happened last Wednesday, March 16, at around 1:30 p.m. at a grain storage facility located just south of…

Texas Pistachios and Salmonella Lead to Nationwide Recall Texas Star Nut and Food Co. Inc., a pistachio producer based in Boerne, Texas issued a voluntary recall on March 10 for pistachio products that had been shipped to retailers throughout Texas and Louisiana because of tests by a third-party lab contracted by the Food and…

Researcher Find Possible Link Between Sucralose and Cancer According to a new research study, the artificial sweetener sucralose, which has been promoted as a healthier alternative to sugar, may not be all that healthy, after all. The study in question linked sucralose to a possible increased risk of leukemia. For the study, a group…

Just days after a Bexar County jury awarded a San Antonio family $124 million in a lawsuit, car safety experts nationwide are asking for action on what they refer to as a serious auto seatback defect that is very dangerous, even though it could potentially be fixed for a few dollars. The rear-end car…

Crash Leads to Oil & Gas WARN Act, FLSA Complaints The oil and gas boom created a lot of great opportunities for a lot of people, but the oil and gas crisis that has developed because of the price crash over the past year has created a lot of other problems. Unfortunately, the resultant…

When a new parent puts their young child into a car seat, the intention is to keep them  as safe as possible. They expect that, should there be an accident, the car seat will keep them in place and keep them from flying around the cabin or even out of the car. Sometimes, however,…

Earlier this month, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) issued an alert about newly discovered oil and gas worker hazards. This new alert is related to those workers who manually gauge or sample fluids on production and flow back tanks. What are the New Safety…

The combination Valentine’s Day/Presidents’ Day weekend was anything but full of love on Texas roadways, as people seemed to be crashing into each other all over the state. For example, Friday night saw a rash of accidents all around the Houston area, taking the lives of at least five people. The carnage started at…