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Fatal Accident Caused by Ice This winter has been a difficult one for Texas drivers, as we’ve seen more than our share of Icy roads. One of the latest examples is a tragic one, in which a teenager was killed in the Denton area, after a storm that brought freezing rain and snow left…

Huge Carseat Recall: Graco Products Targetted When you buy products designed to keep your baby or young child safe, you don’t really expect those products to put them at greater risk. Yet, in one of the largest recalls of baby products in history, industry giant Graco will recall 3.7 million child car seats it…

Flashlight Recall: Burn Hazard Cited As part of a cooperative safety effort in conjunction with Health Canada, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) has announced a recall by Spectrum Brands, Inc. of two models of Rayovac LED flashlights due to a possible burn hazard. According to the recall notice, the batteries in either…

Meat Worker Loses Arm in Accident: Corpus Cristi Worker Injured In an extremely gruesome accident that happened on the next-to-last day of 2013, a worker at the Sam Kane Beef Processors plant in Corpus Christi lost his right arm below the elbow when it was sliced off by a meat saw. According to witnesses,…

Salmonella on Chicken Caused by Roaches As if their problems weren’t bad enough, having seen sales drop 25 percent in recent months because of a salmonella outbreak traced to their plants, a Foster Farms chicken processing plant in California that just reopened on Saturday after being shut down for a major cockroach infestation has…

The Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) recently took the relatively rare step of filing a lawsuit to hold the former owner of an Internet sales sensation, Buckyballs, personally responsible for the cost of recalling the product, a prospect that could end up costing as much as $57 million. Buckyballs is a small desk toy…

52 Companies Ordered Shuttered Every year, the motor coach industry carries nearly 700 million passengers a year to destinations spanning the United States. Those passenger numbers are comparable to those in the domestic airline industry. Because of a spate of bus accidents over the past few years, especially a tragic April accident in the…

The epidemic of bus crashes seems to continue unabated. The situation has been bad enough in recent years to cause the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) to crack down on bus companies that don’t follow the rules. The campaign, which they named “Operation Quick Strike,” has resulted in the closing of 52 bus…

Bus Accident Involves Musicians: Willie Nelson Cancels Shows It’s been a horrible year for bus crashes throughout the country this year, with a large number of them happened in Texas. The problem is so bad, The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) has been conducting a serious crackdown on bus companies for most of…

Texas Holiday Roadway Safety: Be Careful During the Holidays The 2013 holiday season has thus far seen a slew of accidents on Texas roads, once again demonstrating that the state’s highways are becoming more dangerous to navigate these days. Here are a few examples of the carnage on the roads just in the last…