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All Methods of Texting and Driving Dangerous: Study Shows All Methods of Texting Dangerous It’s easy to see how typing out a text message on a cell phone while you’re actively driving a car down a highway can be dangerous. That’s why many of us have looked into alternatives, such as Siri’s speech-to-text technology,…

Teen Alcohol Use Remains a Danger: Parents Ignorant to Teen Drinking Realities It’s prom and graduation season here in Texas, which means a lot of teenagers will be celebrating their freedom. Some will just go to dinner, dance and go home, or hang out at a diner with friends. Unfortunately, many of them will…

Cause of Bus Accident Still Unknown Officials at Parkland Hospital in Dallas have confirmed that another passenger, an 82-year-old woman who was on the charter bus full of seniors that crashed on the George Bush Highway in Irving on April 11, has died from injuries she sustained in that crash. That brings the death…

3 Years Since Macondo Tragedy Last Saturday marked the third anniversary of the disastrous Deepwater Horizon accident. And while the cleanup of the Gulf of Mexico continues, and is the subject of numerous commemorative articles, let’s not forget that the oil spill started with a horrific workplace accident, when an oil rig exploded and…

Robosurgery Causing Deaths: Increased Use of Robotic Surgery Leading to Increase in Robotic Surgery Deaths Though it sounds like something out of Star Trek, the concept of robotic surgery, sometimes called “robosurgery,” is already here, and a number of hospitals and surgeons have taken to using it. And why not? With robotic surgery, instead…

Owner Issues Statement Regarding Tragedy Over the past 24 hours, the news has been laden with stories of death, destruction, loss, and tragedy related to the West, Texas Fertilizer Plant Explosion.  It appears, at this time, that a combination of fire and chemicals, likely ammonium nitrate, led to an explosion that killed many and…

 Company Stated “No Risk” of Explosion in Documents to EPA Companies are charged with learning the risks associated with their chosen industry and working to provide safety measure to prevent injury to workers and the public.  Anyone working in the fertilizer industry knows or has heard about the dangers and characteristics of anhydrous ammonia…

Property Damage Widespread in West, Texas: Explosion Destroyed Property Around Plant The Texas Explosion Lawyer at Hill Law Firm has handled cases involving some of the largest industrial explosions in recent U.S. history.  While it is most important, at this point, to care for those injured or seeking medical attention, even those that lost…

Many questions remain regarding the West, Texas blast that injured and/or killed so many people.  What started the fire?  Why was the explosion so big?  How could this have been prevented?  Can fertilizers explode?  The answers to these questions are vitally important in the investigation regarding the cause of this massive explosion that devastated…

Injuries Reported After Large Blast Rocks Facility in Texas A large explosion at a fertilizer plant in a small town North of Waco, Texas has rocked a community and injured many Texas workers, including many first responders trying to help those that are injured.  Information, currently, is still coming out, but it appears that…