Our Blog

Surge Protector Fires: Recall Issued The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) isn’t always the fastest agency in the world when if comes to ordering recalls and other safety actions, which is one reason it’s extremely important to report a problem when you encounter it, and to take action against those responsible for any…

Infection due to Bacteria Cited W.S. Badger Co. Inc., a New Hampshire company that describes itself as a leading manufacturer of natural and organic sunscreens, has announced a recall of nearly 30,000 tubes of Badger sunscreens for children and babies because of testing uncovered possible contaminated with potentially dangerous bacteria and fungi. The products…

Nanomaterial Dangers Explored: Risks Unknown As technology continues to move forward, nanomaterials will become an ever-greater factor in manufacturing of all sorts of products. Because of their unique properties, they can be used to create everything from drugs capable of selectively attacking cancer cells, clothing that resist stains, ever more powerful electronic devices and…

Because they move relatively slowly and they are rather low to the ground, many tend to think of forklifts as not dangerous. Young workers often use them, and rarely think about the potential consequences. But with two forklift accidents in Texas recently, perhaps it’s time to consider the danger, and to emphasize the need…

Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease: Surgical Equipment the Likely Cause Most of the time, when you go to the hospital for surgery, you expect to come out in better physical shape than when you went in. In those cases when coming out in better shape isn’t apparent, you at least expect to know all of the risks…

 Recently, a Florida infant died after ingesting a laundry soap pod.  Apparently, he and his mother had checked into a battered women’s shelter.  The shelter gave the mother a laundry basket and some soap pods.  The baby was sleeping on the bed near the pods and the laundry basket.  The mother left the room…

The short answer is “yes.” Steel belted radial tires, the tires that most of us drive on today, are like milk — they expire after time passes.  The problem is, for some unknown reason, the tire industry does not want you to know this.   Consequently, identifying this date is not an easy task. How…

Tractor-trailers constitute a traffic hazard to everyone, including young drivers, even in the best of circumstances. They much larger than ordinary passenger vehicles, they sit very high, and they need more time to stop than other vehicles. But there is another danger when driving around large trucks, one that often has to do with…

Answer: Gasoline, sitting undisturbed, closed and in a plastic gasoline container, should not explode, combust, or catch fire unless the vapors are introduced to a heat source such as an open fire. But, if the vapors in a gasoline container are introduced to a heat source such as an open flame or fire, and…

NHTSA’s Requests Recall, Chrysler Says No. After the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) conducted a thorough investigation into a series of rear-end collisions leading to the deaths of at least 44 people, it developed the belief that some Jeep vehicles are at serious risk for a  fuel tank fire, and asked that Chrysler…