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Infant Stroke Study Points to Importance of Prevention
Unfortunately, it is common to hear about strokes happening to adults. However, strokes also happen to newborn infants, and far too often. And now, a recent study is demonstrating showing just how often it happens, even as it provided even more hope that infant strokes may be quite preventable. The new study, produced by…
Texas Teens Injured in Alabama Charter Bus Crash
A charter bus that was carrying high school band members from the Channelview Independent School District back home to Texas from a trip to Disney World, where they performed at a music festival last Saturday, ran off an Alabama highway and plunged into a 50-for=t-deep ravine on Tuesday. The accident killed the bus driver…
[Report]: Texas Leads The Nation in Trench Collapse Fatalities
According to a Recent report from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), the state of Texas is the nation’s leader when it comes to workplace fatalities caused by trench collapses. Last year, there were three such fatalities, including one infamous incident that happened here in San Antonio last March. On March 9 of…
CPSC Sues Over Refusal to Recall Jogging Strollers
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) filed suit last week against Britax Child Safety, Inc., the company that manufacture BOB jogging strollers, because the company has refused to issue a recall on the stroller, even though there have been have at least 200 complaints from the public about the product since 2o12. The…
How Technology Could Limit Vehicle Crashes
The number of traffic accidents and fatalities nationwide has been increasing at an alarming rate in recent years, in part because of the rise in incidences of DUI and distracted driving. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), there were more than 6.3 million vehicle crashes nationwide in 2015 alone, a number…
Are Truck Drivers Getting Adequate Training?
According to the Federal Highway Administration, in 2014, the last full year data is available, 31 million trucks carried 10.5 billion tons of freight more than 279 billion miles overall, nationwide. That is a lot of driving and that is a lot of road sharing with passenger cars. This is very true in Texas,…
First Lawsuits Filed in Opioid Crisis
It is no secret that the entire country is suffering through a terrible drug crisis at the moment. The current crisis involves drugs called opioids and, unlike previous drug crises, this one does not involve black market drugs smuggled into the country and sold on the street. This crisis involves prescription medications that are…
Goodyear admitted to violating workplace safety laws and regulations more than 100 times
A recent investigation and report is questioning the commitment of multi-national tire maker Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company to safety. Unfortunately, their concerns run to both the customers who buy their tires as well as the people who make their various products. Over the course of six months, researchers looked at hundreds of state…
The Ongoing Takata Airbag Recall: What You Can Do
As 2017 winds down, it is interesting to note that the largest vehicle recall in history is ongoing. In fact, last week, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) confirmed yet another fatality caused by faulty Takata airbag inflators. The NHTSA inspected a suspect vehicle the day after Christmas and confirmed the cause of…
Was the Washington Amtrak Derailment Preventable?
Early Monday morning, an Amtrak train in the middle of its first-ever run on a new line of high-speed service between Seattle, Washington, and Portland, Oregon, derailed at a location about 40 miles south of Seattle. The train derailed as the train was crossing an overpass over Interstate 5, one of the busiest highways…