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Shop Towels Create Health Risks: New Study Released According to a new study recently published in Human and Ecological Risk Assessment, a large number of workers in manufacturing plants throughout the United States are actually being exposed to significant amounts of lead and other hazardous metals when they use laundered shop towels in the…

Houston Wrong Way Accident: Drunk Driving Blamed Wrong way accidents seem to be on the increase in Texas lately, and a disturbing number of them seem to be caused by people who choose to drive while under the influence of alcohol. One such accident occurred on the Katy Freeway recently. The wrong-way accident, which…

Airbag Recall Record: More than 6 Million Vehicle Recalled in 2013 We have come to rely so much on airbags to keep us safe while driving the roads and highways of Texas that we hardly think about them/ But perhaps we should. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has released records showing that…

Discrimination Lawsuit filed by Hill Law Firm: Racism, Sexism and Homophobia Alleged On Thursday, November 7, 2013, Hill Law Firm, along with our co-counsel, Rodney Pat Ramsey of Waxahachie, Texas, and Melissa Fletcher Morales and Lawrence Morales of the Morales Law Firm in San Antonio, Texas, filed a Complaint in the United States District…

There seems to be an increase in all sorts of bus accidents recently, and it seems that no one is immune. For example just this week, a tour bus carrying country music star Jason Aldean hit and killed a man named Albert Kennedy, who police claim simply “walked out into the middle of the…

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited United Ethanol for 15 health and safety violations for an accident at a Wisconsin ethanol manufacturing plant in which a worker in a grain storage bin died when he became engulfed in corn last April and suffocated. According to OSHA, the worker entered the grain…

The Texas Department of Public Safety and the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office are investigating two crashes that happened Thursday, October 24 that should serve as a reminder that there is a lot to watch out for on Texas roads. The first accident happened when a passenger car collided with an 18-wheeler that was owned…

As you may recall, five cast members of the popular summer musical “Texas” died in a terrible crash near Dumas, Texas back on August 12, when their car went through a stop sign and slammed into a tractor-trailer. Among the fatalities were three West Texas A&M University theater students. At the time, the Texas…

Grain Elevator Accident Kills 1: Equipment Fell Causing Injury All workers are entitled to the proper training and equipment to avoid workplace hazards and come home safe. Unfortunately, while virtually all accidents are preventable, they sometimes happen anyway. A terrible example of a thoroughly avoidable accident happened in North Dakota last week. The U.S….

Greyhound Bus Wreck Injures Many: Almost 50 Hurt When you travel by bus, you are trusting someone else to get you to your destination within a certain period of time, and safely. But riding in any sort of vehicle on the highway entails some risk, and sometimes the bus doesn’t get to its destination,…