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The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has been cracking down on shipments of hazardous materials and has published a notice of civil penalties issued against 11 companies. The FAA issued the fines in response to improperly packaged, marked, classed, described, or labeled hazardous materials. The penalties total $720,000 and range from $54,000 to $91,000.
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) is reminding the public, school officials, facilities managers, and municipal and public safety officials with Whitco Company LP stadium light poles to have them inspected by a qualified engineer immediately because these 70- to 135-foot, 1- to 4-ton poles can fracture or crack and fall over, posing a risk of serious injury or death to patrons and bystanders from being hit or crushed. The poles could put hundreds of people at risk if they fall toward a crowded stadium or onto a building.
In an analysis of commercial fishing deaths from 2000 to 2009, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has found Gulf of Mexico shrimping to be the deadliest form of commercial fishing in the United States. Commercial fishing in general is one of the most dangerous industries for workers, with a fatality rate of 128 per 100,000 — 32 times higher than the rate for all other workers.
Summer is the perfect time to experience the great outdoors, but you may want to use caution when you come in contact with nature’s creatures. It’s frightening enough to encounter dangerous snakes, spiders or scorpions while camping or hiking, but if you get bitten you know you can count on hospitals to inject antivenom into your veins to counter any ill effects. What you probably don’t know is that the supply of many life-saving antivenoms is running out and drug companies just don’t think it’s profitable enough to keep on producing it.
Two construction workers were killed and two seriously injured last Thursday morning in a work site accident in Lewisville, Texas about 20 miles north of Dallas. According to initial reports, 34-year-old Gerardo Horta of Dallas and Rafael Ruiz-Garcia, 41, of Denton were killed when the boom of a cement truck collapsed, striking them and the other workers.
Deputy Assistant Secretary Jordan Barab of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration issued a warning to the petrochemical and energy industries today, prompted by the deaths of 58 workers in just the last four months. Eleven of those deaths occurred when the Deepwater Horizon oil platform exploded in the Gulf of Mexico on April 20.
A Texas jury awarded the family of a 19-year-old woman $1.8 million after finding a defective seat design contributed to her death in a July 2007 traffic accident.
The board of Massey Energy, parent company and owner of Upper Big Branch Mine in West Virginia where 29 miners died in explosion earlier this month, is seeking a public relations boost from a Texas-based firm with political connections.
Coast Guard personnel continued to search the waters of the Gulf of Mexico on Thursday, following an oil rig explosion late Wednesday that sent nearly 100 workers fleeing from the burning rig, and left 11 missing. Many survivors had to dive from the rig’s platform, 75 feet in the air, to the ocean below to escape the flames. Seventeen workers were injured, four critically. The platform continues to burn, and to list into the sea, as firefighters work to control the blaze that is being fueled by raw crude oil from the rig’s well.
Traumatic brain injures, called TBI for short, have been named as the “signature injury” of war veterans returning home from duty in Afghanistan and Iraq. Now medical researchers are planning to launch a study that will test the effectiveness of hyperbaric chambers in treating veterans with brain injuries.
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