The driver of a car that witnesses say was going over 100 mph is under arrest after he slammed into a truck on I-5 early Thursday, injuring his passengers and the driver of a bread truck. Two passengers in the Mercedes were injured, one of them critically. Both were transported to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle. The driver of the car was taken to Valley Medical Center.The passengers in...
The Coast Guard relieved the skipper of the Seattle-based icebreaker Healy of command Wednesday as it continues an investigation into the deaths of two divers from the ship. In replacing Capt. Douglas Russell, Vice Adm. Charles Wurster, who commands all Coast Guard operations in the Pacific from San Francisco headquarters, said he had "a loss of confidence in the officer's ability to...
A 45-year-old man was seriously injured in a two-car crash on Highway 302 in Purdy Tuesday night, a Washington State Patrol spokesman said. The westbound man was stopped to make a turn near Key Peninsula Highway when an eastbound car driven by a 16-year-old girl crossed the roadway's center line and struck the man's vehicle, said Trooper J.J. Gundermann. Medics took the man to Tacoma General...
Two people were injured, including one who was airlifted to Harborview Medical center when a semi-trailer truck apparently lost its brakes and drove out of control down an eastbound off ramp from Highway 520 in Redmond. The truck crossed West Lake Sammamish Parkway near Marymoor Park, knocking over road signs as it went off the road, and then careened over about a 30-foot-embankment before...
Patients need to know that a particular class of antibiotics can cause ruptures of tendons, such as, the Achilles tendon, the rotator cuff (shoulder), the biceps, the hand, and the thumb. The drug companies say that deep within the printed package insert is a warning of this risk. Public Citizen is petitioning the FDA to require a black box warning. Seems like a good idea to me. Some...
Thanks to Confined Space for this explanation of the lack of workplace inspections by OSHA. SHOCKED! Not Enough OSHA InspectorsFollowing the death of a construction worker who fell from the roof of the 30-story building to the sixth floor deck, Jacksonville, Florida media seem surprised that there aren't enough OSHA inspectors to ensure that workplaces are safe.According to Charles Sorenson, an...
When individual lawsuits are tried before a jury in Florida I hope the judges will allow us to inform the jury of evidence that the tobacco industry has continued to increase the nicotine dosage in cigarettes, at least from 1998 through 2004. While smokers have been trying to quit, big tobacco has been spiking its products to make quitting more difficult.US Cigarettes Have 10% More Nicotine...
Injuries on State ferries are considered maritime claims. It does not matter whether the ferry was at the dock or underway. The test to determine whether a maritime claim exists is whether the vessel was in navigation in the navigable waters of the United States.Typically maritime claims are brought in federal court. But the 11th Amendment prohibits a state from being sued in Federal Court...
Fellow InjuryBoard blogger Lee Coleman of Bowling Green brought my attention to a recent development in the latest news in the Comair Flight 5191 tragedy. In that development, the sole air traffic controller at Blue Grass Airport cleared Comair Flight 5191 for take off just before dawn last Sunday and then diverted his attention to other matters according to Federal Aviation Administration...
Investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board has a set procedure in place for dealing with aviation accidents such as the recent Comair Flight 5191. While each case is somewhat different from all the others before it, the NTSB always looks for certain things when investigation a crash. According to Kentucky.com:Many of the investigators will examine, among other things, the...
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