Attorney Michael Grossman Accident News Blog
A recent report published by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Preventions Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report shows that a leading cause of injury death for individuals over 65 is tumbles and/or falls. This article was published recently in the Washintgon Times relating to this topic.
Accidental falls a leading cause of death over 65
By Joyce Howard Price
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
November 17 2006
Posted by E. Michael Grossman Texas Wrongful Death Attorney
Every year more than 6000 employees in this country die from injuries sustained in the workplace according to the Occupational Health and Safety Administration. Another 50000 die from illnesses caused by exposure to workplace hazards. In addition six million workers suffer non-fatal workplace injuries at an annual cost to US businesses of more than $125 billion.
Industrial accidents may result in severe personal injuries such as spinal cord injuries traumatic brain injury quadriplegia paraplegia fractured necks and death. In addition many industrial workers are exposed to long term inflictions such as exposure to harmful and hazardous chemicals.
In recent news…
Local Worker Dies In Industrial Accident
Source: http://www.kwtx.com/news/headlines/4906616.html
(December 13 2006)—An employee of LJT-Texas in Temple died Wednesday in an accident at the steel tubing manufacturing plant Temple Fire & Rescue said. Crews responded to the accident just before 9 a.m. Wednesday at the plant at 3601 Eberhardt Rd.Justice of the Peace David Barfield pronounced the worker who was in his early 30s dead at the scene. The identity of the worker and details about the accident were not released. The plant houses three tube mills and employees about 70 workers.
Posted by E. Michael Grossman Texas Industrial Accident Attorney
A tragic accident occurred on Tuesday when an 18 wheeler lost control after a flat tire separated from the rim. The resulting sparks caused the trailer to catch on fire. The driver was injured.
As a result of the backup a separate 18-wheeler was rear-ended by another tractor-trailer causing both trucks to catch on fire. But to make matters worse one of those trucks was hauling ammunition. Firefighters had to back down from putting out the fire(s) because some of the ammunition was exploding! See the Star Telegram for details…
Posted by E. Michael Grossman Texas 18 wheeler accident attorney
A high school girls basketball player was killed and seven others were injured Friday when the sport utility vehicle the team was riding in slid on an icy patch and partially overturned officials said.
Isaura Puentes 14 a member of the Paducah High School junior varsity team was killed when she was partially ejected and pinned under the vehicle Texas Department of Public Safety spokesman Wayne Beighle said. She was not wearing a seat belt he said.
Source: KRISTV.com Read the full story: http://www.kristv.com/global/story.asp?s=5756567
Posted by E. Michael Grossman Texas Automobile Accident Attorney
According to the National Center for Statistics and Analysis thousands of motorist are killed each year by large trucks — those weighing more than 10000 pounds. 18-wheelers semi-trucks tractor-trailers and semis fall into this category.
In 2003 alone large trucks accounted for 8 percent of all vehicles involved in fatal crashes and 4 percent of all vehicles involved in injury and property-damage-only crashes.
Some of the most common causes of trucking accidents are:
Leading paragraph from The New York Times article series discussing deregulation. This one applies to the trucking industry and regulation on drivers hours.
As Dorris Edwards slowed for traffic near Kingdom City Mo. on her way home from a Thanksgiving trip in 2004 an 18-wheeler slammed into her Jeep Cherokee.
The Bush administration has installed trucking officials including Duane W. Acklie left and David S. Addington in influential posts to advance its agenda of loosening regulations on the industry.
The truck crushed the sport-utility vehicle and shoved it down an embankment off Interstate 70. Ms. Edwards 62 was killed.The truck driver accepted blame for the accident and Ms. Edwards’s family filed a lawsuit against the driver and the trucking company.
In the course of pursuing its case the family broached a larger issue: whether the Bush administration’s decision to reject tighter industry regulation and instead reduce what officials viewed as cumbersome rules permitted a poorly trained trucker to stay behind the wheel alone instead of resting after a long day of driving.
After intense lobbying by the politically powerful trucking industry regulators a year earlier had rejected proposals to tighten drivers’ hours and instead did the opposite relaxing the rules on how long truckers could be on the road. That allowed the driver who hit Ms. Edwards to work in the cab nearly 12 hours 8 of them driving nonstop which he later acknowledged had tired him.
Government officials had also turned down repeated requests from insurers and safety groups for more rigorous training for new drivers. The driver in the fatal accident was a rookie on his first cross-country trip; his instructor a 22-year-old with just a year of trucking experience had been sleeping in a berth behind the cab much of the way.
Rollovers are dangerous incidents that have a higher fatality rate than other types of crashes. 33% of all passenger fatalities occur from rollover crashes.
Posted by E.Michael Grossman Texas Rollover Accident Attorney
A 23-year-old man and a 50-year-old woman died in a traffic accident Thursday along Texas 6 near Pine Forest Drive in west Houston. The two were swerving around traffic in a Camaro when they crossed the median and collided head-on with a northbound van carrying three people two of them young girls. All three in the van survived. Details were unavailable. Source: Houston Chronicle
Posted by E. Michael Grossman Texas Automobile Accident Lawyer
Automobile rollovers can usually be prevented if vehicles simply stick to traveling at a decent speed. The fact is that most rollovers happen when a vehicle is traveling too fast or tries to negotiate too sharp a turn – which is usually made necessary by driving too fast.
Rollovers are one of many different types of automobile accidents. They happen when the base of a vehicle including the wheels loses contact with the road and turns on its side or roof. Most often the result is a violent jarring and tossing about of the vehicle and its passengers.
A skilled driver may sometimes prevent a rollover even when it seems inevitable by stopping the turn and driving the car on two wheels until the side that’s up in the air has had the time and opportunity to come back down to the road.
While all cars are susceptible to rollovers to some extent those with a higher center of mass are more susceptible especially when they are traveling fast. Sport-utility vehicles and mini-vans are especially susceptible to rollovers. Trucks also can often turn over when taking tight corners and of course trains can roll over after derailing.
To prevent rollovers some four-wheel drive pick-up trucks have reduced steering capacity. But this creates problems with parking and taking very sharp turns.
It doesnt happen often but rollovers sometimes occur when a vehicle has hit a very large obstacle with one of its wheels while maneuvering over a bumpy road or uneven terrain.
In any accident there is the inherent problem of safely removing the passengers namely those that are trapped or badly injured. In a rollover situation the problem is often exacerbated because the vehicle is often upside down and its doors are often blocked. Cars and trucks don’t have emergency exits on their roofs or by way of a window such as in the case of a bus tram or trolleybus.
Posted by E. Michael Grossman Texas Automobile Rollover Accident Lawyer
A father and daughter were killed Thursday when the station wagon they were riding in was hit by a pickup truck that ran a red light. The accident happened just after noon at the intersection of State Highway 130 and East Parmer Lane in Northeast Austin. Nelson Taylor 45 a Dell employee and his daughter Andrea Taylor 20 a music student at Huston-Tillotson University were both killed. After the pickup truck driver ran the red light his vehicle T-boned the smaller Subaru station wagon a Texas Department of Public Safety trooper said.The driver of the pickup and its three passengers were examined at the scene. Their injuries were minor. The truck driver could be cited for running a red light. The DPS investigation into the crash continues but they do not believe the incident was alcohol-related.
Source: News 8 Austin Staff
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