When you suffer injuries in a motor vehicle crash or other accident caused by someone else’s negligence, your life immediately turns upside down. Your injuries could be very serious or even catastrophic. You could be hospitalized for a significant period of time. You could require surgery, physical and/or occupational therapy, rehabilitation, or various other treatments.
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It’s that time of year again. Time to buy your kids a new set of clothing, shoes, backpacks, books, supplies and the thousand and one other things kids need to go back to school. Unfortunately, this also is the time of year when childhood injuries begin rising again and remain high throughout the school year.
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It goes without saying that electricity kills – and injures. For construction workers, the risk of electrocution is especially high due to the fact that you are surrounded by power tools, heavy machinery, large electrically-powered construction vehicles, and unfinished electrical systems every day. Per OSHA, of the 991 construction fatalities in 2016, 82 of them
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If you are an old movie and classic TV buff, you likely enjoy the vintage comedies. The ne’er-do-well hero invariably trips over something and splatters himself all over the floor or sidewalk in an elaborately choreographed fall in front of a horrified, but secretly amused, group of spectators. You probably add your own snickers to
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Over 1 million Americans become new campers each year and millions more continue to enjoy this back-to-nature experience that provides fun, togetherness and recreation for your entire family, including Fido. Here are the top camping safety tips for ensuring that your family’s outdoor adventure is safe as well as fun. Choose the Right Venue
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Ah, summer camp. New friends. New adventures. Swimming, horseback riding, archery, crafts, s’mores around the campfire. What’s not to love? But if your child is heading off to camp this summer, you want to make sure that (s)he’ll be just as safe and healthy there as (s)he is at home. Since camp counselors and other
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With the summer heat building over most of America, the problem of children left unattended in hot cars once again takes center stage. While you would never deliberately leave your child in a hot car, an alarming number of adults inadvertently do so because they forget or fail to realize that a child is in
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Next week is the 4th of July, and with America’s birthday come the firecrackers and fireworks that celebrate it. There’s no denying that fireworks are beautiful, exciting and fun to watch and use. But as marvelous as fireworks can be, they also pose a serious danger to your children. On average, fireworks and firecrackers injure
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Kids love to play in water. Whether it’s your toddler splashing with duckies in the bathtub, your pre-teen playing incessant Marco Polo games with his or her buddies, or your teenager showing off a spectacular dive for an admiring girlfriend or boyfriend, kids and water go together like the proverbial peanut butter and jelly. Unfortunately,
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Last week I talked about asbestos, that insidious substance that threatens the health and lives of New York construction workers. This week I want to talk about two of the most common and deadly diseases that workers develop when they inhale microscopic asbestos fibers over long periods of time at work: mesothelioma and asbestosis. Mesothelioma
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