News tagged with 'Workplace Injuries'

From the collapse of the World Trade Towers in September 11, 2001 until the first lawsuit is heard against NYC for failing to protect first responders - will be nine years. Today both sides agreed to a May 2010 date, but some who are suffering health problems today, may not be around by then.

It was the discounts of Black Friday that saw a Long Island crowd burst through the doors of a Wal-Mart and knock down a security guard trampling him to death. Others were injured including an 8-month pregnant woman.

Lori Drew was convicted by a Los Angeles jury of three misdemeanor counts for the internet hoax that led to a 13-year-old girl's suicide. She could have spent 20 years in prison.  The precedent setting case has established law in the area of cyberbullying.

A confidential out-of-court settlement has been reached with the Kaitlyn Lassiter's family who sued Kentucky Kingdom amusement park for negligence. Kaitlyn was 13 when a cable broke and severed her feet while riding the Superman Tower of Power ride.

After being dismissed in 2006, lawsuits against military contractors Halliburton and Kellogg Brown & Root (KBR), a former subsidiary, may go to trial in 2009. The lawsuits are over an ambush that left six civilian truck drivers in Iraq dead.

New and expanded laws regarding firearms mean that they may be closer than you think - like Sea World, Orlando and at the Atlanta Hartsfield Airport.  Disney World is refusing to allow guns in the cars of employees, despite a new guns-to-work law in Florida.

The value on replacing a life has been quietly reduced by the EPA as part of its cost/ benefit analysis. The Associated Press discovered the reduction of about $1 million on human life which goes directly to weighing the cost versus the lifesaving benefits of a proposed rule. The less a life is worth, the less a need for imposing regulations on pollution and toxic cleanup. 

A 14-year-old girl whose feet were severed by a ride at Six Flags Kentucky has filed a lawsuit and joined Rep. Edward Markey in calling for federal oversight through the CPSC over amusement parks.

iPod nanos are a hot commodity- literally. A number of reports of fires and melting batteries are coming to light. The latest in Japan has the Trade Minister there launching an investigation. The likely source - the lithium-ion battery.

The California Supreme Court has ruled that employers do not have to follow the state Compassionate Use Act and can legally fire employees who use medical marijuana to fight chronic pain.

Researchers at the University of California Los Angeles find that, particularly for women, a good marriage helps them cope with the stress of the workday. Levels of the stress hormone, cortisol, drops more when happily married women return home. The same is not true for men. Cortisol is associated with illness, depression, chronic fatigue, obesity and Type 2 diabetes.

KBR says much of Jamie Leigh Jones story is inaccurate. The president of KBR is speaking to employees in a memo reported by ABC. The global construction company says it acted properly and admits that the rape kit adminstered to Jones and handed over to security personnel is missing. 

She was just 19 years old when she went to work for Halliburton in Iraq.  Jamie Leigh Jones rape case against the contractor has languished until now.  Now its front and center in Washington and on ABC News.

Mine Collapse in Utah Traps Six Men Updated August 2007: On August 6, 2007 a coal mine collapsed on top of six men trapping them 1,500 feet underground. The coal miners are thought to be in a chamber that is 3.4 miles into the Crandall Canyon mine. The mine is about 140 miles south of Salt La

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