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An Analysis of Crane-Related Deaths at Construction Sites and Recommendations for Their Prevention

Posted on August 30, 2008
The New York City crane collapses of March 15, 2008, and May 30, 2008, and the collapse of a 20-foot crane section in Miami that fell 30 stories, killing two construction workers and injuring five, set off an alarm within the construction community and city dwellers...

They’re Marketing Prescription Medications to Our Children in Our Schools

Posted on August 27, 2008
Advocates for children are upset that Alloy Media and Marketing has run ads for prescription drugs from its Channel One website. Channel One provides free news and original programming to about 10,000 middle and high schools. Channel One is, in the opinion of many, a controversial in-school news program that makes viewing ads a compulsory [...

Fire Department Report of Fatal Deutsche Bank Fire Blames NYC Fire and Buildings Departments and the Building?s Contractor

Posted on August 25, 2008
Two firefighters, Robert Beddia, 53, and Joseph Graffagnino, 33, died in the fire that broke out from a discarded cigarette butt in the former Deutsche Bank building fire of August 18th, 2007 during the demolition of the building. After the death of a firefighter, the Fire Department always empanels a team to study any problems [...

MTA’s Own Study Confirms Decrepit Conditions of NYC’s Subway Stations

Posted on August 21, 2008
A study conducted by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority?s own advocacy organization for transit riders, the Permanent Citizens Advisory Committee, found that nearly half of the subway stations examined (23 out of 50) need more attention, and that the worst stations had decrepit conditions, including water damage, exposed wires, rodents, foul odors, clogged track drains and [...

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Injury Estimates for the Top 25 Product Groupings in 2007 from the Consumer Product Safety Commission

Posted on August 17, 2008
The Consumer Product Safety Commission?s National Electronic Injury Surveillance System (NEISS) provides the agency and other federal agencies with critically important incident and injury information. More than 34 million consumer product-related injuries were medically treated annually from 2004 through 2006...

Dog Owner Can Be Liable for Injuries Caused by Violation of “Leash Law”

Posted on August 14, 2008
In last month’s decision by the in Petrone v. Fernandez, 2008 WL 2669298, a Queens mail carrier injured her finger while jumping feet-first into her vehicle to avoid a rampaging Rottweiler. Plaintiff Melanie Petrone was making her rounds on the morning of May 9, 2005, when she observed an unleashed dog on the defendants’ lawn [...

Do You Think The Food and Beverage Industry Can Self-Regulate Its $1.6 Billion Marketing Towards Children and Adolescents?

Posted on August 11, 2008
A report of the Federal Trade Commission, Marketing Food to Children and Adolescents: A Review of Industry Expenditures, Activities, and Self-Regulation, finds that 44 major food and beverage marketers spent $1.6 billion to promote their products to children under 12 and adolescents ages 12 to 17 in the United States in 2006...

Add Laser Beams to List of Potential Injury Hazards at Concerts

Posted on August 08, 2008
People go to hear live music for a good time, but it’s not unheard of for disaster in the form of personal injury or death to strike. For example, on February 20. 2003, fire erupted at a Great White concert fire killing 100 and injuring 180. The fire started when a spark from the band’s [...

What to Do About Suffolk County’s New York Route 347

Posted on August 06, 2008
The tortuous history of New York Route 347 in Suffolk County and its troubles with the traffic impacts of low?density strip mall development has again come to the public fore due to some recent accidents. On July 30, 2008, a Lake Grove woman, Effatolsadat Ghozati, 66, was struck by car and killed while crossing westbound [...

?Safer Subways? Report Finds Severe Maintenance Flaws In NYC?s Subway System

Posted on August 03, 2008
A 14-year-old fell off the platform after the rotted wooden rubbing board at the edge of the platform gave way beneath him, launching him into the path of an incoming train. Fortunately, he pulled himself to safety just in time. A senior citizen was sitting in her vehicle when a piece of the rail from [...

Rise In Construction Fatalities In New York City Prompts Aggressive Action by OSHA

Posted on July 31, 2008
Beginning June 23, 2008, OSHA brought a dozen additional inspectors into New York City to conduct proactive inspections of high-rise construction sites, cranes, and other places, where fatalities and serious accidents have been occurring. In January through June of this year, 20 employees died in construction-related accidents...

Trends in Pedestrian Fatalities

Posted on July 27, 2008
After hearing about Robert Novak’s accident this past week when his Corvette (with the top down) struck a pedestrian, we thought that it would be interesting to note some of the statistics contained in last month’s National Pedestrian Crash Report released by the National Center for Statistics and Analysis, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration...

Robert Novak’s Corvette - More Proof of The Importance of Having a Witness When You?re Injured in an Accident

Posted on July 24, 2008
Syndicated columnist Robert Novak was involved in a motor vehicle accident yesterday when his black Chevrolet Corvette struck a pedestrian who was crossing a street while crossing with a ?Walk? signal within a crosswalk. Novak did not stop at the scene of accident but continued driving...

Do You You Know What “Hash Value” Is? New York State Uses It to Combat Child Pornography on the Internet

Posted on July 21, 2008
Every online picture has a unique “Hash Value” that, once identified and collected, can be used to digitally match the same image anywhere else it is distributed. It is analagous to a fingerprint. As part of an undercover investigation, the New York State Attorney General’s office built a library of the Hash Values for images [...

New Federal and State Laws Attempt to Reduce Swimming Pool Drownings

Posted on July 17, 2008
Summer always seems to fill newspapers and news reports with heart wrenching stories of young children drowning in their family?s or a neighbor?s swimming pool. On Long Island through July 14 of this year there have been six residential swimming pool drownings, including three children younger than 4...

NHTSA Special Crash Investigations: Protecting Children In and Around Cars; Backover and Non-Crash Events

Posted on July 14, 2008
The Special Crash Investigations unit of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has, since October 2006, been collecting detailed data on backover and non-crash events to support the agency’s efforts to mitigate these kinds of incidents...

Deaths on Dangerous Jericho Turnpike in Suffolk County Prompt Changes in Road Configuration and Speed Limit

Posted on July 09, 2008
The state Department of Transportation yesterday unveiled changes to a stretch of Jericho Turnpike, from Old Willets Path to Meadow Road, in Smithtown where three teenagers were killed last year in a car accident on their lunch break from school. A primary purpose of the changes is to slow drivers down by reconfiguring the roadway [...

Think Hospital Records Don?t Lie? Let?s Go to the Videotape

Posted on July 06, 2008
According to the medical records of the psychiatric emergency room at Kings County Hospital Center in Brooklyn, New York, a patient named Esmin Elizabeth Green, who had been brought to the hospital almost 24 hours earlier but had not yet been seen by a doctor, was sitting quietly in a chair...

Gentlemen Start Your Engines: Faster Golf Carts = More Injuries

Posted on July 03, 2008
Golf carts have become much faster and more powerful - some can reach 25 mph and travel over 40 miles on a single battery charge. Golf carts are now routinely used for transportation purposes at sporting events, hospitals, airports, national parks, college campuses, businesses and military bases...

2008 City Analysis of Child Deaths in Motor Vehicle Accidents and in Fires

Posted on July 01, 2008
The 2008 report of the New York City Child Fatality Review Team (CFRT) looks retrospectively at injury deaths for the years 2001 through 2006 for New York City children aged 1 to 12 years. The single largest contributor to child injury deaths overall and to unintentional deaths are motor vehicle accidents, especially those involving child [...

Insurance Institute for Highway Safety Tests Vehicle Passenger Safety in Rollover and Rear-End Accidents

Posted on June 29, 2008
Rollover crashes constitute 3 percent of passenger vehicle crashes, but about one third of the fatalities. Injuries can occur even if there is minimal roof deformation after a crash. At other times vehicle occupants are unharmed even if there is significant roof deformation...

A New Fire Code and an Improved Building Code For New York City Effective July 1, 2008

Posted on June 27, 2008
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg has signed legislation establishing a new Fire Code for the City of New York, effective July 1, 2008. It is the first comprehensive revision since the City’s Fire Code was adopted in 1913. The Fire Code, enforced by the Fire Department, governs emergency preparedness and planning and more specifically the permit [...

Major League Baseball?s Liability for Injuries Resulting from Shattering Maple Bats

Posted on June 25, 2008
When players or spectators are injured at sporting events, a common and often successful defense alleged by the team or stadium owner is that the person injured assumed the risk of injury; in other words that the injury is considered to be an acceptable risk understood and known to the injured person...

Protest and Crane Dismantling Latest Developments Highlight Critical Importance of NYC’s Proposed Legislation To Increase Construction Site Safety

Posted on June 22, 2008
Families of the firefighters who died in last summer’s fire at the former Deutsche Bank building held a demonstration at the Manhattan site yesterday morning to call for construction site safety and reform throughout New York City. Meanwhile, a Kodiak crane owned by New York Crane at a Washington Street construction site is being dismantled [...

New York State Bar Association Creates Task Force To Study Proliferation Of Wrongful Convictions

Posted on June 19, 2008
The new President of the New York State Bar Association Bernice Leber, noting that the number of criminal convictions overturned in New York State is undermining public confidence in the justice system, recently announced the creation of a Task Force on Wrongful Convictions...

June Through August is the Deadliest Time of Year for 15-Passenger Van Occupants

Posted on June 17, 2008
New research from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has found June through August to be the deadliest time of year for 15-passenger van occupants, due to rollover crashes. Statistics show that 31 percent of fatal rollovers involving 15-passenger vans occur during the busy summer travel months...

From Cranes to Window Washers to Trenches, Construction Accidents Roil New York City

Posted on June 15, 2008
It seems that troubling news regarding the construction industry and construction accidents in New York City are heard on a daily basis. 15 people in construction-related accidents have been killed in the city so far this year, compared with 12 in all of 2007...

Medtronic Recalls Selected Heparin-Coated Products

Posted on June 12, 2008
Medtronic, Inc., in what is termed a precautionary measure, has voluntary recalled selected products featuring its Carmeda BioActive surface, a coating applied to some devices used in heart bypass surgery and dialysis, because the coating includes contaminated heparin, a blood thinner that has been linked to 81 deaths...

Court Victories Last Week for Fantasy Baseball and Mayor Bloomberg

Posted on June 09, 2008
Last week, the United States Supreme Court declined to accept an appeal of an 8th Circuit decision that upheld a fantasy baseball company?s right to use, without license, the names of, statistics and information about major league baseball players in connection with its fantasy baseball products...

Litigation Again Reveals What Big Pharma Wants Kept Secret

Posted on June 05, 2008
Recent federal court filings in the Ortho Evra products liability litigation disclosed that Johnson & Johnson hid data from the FDA about their birth control patch?s side effects and failed to address flaws in the manufacturing process which could increase the risk of serious and potentially fatal problems...

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