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Baby Bracelets and Pacifier Clips Recalled Due To Lead Hazard

Posted on February 17, 2010
Allreds Design (d/b/a Hidden Hollow Beads), in cooperation with the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), is voluntarily recalling Baby Bracelets and Pacifier Clips because the clasps contain high levels of lead, which can be toxic if ingested by young children...

Four Tractor Trailers Collide on New Jersey Turnpike

Posted on February 16, 2010
February 16, 2010 A chain reaction accident on the New Jersey Turnpike involved four tractor-trailers, a pickup and an SUV. The accident happened about 11:30 a.m. Tuesday morning in the northbound lanes near mile-marker 56.6 in Burlington County. NJ...

New York Man Arrested in Investment Scheme

Posted on February 16, 2010
February 15, 2010 Federal authorities have arrested an Albany investment broker on charges of securities fraud. United States Attorney Richard S. Hartunian of the Northern District of New York said in a release that Christopher Bass, 52, of Menands, NY, is charged in an investment scheme that involves more than 200 investors who collectively invested more than $5,500,000...

Teen Beats Elderly Roommate to Death at NJ Behavioral Health Facility

Posted on February 15, 2010
February 14, 2010 An 18-year-old patient at a New Jersey behavioral health facility beat his elderly roommate to death on Thursday, according to the Mercer County Prosecutor's office. Centraljersey.com reports that Princeton Township Police responded to a call at Princeton House Behavioral Health about 11 p...

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Fire on NJ Transit Train Halts Rail Service and Sends Passengers to Hospital

Posted on February 15, 2010
February 13, 2010 A fire aboard a New Jersey Transit train today sent three passengers to the hospital and halted train service in the Northeast Corridor for hours. The engine of the Atlantic City Express Service (ACES) train, carrying passengers from Atlantic City to New York City, caught fire about 5:30 p...

NJ Transit Bus Runs over Man?s Legs

Posted on February 12, 2010
February 12, 2010 A man is recovering in the hospital after a NJ Transit Bus ran over his legs, according to PressofAtlanticCity.com. The accident happened Tuesday evening as Robert Fortune, 52, of Ventnor, exited the bus with other passengers at Arkansas Avenue and Atlantic Avenue in Atlantic City...

New York Company Recalls Baby Products Due to Quality Complaints and Injury

Posted on February 12, 2010
February 11, 2010 The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) announced a recall of infant's wind chime toys today because the toy poses puncture and laceration hazards to the baby. Consumers are warned to stop using the recalled products immediately...

Lingering Nicotine on Smoker, Clothes, Car and Home is Health Hazard, Especially to Children

Posted on February 12, 2010
February 10, 2010 Primary and second-hand tobacco smokes are documented causes of cancer, cardiovascular disease and stroke, pulmonary disease and birth defects. Adverse health effects from second hand smoke have prompted legislation banning smoking in government, workplaces and public establishments across the United States, but researchers have only recently studied risks of contact with residual nicotine that clings to surfaces, fabrics and even a smoker's skin...

FDA Announces Plan to Reduce Patient Radiation Errors at Medical Facilities

Posted on February 12, 2010
February 9, 2010 The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today announced an initiative to prevent patients from receiving unnecessary radiation exposure during computed tomography (CT), nuclear medicine studies and fluoroscopy medical imaging procedures...

Stents Can Be Unnecessary!

Posted on February 11, 2010
Imagine going to your cardiologist, who you trust, to determine the extent of any coronary artery blockage you may have, only to have the truth misrepresented so that the doctor or hospital can make more money by billing for an unnecessary stent placement into your coronary arteries...

Study Links Soda to Increase of Pancreatic Cancer

Posted on February 08, 2010
February 8, 2010 A new study published in the February 2010 issue of Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research, has linked the consumption of two or more sodas a week to an increased rate of pancreatic cancer...

PA Mall Evacuated Due to Carbon Monoxide

Posted on February 07, 2010
February 7, 2010 Firefighters responding to a report of a diesel leak just before noon Sunday at a Delaware County shopping mall, instead found deadly carbon monoxide. The Lima Fire Company of Middleton Township evacuated the Granite Run Mall in Media, PA after detecting high levels of carbon monoxide they attributed to a fuel leak in the heater room of the JC Penney department store...

Two Critically Injured after Hitting Sleeping Drunk?s Parked Car in Road

Posted on February 07, 2010
February 6, 2010 An accident in Newark has left two critically injured after their car rear-ended the vehicle of a drunken man who parked in the middle of the road and went to sleep, reported The Star-Ledger. A drunken Rolondo Ibarrafreire, 29, of Linden, parked his Ford pickup truck in the southbound left lanes of Routes 1&9 and then fell asleep, according to police...

Passenger Falls Through Platform Gap at LIRR Syosset Station

Posted on February 07, 2010
February 5, 2010 A man suffered injuries when he exited the train and fell through the gap between the train and the platform onto the track at the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) Syosset station on Tuesday, the Syosset Jericho Tribune reported. The accident happened about 1 p...

Parents, Check Your Children?s Jewelry Again ? Another Recall

Posted on February 07, 2010
February 4, 2010 The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) announced two separate recalls of children's jewelry products on Tuesday due to dangerous lead content. Children are extremely susceptible to lead poisoning because they have a habit of placing hands and objects in the mouth, sometimes accidentally swallowing small toys that may contain lead...

Carbon Monoxide Closes 2 Philly Restaurants and a 550 Student Dorm, Injuries Reported

Posted on February 02, 2010
February 1, 2010 The Philly Fire Department responded to an Art Institute of Philadelphia dormitory building at 1346 Chestnut Street in Center City early this morning after carbon monoxide (CO) detectors started ringing about 5 a.m. The crews found high levels of the odorless deadly gas in the 14-story building that houses about 550 students and two restaurants, the Capital Grill and the Olive Garden on the first floor...

CSX Worker Falls from Bridge into the Hackensack River

Posted on February 02, 2010
January 31, 2010 A worker for the CSX Corporation has died from injuries incurred in a fall from a CSX bridge into the Hackensack River, The Jersey Journal reported. About 4:30 a.m. on Friday morning, Robert Fitzgerald, 55, of North Arlington, was working on the CSX bridge adjacent to the Wittpenn Bridge, which connects Jersey City with Kearny along route 7, when he fell 50 feet into the frigid water below...

Government Seeks to Recall and Regulate Cadmium in Children?s Products

Posted on February 02, 2010
Following an investigation by the Associated Press, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) has tested and recalled two Disney necklaces because they contain cadmium, a metal that is dangerous to children. In the first cadmium related recall in U...

Company Gets Wrong Address and Fills Long Island Man?s Basement with Heating Oil

Posted on February 02, 2010
A Long Island man came home from work Tuesday afternoon to a find a huge mess in his basement. Lance Leach, of Freeport, found that his old heating oil supplier had made a mistake with the address and pumped heating oil into the old exterior fill pipe...

Police Say Trucker Watching Porn Caused Death of Mother of Two

Posted on February 02, 2010
At a time when Federal and State governments are regulating or prohibiting the use of hand held phones and devices while driving, Thomas Wallace, 45, drove his big rig on the highway while watching pornographic movies on his laptop computer and killed the mother of two little boys...

Study Finds PBDE's in Common Household Products Reduce Fertility in Women

Posted on February 02, 2010
A study by researchers at the University of California, Berkely has linked reduced fertility in women to exposure of a compound in flame-retardants used in common household items such as foam furniture, electronics, fabrics, carpets and plastics. Polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs), in three formulations of pentaBDE, octaBDE and decaBDE, were developed for use as flame-retardants in the 1970's when the United States developed new fire safety standards...

Children's Necklaces Recalled Due to High Levels of Cadmium

Posted on January 29, 2010
Children's Metal Necklaces imported by FAF Inc., have been voluntarily recalled due to high levels of cadium. Cadmium is a known carcinogen. Like lead, it can hinder brain development in the very young, according to recent research. To this date there have been no reports of injury associated with the recalled products...

Toyota Recalls Millions of Cars

Posted on January 28, 2010
Toyota announced on Thursday that it will recall an additional 1.09 million vehicles in the United States because of problems with gas pedals and floor mats, which comes only a day after Toyota announced that it would suspend U.S. sales of eight models - including the Camry, America's top-selling car - to fix faulty gas pedals that could stick and cause acceleration without warning...

NYC Sanitation Worker, Father of Two Killed on the Job

Posted on January 27, 2010
January 26, 2010 An 11-year veteran of the Department of Sanitation of New York (DSNY) was killed as he collected garbage on his regular route Tuesday morning. Frank Justich, 41, collected garbage from a trash container at about 7:45 a.m. near the corner of Ditmars Boulevard and 35th Street in Astoria when the driver of a tractor-trailer attempted to make a right turn, striking and pinning Justich to the sanitation truck...

?Tanning beds are the cigarettes of our time: cancer-causing and poorly regulated.?

Posted on January 27, 2010
January 25, 2010 That is what U.S. Representative Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) said in a press release today. She and U.S. Rep. Charlie Dent (R-PA) will introduce the Tanning Bed Cancer Control Act before Congress tomorrow, which will address tanning bed safety by expanding U...

Candle Lighters Recalled By Zippo

Posted on January 27, 2010
Zippo Manufacturing, in conjunction with the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), is recalling more than 17,000 Zippo Slatkin & Co. Candle Lighters. The lighters can produce an excessive flame on the maximum flame setting, posing a burn hazard...

The New York Times Exposes Radiation Errors in New York Hospitals

Posted on January 24, 2010
January 24, 2010 An article by The New York Times yesterday revealed startling results of an investigation into radiation treatment errors at New York hospitals and illustrated two cases with tragic consequences. The article also exposed the lack of radiation error reporting regulations and government or industry oversight...

Tanker Truck Explosion Closes LI Expressway, Kills Brooklyn Man

Posted on January 24, 2010
January 23, 2010 A Saturday morning accident on the Long Island Expressway involving a tanker truck has left one person dead and another injured. The accident happened about 8 a.m. on the eastbound lanes of the LIE, between Melville and Plainview. The tanker truck was delivering 15,000 gallons of gasoline from Brooklyn to Long Island when the driver attempted to pass a Dodge Neon driven by Stephanie Medina, 29, of Bayonne, NJ that had slowed due to mechanical difficulties...

Toyota Admits Sudden Acceleration is Not Just Due to Floor Mats ? 2.3 Million More Vehicles Recalled

Posted on January 23, 2010
January 22, 2010 Toyota Motor Sales (TMS) U.S.A., Inc. announced on Thursday that the company is recalling approximately 2.3 million Toyota brand vehicles to correct sticking accelerator pedals caused by mechanical wear that may trigger unexpected acceleration...

Cribs Can Be Traps

Posted on January 21, 2010
When you have a baby, the last thing you want to think about is whether the crib you purchased is safe - especially whether or not your drop-side crib will injure your child or even cause your child's death. Cribs are meant to be a safe haven for your newborn, and should create a sense of security, warmth, and fun for your infant...

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