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• Arkansas town passes ordinance in wake of pit bull attack

  Barry Doyle | May 06, 2007 6:00 PM | 0 CommentsCook County, IL

  In Van Buren, Arkansas, the town council passed a vicious dog ordinance after a woman there was attacked by a pit bull. The ordinance covers vicious dogs and requires the owners to keep the animals in chain link fence enclosure, carry $1 million in liability insurance, and have a microchip implanted in the dog.The woman was suffered puncture wounds to her hand when she was bitten while...

• Scaffold collapse results in fall

  Barry Doyle | May 05, 2007 8:30 AM | 0 CommentsCook County, IL

  A worker on a Maryland construction site was injured when the planking to the scaffolding he was working on broke. He fell from the scaffold 37 feet to the ground.The worker suffered spinal fractures which may result in paralysis.Because scaffolds raise workers so high up in the air, OSHA regulations require that all of the component parts be in safe and proper condition. This requires...

• Motorcycle cop injured in action

  Barry Doyle | April 12, 2007 8:45 AM | 0 CommentsCook County, IL

  A Tulsa police officer was injured while pursuing a fleeing motorist when another driver failed to stop for the siren and flashing lights and pulled into an intersection in front of him. He hit the rear bumper of the car and flipped over.He suffered numerous injuries, including a fracured collarbone, a fractured tailbone, multiple rib fractures, and road rash.Every motorist has the obligation...

• Leg amputation leads to lawsuit against nursing home

  Barry Doyle | March 14, 2007 9:30 AM | 0 CommentsCook County, IL

  A Boston-area nursing home has been sued for neglect after untreated pressure sores led to the amputation of a resident's leg. The staff had advised the resident's family that the decline in their mother's health was due to her body shutting down as she was near death.After she was admitted to a hospital, the family discovered that their mother's decline in health was due to untreated pressure...

• Escalators in Dallas airport produce frequent injuries

  Barry Doyle | February 15, 2007 11:59 AM | 0 CommentsCook County, IL

  A recent story by a Dallas TV station highlighted some of the dangers arising from inadequate maintenance of escalators. The story reported that there had been 825 injuries reported on escalators at that airport during the five years before the story ran.The victims were hurt in various ways, including a mangled hand, a severed knee tendon, back injuries, and other injuries.Escalator...

• Fall from roof kills one, injures one

  Barry Doyle | February 10, 2007 11:00 AM | 0 CommentsCook County, IL

  At a new home construction project, two Alabama roofers fell from the roof that they were working on. Conditions were foggy on the day of the fall, and authorities believe that made the roofing felt they were working on slick.The men fell 40 feet from the roof to a concrete patio below. The fall was fatal for one man; the other sustained serious injuries.This is another accident which resulted...

• Nursing home fined in morphine overdose

  Barry Doyle | February 06, 2007 7:30 AM | 0 CommentsCook County, IL

  The state of California fined a Sacramento-area nursing home $100,000 -- the largest amount permitted -- when a resident of the nursing home received a massive overdose of morphine. The physician's order called for the resdient to receive 10 milligrams per hour. Instead he received over 120 milligrams over a two-hour time span.The resident died as a result of the medication overdose.Nurses in...

• Rottweiler attacks woman and her dog

  Barry Doyle | February 05, 2007 12:45 PM | 0 CommentsCook County, IL

  An elderly Texas woman survived an attack by a neighbor's rottweiler after the rottweiler attacked her as she was out walking her pet chihuahua. This was the second time the woman and a pet chihuahua had been attacked by the same dog. The chihuahua involved in this attack survived; the one in the earlier attack did not.The woman suffered bruises and contusions as a result of the attack. The...

• Illinois man killed in fatal truck accident

  Barry Doyle | January 10, 2007 7:45 AM | 0 CommentsCook County, IL

  An accident in Boone County, Indiana has left an Illinois man dead. The man was killed after he slowed for traffic which was backed due up to an accident ahead. A tractor-trailer was behind him and failed to slow with traffic and rear ended him.The impact caused his vehicle to leave the road and strike a concrete median, killing him.Accidents such as this demonstrate the tremendous power of...

• Crane accident kills operator

  Barry Doyle | January 09, 2007 6:00 AM | 0 CommentsCook County, IL

  An Iowa crane operator was recently killed in an accident on a construction site. At the time of the accident, he was operating a crane which moving a large aggregate hopper. The crane tipped over and pinned him in between the cab of the crane and an electrical transformer.An OSHA investigation was underway to determine the cause of the accident. Construction safety standards require that...