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Federal Agencies Underreport Offshore Oil & Gas Deaths, Creating the Illusion of Safety
Recent investigations into the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (“BSEE”) allege that deaths of offshore oil and gas workers frequently go unreported. Specifically, “inconsistent and missing data, as well as loopholes that allow some fatalities to go unreported, make the offshore industry appear safer…
Blood Tests Now Required for Drivers Who Hit Pedestrians
The Texas legislature recently passed a law mandating blood tests following auto-pedestrian accidents. An auto-pedestrian accident is a motor vehicle accident in which a pedestrian is hit by a vehicle. Prior to the passing of this law, a driver’s blood was only tested if the…
Injuries Sustained Due to Defective Car Seatbacks on the Rise
Generally, people assume that the safest place for their child in a vehicle is the back seat. Unfortunately, the past several years of litigation indicate that defective car seatbacks place anyone sitting in the back seat of a vehicle in harm’s way. In recent years,…
Drowsy Driving On The Rise In Texas
According to a recent NHTSA report, Texas leads the nation in sleep-related fatalities on the road. More than twenty percent of sleep-related fatalities in the United States occur in the State of Texas, and about twenty percent in Texas involve sleepy drivers. According to the…
Deteriorating and Damaged Roads Causing Car Accidents in Houston and Across Texas
The roads in Texas, specifically Houston, Texas, have deteriorated to the point of constituting a driving hazard to Texas drivers. According to a study by CoPilot, nearly one-third of Houston roads, 28.6 percent, are in poor condition. 28.6 percent is worse than the national average…
Texas Now Has the Highest Rate of Workplace Fatalities in the United States, as Deaths on the Job Continue to Occur at a Disturbingly High Rate
In Texas, a worker dies at his or her workplace every day. In 2017, a worker in Texas died on the job on average every sixteen hours. These workers died as a result of electrocution, asphyxiation, falls, exposure to toxins, equipment malfunctions, heatstroke, and automobile…
Elevators: Box of Inherent Dangers
With elevators, we often take them for granted. You might consider the danger of the door closing too soon. You might stick your hand out to hold it open, or just stand back and wait for the next one. Yet once you are inside the…
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