Personal Injury Blog

FMCSA Shows Increase in Truck-related Fatalities

Sep. 20, 2019 The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) has delivered some sobering news about large-truck-related fatalities, noting that over the last three years the number of people in large trucks who died in…

Construction Industry has Second Most Fatalities in California

Feb. 7, 2019 A report from the California Department of Industrial Relations Division of Occupational Safety and Health (Cal/OSHA) examines the number of fatal workplace deaths in 2017 and over the five-year period before. Although…

Driverless Cars Involved in California Car Crashes

Jan. 21, 2019 As autonomous car companies push to get their vehicles out on the roads, more of the self-driving vehicles are involved in car crashes. Most of the car crashes are minor incidents involving…

Small Companies Make Up Highest Number of Construction Fatalities

Feb. 14, 2019 Smaller construction companies have fewer employers, but they have a high number of construction fatalities, according to a report from the Center for Construction Research and Training (CPWR). That may partially be…

Trucking Among Deadliest Jobs in the USA

Feb. 13, 2019 A new report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics suggests that trucking is one of the deadliest jobs in the US. Given the size of big rigs, the crashes they are involved…

FDA Proposes Restrictions for Flavored E-Cigarettes

December 4, 2018 Citing epidemic levels of teen vaping, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) proposed restrictions for e-cigarettes and called on makers of the devices to actively take measures to prevent youths from…

PG&E’s Violations Allegedly Include Omissions and Falsifying Reports

Jan. 10, 2019 After two years of California wildfires that have been linked or potentially linked to Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E), an explosion that the utility faced criminal charges for, and continued allegations of…

California Construction Company Fined for Workplace Fatality

Dec. 20, 2018 The California Occupational Health and Safety Administration (Cal/OSHA), fined a California construction company following the death of a construction worker when a trench collapsed at a residential development. The agency found that…

Two Workers Fall to their Death in Florida Construction Accident

Highlighting just how dangerous the construction industry can be, two construction workers in Florida recently fell to their deaths in a scaffolding accident. The men died during a scaffolding collapse that sent them plummeting approximately…

Construction Worker Dies After Being Hit with Steel Beam

August 15, 2018 A construction worker has died after he was hit by a temporary steel beam on his California job site on Friday, August 10, 2018. The worker, Patrick Ricketts, was on a job…