Three children suffered serious, but not life-threatening, injuries when the Ford Mustang in which they were riding ran out of control and flipped over on I-295 in Mechanicsville, Virginia (VA), on the night of September 27, 2014. One of the kids was ejected from the car as it rolled over, and the driver also required…
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is imposing serious financial penalties on companies that are alleged to have fired truck drivers for making safety complaints. In two recent cases, OSHA ordered trucking companies to fork over more than $1 million to truck drivers who were let go after they complained that they were coerced…
Despite the good pay of many over the road truck driving jobs – a wage that often rivals the salaries of many college graduates – the profession is having trouble attracting enough new drivers. Annual turnover rates are as high as 100% at many trucking companies, and the majority of drivers in the US are…
In 2011, Julie Henson was working at her Colorado office when co-worker pulled out her chair from under her. The office prank caused her to fall and hit her head. She may not have thought much of the fall at the time, but later she suffered from headaches, then brain swelling, then a cyst in…
Injuries suffered in a collision between the SUV in which she was riding and a dump truck at the intersection of NC 55 and McCrimmon Parkway in Cary, North Carolina (NC), proved fatal for a 15-year-old girl. She had been traveling to high school with her brother and a friend on the morning on September…