Albert Einstein once said, “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” Yet this is what both lawmakers and railroad companies are doing when it comes to installing Positive Train Control to stop railroad crashes, deaths and derailments. Lawmakers have already extended the dead line from…
Get ready for a long and complicated answer to the pretty simple question, “How safe are school buses in Virginia?” We’ll start with the good news. Buses, and the children who ride them to and from school, sporting events and extracurricular activities, crash less often than cars, trucks, motorcycles and bicycles. During the 2019-2020 school…
A collision between a public school bus and a pickup truck in Suffolk, Virginia (VA), sent six children and one adult to the hospital. The crash occurred on Nansemond Parkway near Milum Road on the afternoon of March 23, 2015. Treated for non-life-threatening injuries were children traveling home from Nansemond Parkway Elementary School and the…
Like the lyrics, “Workin’ for The Man ev’ry night and day …” from the song “Proud Mary.” Many American workers put in long hours and hard work in an effort to provide for their family. But what happens when a workplace is not safe? Recently a large manufacturing plant was fined for 25 safety violations…
The Minnesota Department of Health announced earlier this month that 21 new cases of mesothelioma have been discovered in a group of 69,000 mine workers. Eighty cases of mesothelioma had been found in the group before, and now the total of affected workers in the group is 101. All of the miners worked in the…