1889 was the first year in which data about railroad accidents and injuries was collected. During that year 1,972 railroad workers lost their lives on the job which equates to one out of every 375 employees. Last year there were 15 fatal railroad accidents that took the lives of employees. The acting Chairman of the…
A community college in northern Texas is grieving this week after four players on its women’s softball team died when a tractor trailer crossed the median on I-35 and slammed into their team bus. The wreck happened near Davis, Oklahoma late in the evening of Sept. 26, and the driver’s side of the North Central…
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…