ATLANTA, Sept. 30–On May 7, 2008, Jose Rivera was working as a painter on a residential construction site in Atlanta, Georgia when he opened what he thought was a closet door on the third floor and fell approximately 30 feet down an open elevator shaft that had no guardrails, barricades, or any other type of [...]
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today warned consumers to stop using infant sleep positioners. Over the past 13 years, CPSC and the FDA have received 12 reports of infants between the ages of 1 month and 4 four months who died when [...]
The National Safety Council today issued this statement related to the latest distracted driving research from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety and the Highway Loss Data Institute: The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) and its Highway Loss Data Institute (HLDI) today reported research that texting bans in several states have not reduced crashes. [...]
The FDA today issued warning letters to three companies that manufacture and market mouth rinse products with claims that they remove plaque above the gum line or promote healthy gums. These claims suggest the products are effective in preventing gum disease when no such benefit has been demonstrated. Warning letters were sent to, Johnson & [...]
Nearly 400 child drownings and near-tragedies* nationwide have been reported by the media since Memorial Day weekend, leading the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) to bring its Pool Safely campaign to Minnesota. The campaign is teaming up with Senator Amy Klobuchar (the leading advocate in the United States Senate of a lifesaving pool and [...]
The number of police pursuits in Pennsylvania dropped 12.9 percent last year, State Police Commissioner Frank E. Pawlowski announced today. He said the number of pursuits resulting in deaths and injuries also declined from 2008. Pawlowski said law enforcement agencies across the state reported involvement in 1,582 vehicle pursuits in 2009, compared to 1,816 pursuits [...]
Governor Schwarzenegger has signed legislation – AB 1597 (authored by Assemblyman Dave Jones) to maintain California’s innovative auto insurance program for low-income Californians with good driving records. The California Low Cost Auto Insurance program (CLCA) (http://www.insurance.ca.gov/0100-consumers/0060-information-guides/0010-automobile/lca/index.cfm), which was set to expire this year without AB 1597′s 5-year extension, has provided car insurance to more than [...]
The National Transportation Safety Board will hold a public Board meeting on Tuesday, September 28, 2010, at 9:30 a.m. in its Board Room and Conference Center, 429 L’Enfant Plaza, S.W., Washington, D.C. There is one agenda item. On June 26, 2009, a multivehicle accident occurred on Interstate 44 near Miami, Oklahoma, shortly after a minor [...]
Advocates struck a blow Thursday for protecting youth athletes from the devastating impact of concussion. Top experts gathered on Capitol Hill to explain why traumatic brain injury takes such a toll on individuals and society and to recommend federal legislation with certain key provisions. The briefing was sponsored by the American College of Sports Medicine [...]
African-American victims of motorcycle crashes were 1.5 times more likely to die from their injuries than similarly injured whites, even though many more of the African-American victims were wearing helmets at the time of injury, according to a new study by Johns Hopkins researchers. Results of the research revealing these racial disparities, published in the [...]