A worker has been hospitalized after the elevator he was working on caused him to fall several floors. Emergency rescuers responded to a call from Southern States located on Fields Street in Farmville, North Carolina (N.C.). Upon their arrival to the accident scene they described seeing the victim as sitting up, but still inside the…
There’s been a lot of media coverage on the dangers associated with texting and driving . Studies have shown texting behind the wheel is 23 times more dangerous than driving without the distraction . However, you don’t need a car to suffer a serious injury from texting. In fact, people who text while walking are at risk…
A North Carolina resident was injured in a Virginia restaurant, when she suffered a trip and fall injury which she asserted was caused by a defective condition in the restaurant. She suffered orthopedic injuries that were handled with doctors in North Carolina. One of the legal issues in the trip and fall case was whether…
Thirty-seven-year Hampton Roads Sanitation District veteran Randy Piche died after falling through an opening on an elevated walkway at Norfolk’s Army Base Treatment Plant on Tuesday morning. Neither HRSD nor the Virginia Occupational Safety and Health department have determined the cause of the fatal accident. My colleague Rick Shapiro notes in his latest post to…
Julie Lehman never returned home from a July 21 trip to her local Wal-Mart in Chadron, Nebraska (NE). Visiting the store with her 17-year-old son Steffan, Lehman slipped on a wet patch of floor near the restrooms, suffered a serious brain injury when hitting her head after falling and died a short time later from…