Five people were killed Wednesday night when a small jet crashed at a Georgia airport, according to the Savannah Morning News. http://savannahnow.com/latest-news/2013-02-21/thomson-jet-crash-kills-5-2-survivors-hospitalized#.USeccPJ9tvQ The plane, which had seven people on board, landed at Thomson-Duffie County Airport in Thomson, Ga., about 8…
A 69-year-old man sustained traumatic brain injury (TBI) when his pickup truck and a tractor trailer collided in Pennsylvania last Thursday, according to Phillyburbs.com. http://www.phillyburbs.com/my_town/quakertown/crash-victim-has-serious-brain-injury/article_8b789a83-40bd-5a67-add6-6017003911ae.html The accident victim, who Sunday remained hospitalized, hasn’t been identified by authorities. About 10 a.m.…
Three people were killed in a plane crash Thursday not far from Vero Beach , Fla., according to news reports by Inquisitr and WPTV. http://www.inquisitr.com/526895/indian-river-county-plane-crash-2013-video/#Z0rpHTDTWkdasoFB.99 http://www.wptv.com/dpp/news/region_st_lucie_county/missing-cessna-310-plane-found-in-indian-river-county The Cessna 310 left from Okeechobee en route to Bartow when a Miami control…
Federal safety officials are still going back and forth, and doing some finger-pointing, over the lithium-ion batteries that have proved so problematic on Boeing’s new 787 jets. The New York Times Friday had a story in which Deborah Hersman, the…
Don’t end up grilling yourself when you barbeque those steaks during the big game Sunday. On the eve of the Super Bowl, the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) is making good use of PSAs that “ESPN Sports Center” anchor Hannah…
Ten people were injured Wednesday when a tractor-trailer transporting a load of paint was struck by a commuter train in Little Falls, N.J., according to The Record. http://www.northjersey.com/littlefalls/Train_strikes_vehicle_in_Little_Falls.html Truck driver Jaswinder Singh was attempting to make a left turn from…
Injured oilfield workers are flocking to hospitals in North Dakota, which has had an oil boom. But this deluge of patients, many of them uninsured, is taxing the state’s health care system, according to The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/28/us/boom-in-north-dakota-weighs-heavily-on-health-care.html?_r=0 The…
The family of a man who has been hospitalized and unconscious since a Jan. 9 ferry crash in Manhattan have filed suit, seeking $45 million for the injuries he suffered, according to The Star-Ledger of Newark. The lawsuit lodged by…
A worker killed in an oilfield accident in North Dakota died of chest and abdominal injuries, according to the Associated Press. http://www.minotdailynews.com/page/content.detail/id/572623/Man-s-oil-field-death-in-ND-ruled-an-accident.html?nav=5583 The North Dakota Medical Examiner’s Office Tuesday released the cause of death of Halliburton employee Mike Krajewski, 49,…