Americans fall every day. While sometimes these falls result in nothing more serious than a bit of embarrassment and a bruised ego, all too often serious injuries are the unfortunate outcome. What makes these injuries infuriating is when they could have been prevented, and a careless or negligent property owner simply failed to provide a […]
Take a look at the New York skyline, and you’ll see scaffolding just about everywhere. The construction industry is alive and well in New York, without a doubt. And as great as that is for New Yorkers in many ways, it also raises the specter of construction site accidents. Unfortunately, scaffolding is the site of[…..]
Opioid addiction is claiming the lives and livelihoods of millions of Americans across the country. Many who suffer from addiction were introduced to opioids through their own doctors, trusting that the prescriptions they took were safe. But the facts reveal that nothing could be further from the truth. Worse, manufacturers were aware of the addictive[…..]
Who would guess that sanitation work is the fifth-deadliest job in this country? That’s right, sanitation workers are at a greater risk of being killed than even law enforcement officers and firefighters. The statistics are alarming: one worker dies in the waste industry every week in America. Over 80 percent of them work for private[…..]
