Recent Posts in Catastrophic Injury Category
Posted on Jul 26, 2012 By The Doan Law Firm P.C.
"We found that every high school student who joins any group-from gangs to church groups, from the football team to the band-is at risk of being hazed," said a doctor who conducted an ...
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Posted on Jul 26, 2011 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
Austin's W Hotel closed after glass fell from balcony panels of the building the second straight day and the third time in the past few weeks, reports say. The hotel was closed as the glass panels ...
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Posted on May 2, 2011 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
Last week a demolition worker suffered fatal injuries after being trapped underneath a 1,000 pound section of concrete slab during a demolition. The building being demolished was the historic 1965 ...
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Posted on Apr 5, 2011 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
Reports say Smith & Nephew's Advanced Wound Management division recently announced a U.S. voluntary nationwide recall of some alcohol prep products, such as pads, wipes, and swabs over concerns ...
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Posted on Feb 22, 2011 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
According to reports, the Federal Aviation Administration has approved a regulation that requires operators of older US-registered Boeing 737s to install new warning systems within three years that ...
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Posted on Feb 1, 2011 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
A freak accident in Bellevue, Iowa left one dead and 23 others injured when two runaway horses pulling a wagon trampled spectators at a small-town Fourth of July parade, reports say. The horses became ...
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Posted on Dec 17, 2010 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
A 28-year-old Male was stabbed just outside a Houston nightclub, then chased into the parking lot, where the assailant stabbed him again numerous times. The incident, which reportedly occurred outside ...
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Posted on Nov 21, 2010 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
A three-year-old boy lost a finger recently following an accident on a Macy's escalator, reports say. Even though doctors tried desperately to save the finger, it was eventually amputated. The boy, ...
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Posted on Oct 5, 2010 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
A Knox County, Kentucky resident, died recently at Central Baptist Hospital in Lexington after being admitted for intestinal problems. The victim, Vickie Shelton, had eaten ground beef before becoming ...
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Posted on Sep 10, 2010 By Personal Injury Lawyer
A North Carolina machinist was killed earlier this month as a metal rod departed the high-speed lathe on which he worked, striking and killing him. The accident, which occurred at the Statesville ...
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Posted on Sep 9, 2010 By Personal Injury Attorney
A 21-year-old operator of the monorail at Walt Disney World died recently when the monorail he was piloting crashed into another train. Reports say the accident happened at the Transportation and ...
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Posted on Sep 7, 2010 By Personal Injury Attorney
A Kentucky machinist was killed last month when a generator malfunctioned during testing, allowing the air pressure inside the generator to pop a steel plate off its mounts, mortally striking the ...
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Posted on Sep 6, 2010 By Personal Injury Attorney
A gas drilling rig worker was killed last month when he fell from a natural gas drilling rig, owned by Nomac Drilling Inc. of Towanda Township, PA, according to reports. The accident occurred while ...
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Posted on Sep 4, 2010 By Personal Injury Lawyer
A pair of CareFlite crew members were killed in early July when their helicopter experienced mechanical problems and crashed near Dallas, TX, reports say. The Bell helicopter apparently lost its rotor ...
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Posted on Aug 31, 2010 By Personal Injury Attorney
A worker at Cabot Gas died this week after being hit in the head with a pipe at a natural gas rig in Dimock, Wyoming last month. The worker, 41-year-old Gregory Walker, of Colorado, died from his ...
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Posted on Aug 28, 2010 By Accident Attorney
A 38-year-old dock worker died from carbon monoxide poisoning recently, as he was pressure-washing a freshwater tank on a fishing vessel, while five other dockworkers sustained exposures to carbon ...
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Posted on Aug 26, 2010 By Personal Injury lawyer
The employers of a dockworker's family, Virginia International Terminals Inc., has agreed to pay that family $500,000 to settle a lawsuit brought by the surviving family members of a port worker ...
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Posted on Aug 16, 2010 By Personal Injury Attorney
A crew member of a Qatargas time-chartered vessel died from injuries he sustained while boarding a service launch from the ship on which he had been working. The worker, who had just completed his ...
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Posted on Jul 20, 2010 By Injury Lawyer
An 18-year-old Lake Forest, Illinois man was killed and a teenage female companion was injured when they were struck by an Amtrak train in suburban Chicago, say reports. The pair were allegedly ...
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Posted on Jul 11, 2010 By Injury Lawyer
A 13-year-old central Illinois boy was struck and killed by a Canadian National Railway train last month. Kyle Tyler Vandeveer, of Charleston, was struck by the train as he was headed to his ...
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Posted on Jul 9, 2010 By Injury Attorney
A train accident on May 31 took the life of 22-year-old SBBC student Stanford Heath Allison Jr. According to reports, Allison was struck and killed by an Amtrak passenger train as it made its way into ...
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