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• Unions say electrical hazards high for workers

  Staff Writer | January 18, 2007 1:42 PM | 0 CommentsLincoln, NE

  UNI global union reports that there has been an recent increase in electrocution deaths among technicians at American companies, and many union leaders are pushing for employers to offer greater protection against these worksite injuries and deaths.CWA and the IBEW have met with Verizon, AT&T and others to discuss and encourage positive changes in training, education, equipment and other areas....

• ASSE to discuss hexavalent chromium standard

  Staff Writer | January 18, 2007 1:22 PM | 0 CommentsLincoln, NE

  A report from Des Plaines, Illinois, says that The American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE) will host a discussion of the U.S. Occupational Safety and Healthy Administration (OSHA) Hexavalent Chromium Standard this month. OSHA created the standard to improve the safety, health and environmental profession. Hexavalent chromium (CR(VI)) exposure can be detrimental to workers' health in a...

• Four injured in December I-80 accident

  Staff Writer | January 15, 2007 1:24 PM | 0 CommentsLincoln, NE

  A motor vehicle accident in Omaha injured four people, including a Nebraska State Trooper, last month.The trooper was investigating a one-car accident on I-80. Both the driver of the car involved in the accident and the trooper were in the patrol car on the shoulder of the Interstate when another car rear-ended them. The two people in the other car, along withe the trooper and driver of the...

• Fire Truck in Accident while Responding to Crash

  Christina Cole | January 13, 2007 4:02 PM | 0 CommentsLincoln, NE

  One person is in the hospital after a car and a fire truck crash. The accident happened on Sunday morning at about 8:00 on the Belt parkway at Sunrise Highway. Firefighters were responding to a car accident when another car crashed into their truck.One person in the car was taken to the hospital and no one on the truck was injured.

• Kids II Inc. Teethers Recalled

  Christina Cole | January 06, 2007 3:38 PM | 0 CommentsLincoln, NE

  Kids II Inc. has recalled 375,000 Bright Starts Star Teether Beads and Bright Starts Teether Beads. The flexible plastic rings that hold the teether beads in place can break or crack which can cause the beads to detach, posing a choking hazard to babies and toddlers. Kids II Inc. has received 24 reports of the plastic rings breaking or cracking and the beads detaching from the ring, but no...

• Hero dies in Christmas Eve car accident

  Staff Writer | January 02, 2007 3:08 PM | 0 CommentsLincoln, NE

  A touching story from Omaha's KETV 7 covers the story of a man who saved a baby from drowning in a bathtub less than two weeks before his own death in a motor vehicle accident on Christmas Eve.The man performed CPR on a 10-month-old who had stopped breathing after going underwater in a bathtub where the mother had left the room. He performed CPR on the baby and saved his life, according to...

• State trooper's family in worker's comp court battle

  Staff Writer | December 27, 2006 9:56 AM | 0 CommentsLincoln, NE

  The family of a state trooper who committed suicide after the Norfolk Bank shootings in 2002 is nearing a heated court battle over worker's comp claims.A report from ktiv.com News Channel 4 details the story:Zach committed suicide the day after five people were shot to death inside a Norfolk bank in September 2002.He'd pulled over one of the bank shooters, Erick Vela, the week before the...

• Nebraska-bound car involved in tragic accident

  Staff Writer | December 21, 2006 12:15 PM | 0 CommentsLincoln, NE

  Another tragic motor vehicle accident happened Tuesday when a woman exiting her car was hit by a semi-trailer and killed. The car was heading from Mississippi to Nebraska, a report from the Kansas City Star saidApparently the driver of the car lost control and hit a guardrail twice, causing the airbags to deploy as she rounded a curve. As she exited her vehicle, an 18-wheeler traveling in the...

• Heart attack victim loses suit over Vioxx

  Dan Friedman | December 15, 2006 4:39 PM | 0 CommentsLincoln, NE

  A federal jury has rejected a Tennessee man's claim against Merck, the manufacturer of Vioxx. Merck has consistently maintained that they are going to defend each lawsuit individually. One unique factor in this case was that the plaintiff had used illegal drugs and had written bad checks, thus putting his credibility on the line. http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1166004319457

• Driver dies in tragic truck accident

  Staff Writer | December 14, 2006 10:11 AM | 1 CommentLincoln, NE

  A truck driver on Nebraska Highway 8 died in a tragic motor vehicle accident last Thursday about a half mile east of Odell, a report from The Beatrice Daily Sun said. The cause of the accident was apparently a deer, which collided with the semi truck, hitting the upper portion of the hood and crashing through the windshield actually striking the driver. The driver swerved and overturned the...