3 adults were seriously injured in an accident between an ambulance and a school bus that happened yesterday night in Brooklyn, New York. The 16 children who were in the bus suffered only minor injuries. The ambulance was speeding down Fort Hamilton Parkway and the bus was crossing on 51st…
Thankfully nobody suffered personal injury in New York after big chunks of ice fell from the Freedom Tower and other buildings from the World Trade Center. Ice patches have been forming on the the sloped roof of the freedom Tower as well as the rounded corner areas. Because the building…
69,000 work injury and illness claims were filled by New York public employees in 2012. That’s a rate of 7 cases per 100 full-time workers. Nationally, the rate was 5.6 and 2.5 in New York private industry. Read more here
To help combat the epidemic of pedestrians who die or suffer serious personal injury in New York, Gale Brewer, the Borough President, submitted a list of the NYC 57 most dangerous crossings. This list include 96th street and Broadway where two pedestrians recently died as well as 17 other locations…
Every year 850,000 people are injured by needles or other sharp medical devices that have not been discarded properly. Sharps is the medical term for any device with a sharp point that can puncture or cut the skin for example, needles, syringes, lancets, auto injectors, infusion sets or connection needles.…
Last Friday afternoon 3 pedestrians were seriously injured in a car accident on the Upper East Side. A taxi driver lost control of his vehicle, jumped the curb and plowed into a group of pedestrians on East 86th Street and Third Ave. (see New York Post) This accident should…
When a pedestrian is hit by a car he or she will usually suffer severe personal injury. In most accidents, the car bumper hits the pedestrian’s pelvis and legs shattering his or her bones explains Dr. Kaushal Shah, the residency director of emergency medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine…
The driver of a cement truck was killed and four people suffered personal injury in an accident that happened in the Bronx on Monday. The truck driver was exiting the Major Deegan Expressway when he lost the control of his vehicle. According to witnesses the truck struck two cars before…
Every year in NYC more than 45,000 seniors suffer personal injury that requires medical treatment after a fall. Around 28,000 of them visit the Emergency Room, 17,000 are hospitalized and 300 die from their injuries. As the New York aging population continues to grow so do the number of personal…
Defective heaters can cause serious personal injury to consumers and should not be used. If you are using a portable heater please make sure that it has been tested under the latest safety standards and that it is not the subject of a recall. Recently Walmart and Sears recalled the…