After 4 children died and 360 suffered injury in 1200 strollers incidents that occurred from 2008 through 2012, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission recently proposed a federal safety standard for strollers. The report of incidents would scare any mother or caregiver. In one of the fatal accidents the head…
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Failure to diagnose Breast cancer: Women should be informed that Digital direct radiography (DR) is much more effective than Computed radiography (CR) at detecting breast cancer
There is a higher rate of failure to diagnose breast cancer among women who are screened using computed radiography compared to women who are screened using digital direct radiography according to a new study lead by Anna M. Chiarelli, Ph.D., senior scientist in Prevention and Cancer Control at Cancer Care…
New York Bicycle Accident Prevention: New rules for commercial bicyclists
In New York, bicycle accidents are too frequent among delivery employees and the resulting injuries are often catastrophic or even fatal. To protect delivery cyclists from severe accidents, The City of New York will soon be enforcing new rules for commercial bicycling. Commercial bicyclists will be required to take a…
Wrongful Death – Increase of fatal injuries among temporary workers during first days of work
Temporary workers have a high risk of suffering fatal injury on their first days of work because they are untrained and not aware of hazards specific to the workplace. Often employers failed to provide safety training to temporary workers or, if some instruction was given, it inadequately addressed the hazard,…
Medical Malpractice – More complications after minimal invasive procedure to remove kidney stones
Percutaneous nephrolithotomy, or PCNL, is a minimally invasive urological surgery during which a surgeon removes medium to large kidney stones through a small incision in the back using a hollow scope. The use of PCNL is increasing especially among women and complications are on the rise particularly blood infections. Patients…
Medical Malpractice – Hospital Negligence: Children treated in hospitals with a poor patient to nurse staffing ratio have a higher risk to be readmitted within 15 to 30 days
Nurse staffing directly impacts the safety of children in pediatric hospitals. According to a study, led by Dr. Tubbs-Cooley at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, children treated in hospitals with staffing ratios of 1 : 4 or less were significantly less likely to be readmitted within 15–30 days. Each one patient increase in…
Car Accident Injury Prevention: National Seat Belt Campaign “Click it or Ticket” to start on May 20
In 2011, 52% of passengers who were killed in car crashes were not wearing a seat belt at the time of the accident. This rate goes up to 62 % for motor vehicle crashes happening overnight compared to 43% during day time. While looking at gender and age, 66% of…
Construction Accidents: OSHA to apply cranes and derricks safety standard requirements to demolition and underground construction sites
In order to prevent and reduce hoisting equipment related accidents in demolition sites and underground construction sites, OSHA is extending the application of the requirements of the August 2010 cranes and derricks in construction standard to all construction sectors. Starting May 13 2013, the separate standard applying to demolition and…
Firefighter injury and Worker injury prevention: change in hospital data collection could make a difference
While working on the Firefighter Injury Research and Safety Trend FEMA project, Workplace safety researchers from Drexel University School of Public Health found out that the addition of industry and occupation data information in the data collected by hospitals would benefit not only firefighters but also every woker in America.…
Construction Accidents: Power-line installers, Iron Workers and Roofers have the highest risk of fatal accidents among construction workers
A new version of the Construction Chart Book: The U.S. Construction Industry and its workers was recently released by the Center for Construction Research and Training. Here are some of the most interesting findings and graphs related to Fatal and Nonfatal Injuries: – Electrical Power-Line installers are the most at…