Everyone knows - or should know - that smoking cigarettes near flammable materials (like oil storage tanks) might cause an explosion. That appears to be exactly what happened to two Texas oil and gas workers on Tuesday, and it didn't take long for readers to comment...
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Month: January 2013
Texas ranks low on highway safety laws
According to the Houston Chronicle, Texas is one of the worst states for highway safety laws. For anyone who's driven recently in South Texas, especially around the 18-wheelers and large commercial trucks from the Eagle Ford Shale, you already might've guessed that...
Obese drivers, passengers more likely to be killed in auto accidents
We've written about the problem of obesity and the health conditions that stem from it (sleep apnea). Sleep apnea causes disruptions in sleep and can lead to drowsiness during the day. This is an obvious problem for people who drive commercial trucks for a living....
Cat bites are ‘nothing to trivialize’
It's not just aggressive dogs you've got to worry about. In fact, you might have more to worry about if you're bitten by a cat than if you're bitten by a dog. As Marie Joyce writes for the Washington Post, a cat named Sammy put her in the hospital for four whole days....
Texting While Trucking: Don’t ‘Go Down Gambling’
Despite bans on texting while driving, motor vehicle accidents caused by distracted driving continue to climb, according to a new study. The stakes are especially high when semi trucks drivers text while driving their big rigs. According to CBS News, the research by...
‘Anti-government mood’ to blame, in part, for lack of new road-safety laws
Larry Copeland, reporting for USA Today, cites the "anti-government mood" in many states when writing about how fewer and fewer state lawmakers are passing road-safety laws against such behavior as texting while driving, drunk driving and not wearing a seat belt....
Federal agency to issue rule requiring seat belts on buses
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is about to put an end to a debate that has gone on since 1977 - whether or not motor coaches (i.e. commercial buses) ought to have seat belts on them. As anyone who has ever been a passenger on a bus knows,...
Isolated, chained dogs may be more likely to bite
Dogs kept outside most of the time, day or night, chained up in the yard, are "bored" and "frustrated," according to a nonprofit organization that sponsors a campaign called Valentines-from-24/7-Outside-Dogs. And boredom and frustration is exactly the thing that can...