Archive for March 2018
Bill Requiring Children to Wear Seatbelts Passes Oklahoma House
As spring starts in earnest and more families take to the highways for vacations and road trips, the risk of car accidents goes up. You may not be aware that, currently in Oklahoma, children between the ages of eight and 13 can ride in the backs of vehicles without having to wear a seatbelt. A…
Read MoreTruck Drivers Scamming Hours of Service Safety Rules
When truck drivers are exhausted, yet continue to drive an 80,000-lb. machine along highways, everyone is put at risk – even the truckers themselves. The mission of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) is to oversee the safety of our highways by governing commercial vehicles like trucks that transport good and busses that transport…
Read MoreThe Dangers of Oil and Gas Extraction: Avoiding Falls
Every workplace carries with it some degree of risk of injury for workers, but some industries, such as oil and gas extraction, are more dangerous than others. PBS News reports that, on average, one oil field worker dies about very six weeks on the job in the Bakken fields, which tend to get a lot…
Read MoreStruck-By Injuries in the Construction Industry See a Staggering 35% Increase Since 2010
Struck-by injuries are one of the most common injuries for construction workers. Throughout the United States at roughly 252,000 constructions sites, nearly 6.5 million people work on an average day. The fatal injury rate for the construction industry is one of the highest of all industries, according to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)…
Read MoreOpioid-Related Car Crashes See a Seven-fold Increase
A CBS News story reports that prescriptions for OxyContin (oxycodone), Vicoprofen (hydrocodone) and morphine have quadrupled from 76 million in 1991 to nearly 300 million in 2014. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports that opioids killed more than 33,000 people in 2015, which is more than any year on record. One of…
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