This is from safetyweek2014.com : “Every year, more than 80,000 workers suffer an injury on construction job sites across the U.S. Any one incident is one too many. Life is too precious to not make safety the number one focus in the U.S. construction industry.”…
Apparently “Mr. Happy” can give people some “Phantom Wicked Dreams” – or wicked damage to their bodies. Those are a couple of the names of “synthetic cannabinoids” – manufactured drugs that mimic the effects of marijuana. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention this year…
GREENSBORO, NC – According to the last Census, North Carolina was the 6th fastest growing state in the nation. And according to safewise, a website that rates home security systems, that’s no surprise. Safewise chalks up the growth in the Tar Heel State to an…
Fact: Compared to a car, motorcycles are small. Therefore, they are harder to see. Most vehicles have blind spots. In the case of watching for motorcycles, even a small blind spot becomes huge. Drivers of cars and trucks need to be aware of that –…
HIGH POINT, N.C. – I love that song “Happy.” Don’t you? It just makes you feel so good. On Thursday morning, 8:33 a.m. to be exact, woman was posting just that sentiment to Facebook while she was driving. At 8:34 she was dead. The irony…
Some of the results are back. They’re really bad. Last week I wrote about the Department of Public Instruction’s program of tracking school bus passing violations. One day, each year, bus drivers across North Carolina count the number of vehicles that pass them with the…
How many cars in North Carolina pass a stopped school bus in a day? On Wednesday bus drivers were counting. And you can count on it that the number will be shocking. At the end of 2012 and the beginning of 2013, I wrote about…
No one’s more aware of March Madness than those of us here in basketball-crazy North Carolina. It’s been even madder with the storms that have relentlessly slammed us as winter has seemed to be winding up when it should be winding down. But speaking of…
Ocean Isle Beach, NC– 21 injured after deck collapsed at Ocean Isle Beach(OIB), raising concerns about building codes. Twenty-one people were taken to various hospitals after the second-story deck of the condominium they were in collapsed onto a concrete patio below. Victims were treated for…
According to police, Mitchell Mclean, the chief district court judge for Wilkes, Ashe, Alleghany and Yadkin counties, died on Wednesday trying to save a woman who was caught up in a rip tide at Sunset Beach. Mclean, 54, was a law school…
Memorial Day weekend, the traditional start of the Summer season, ended in devastating tragedy for an Oak Ridge, NC family on Saturday, when a boating accident on High Rock Lake in Davidson…
What’s the worst thing a teenager (or anyone) can do while driving? Drink, of course. Right? Maybe not – according to one analysis of a survey by the Centers for Disease…