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If you live and/or work in the city, chances are you’re doing a lot of walking. And with the price of gas nowadays, you’re probably doing extra walking. If so, you can probably relate to CBS’s...

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July was construction safety month, providing much-needed safety information for an industry with a consistently high accident rate, resulting in both injuries and deaths. But plenty of dangers...

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“The sky is falling! The sky is falling!” With all the hidden traps that technology sets, it’s easy to worry that the world will soon be crumbling all around us. And, as we have seen with...

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We all roll the dice when we step outside each day; safety hazards are everywhere. But some of us have better odds than others; it largely depends on the type of work that we perform. As fellow...

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The IRS wants to give you money; even they recognize that the current gas crunch is seriously pilfering of your paycheck. And I’m not even talking about stimulus checks. The IRS announced an...

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Teen Workers: How to Stay Safe this Summer! Remember what it was like to be a teenager? A false sense of invincibility, a dread of asking questions that might make you look dumb, and an...

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With $5 gas apparently on the horizon, we’re all looking for ways to cut down our consumption. So, for budgetary as well as eco-conscious concerns, many are filling up their bike tires and...

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Some say there are two seasons in Chicago: winter and construction. With construction season upon us, the safety forecast is bleak. The nature and number of projects going on in the Chicagoland...

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Prevention of On-the-Job Spinal Cord Injuries As the Discovery Channel’s Deadliest Catch brings the United States’ deadliest job (crab fishing) into family rooms around America, many people...

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Listen. To what, you’re probably asking; and that’s the problem. We are an overwhelmingly chatty society. And with technology, with Ipods or a Bluetooth in our ear and email at our fingertips, it’s...

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Pneumatic nail gun safety is something that Injury Board member attorneys Steve Lombardi, Brooks Schuelke, David Mittleman, and Jean Martin have recently been addressing. For those who have been hit...

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A Cook County, Illinois Appellate Court decided that the trial court did not abuse its discretion when it denied the City of Chicago's motion for new trial after a jury awarded $17.7 Million to a Romanucci & Blandin client who was severely injured when a police vehicle struck him from rear. There was sufficient evidence for jury to conclude that the officer, who testified that she entered...

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An Amtrak passenger train traveling from Grand Rapids struck the rear of a parked Norfolk Southern Freight train earlier this morning on Chicago's south side. As a result of the crash, some 45 passengers were taken to area hospitals, among whom six were seriously injured.According to media reports, there were 187 passengers on the train. The six passengers suffering from critical injuries...

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A truck accident in Wayne County, on Thursday afternoon left a man uninjured but shaken up.The man, of Mt. Erie, was driving a Kenworth tandem dump truck when the truck brakes failed on Pounds Hollow Road next to the intersection of Illinois 1, in Gallatin County.He told police he was able to gear down enough to avoid going through the T-intersection, but still needed to avoid traffic. His dump...

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A faulty maintenance operation and track inspection were both main factors in last year's Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) subway derailment that was responsible for injuring over 150 people, according to the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB).A report released today states, the NTSB also determined insufficient time was allowed for inspections and limited training of inspectors also...

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