Severe personal injury and even death may result from taking too much acetaminophen. Inadvertent acetaminophen overdose may severely damage the liver and can lead to liver failure, liver transplant and death. Acetaminophen is used over the counter as a pain and fever medication and is often an ingredient in cold…
A Brooklyn worker died in a car wash accident on Sunday. The accident investigators are still looking for the causes of the accident. A SUV had just come out of the automated rails and the worker was taking car of the detailing when suddenly the car and another vehicle crashed…
Little is known so far about the risk of personal injury for astronauts who are participating in long-duration and exploration space flight. The Institute of Medicine recently released the Review of NASA’s Evidence Reports on Human Health Risks: 2013 Letter Report , which is the first in a serie of…
A 16 month-old child wrongfully died and a 15 month-old child was severely injured after they became entangled in a very popular Ikea’s children’s wall-mounted lamp. There were 2.9 million lamps sold in the US, 1.1 million in Canada and 23 million worldwide. Consumers should stop using the defective lamp…
To prevent wrongful death and personal injury caused by defective or unsafe bedside sleepers a new federal mandatory standard to improve the safety of bedside sleepers was just approved by the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) A bedside sleeper is a bassinet that is attached to an adult bed for…
After 9 year old Cooper Stock was fatally struck by a cab driver in New York City on Friday Night, many in New York are wondering if cab drivers can kill with impunity as in most accidents the police are allegedly not thoroughly investigating criminal wrongdoing at the scene. According…
4 people were injured in a car accident that happened Sunday night at a Popeye restaurant in East Flatbush, Brooklyn, New York. The 62 year old driver of the SUV lost control of his car which crashed into the front window of the restaurant. The driver and the passenger as…
32 year old Nydja Herring died in a drunk driving car accident in NYC this weekend. The accident happened Saturday at 5.30 pm as the mother of the 2 year old twins had just stepped out to run errands for the toddlers at a store nearby. Nydja was crossing the…
After two pedestrians were killed in traffic accidents on the Upper West Side in NYC on Friday night, Scott Stringer said that “Upper West Side pedestrian deaths send a clear message: Time for studying the 96th St traffic corridor is over, NYC needs to take action to prevent fatalities. I…
Alexander Shear, 73, died in a bus accident in New York on Friday night. The accident happened on 96th street and Broadway on the Upper West Side of NYC. Alexander Shear who was famous in New York for his pop culture collection was hit and dragged by a Shafer tour…