A new report says workplace accident deaths in Michigan have dropped significantly in the past two years. Michigan State University reported that 120 workers died on the job in Michigan in 2007, down from 157 in 2006. The report says …
As more motorists complain about traffic tickets in their mailboxes, Louisiana lawmakers are considering ways to regulate or prohibit automated cameras that snap photos of moving violations. Baton Rouge, New Orleans and other local governments have the traffic cameras designed …
Search and rescue crews went door to door to check on residents in the northern part of Enid, Okla., late Saturday after an apparent tornado touched down, authorities said. There were no reports of serious injuries with the storm, which …
The 98-year-old American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE) this week congratulated reporter Alexandra Berzon and the Las Vegas Sun for not only winning the Pulitzer Prize award for public service reporting but also for raising awareness of the importance of …
President Barack Obama’s nominee to lead the nation’s disaster response agency said he will hold the Federal Emergency Management Agency to a much higher standard than it demonstrated in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. In testimony prepared for his confirmation …
As part of the largest, most ambitious attempt ever launched to figure out how tornadoes form and how to predict them more accurately, engineers from the University of Massachusetts in Amherst this week are readying two special mobile Doppler radar …
A Maine woman has won a $1.9 million settlement six years after her husband was killed while operating a forklift at the Prime Tanning plant. Forty-eight-year-old Thomas Brown was killed when he was knocked off the forklift and pinned between …
Parts of three states were shaken on April 24 by a minor earthquake centered in southern Ohio. The U.S. Geological Survey reports the 3.4 magnitude quake occurred around 9:45 a.m. Michael Hansen, coordinator of the Ohio Seismic Network, says the …
Airplane collisions with birds have more than doubled at 13 major U.S. airports since 2000, and New York’s Kennedy airport and Sacramento International report the most incidents with serious damage, according to Federal Aviation Administration data released for the first …
They flock from other states and climes to the coast known as the Grand Strand, first as tourists, and later as residents, captivated by ocean views, rolling green fairways and the relaxed lifestyle. Most knew that an occasional hurricane was …