Accidental Fatalities

NEW YORK -- Faruqi & Faruqi, LLP, a leading national securities law firm, is investigating potential securities fraud at Hecla Mining Co. ("Hecla" or the "Company") (NYSE: HL). Request more information now by...

Associated Press TUCSON, Ariz. - An Arizona Board of Transportation member is pushing for new solutions to dust storms that have triggered fatal accidents in recent years along the Interstate 10 corridor between...

Byline: Geoff Grammer Deborah Aaron mouthed the words "I love you" to her friends and family as she was escorted in shackles into a downtown Santa Fe courtroom Tuesday. The 56-year-old Santa Fe...

Byline: The New Mexican Woman killed in White Rock crash An 84-year-old Los Alamos woman was killed Saturday evening when an apparent medical problem caused her to lose control of her car and...

Margaret Mahoney, president of the Commonwealth Fund from 1980 to 1995, died Dec. 22. She was 87. Mahoney, who previously was a senior executive for the Robert Woods Johnson Foundation, was called "a...

To celebrate Workforce Management's 90th anniversary, we're running a series of articles looking at important workforce-related issues with a now-and-then theme. The first installment deals with workplace safety in the 1920s and today....

DOT's new multiyear advertising campaign, Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over, aims to get drunk drivers off the road, particularly from midnight to 3 a.m. According to research from DOT's National Highway Traffic...

HEADNOTE Safety in air racing depends on the airplane as well as the pilot After a highly modified World War II P-51 Mustang crashed into spectators at die National Championship Air Races at...

ALPHA NATURAL Resources Inc. agreed to pay nearly $210 million in penalties as part of a settlement to resolve a range of civil and criminal penalties linked to the explosion at the Upper...

HEADNOTE Objectives This study aims to estimate the life expectancies and loss-of-life expectancies of workers with permanent occupational disabilities of the upper and lower limbs in Taiwan. Methods We collected all cases of...

An explosion at Bartlett Grain Company, L. P. in Atchison, KS on Oct. 29 killed six men. Three Bartlett employees were confirmed dead at the scene, according to the city of Atchison, and...

New rules allow for increased flight time and fail to address fatigue throughout the industry CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- The US Airline Pilots Association (USAPA), representing the pilots of US Airways, expresses concerns over...

For residents and businesses in the west metro community of Cologne, there’s little question that something needs to be done about the intersection where Highway 212, Highway 284 and County Road 53 converge....

As experts continued their investigation into the cause of a freak elevator accident that killed a Madison Avenue office worker last week, the city's Buildings Department was reassuring a nervous workforce of its...

The antenna detects cell phone wave frequencies emitted from the driver seat, verbally warns the user to terminate the call or text and sends real-time alerts to a web portal or directly to...

Motor carriers spent all of 2011 waiting for the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration to announce its latest hours-of-service rule. The proposed rule, announced a year ago, was not well received by motor...

Kolskaya oilrig sank at depth of 1,442 meters The oilrig Kolskaya, which sank in the Sea of Okhotsk on Sunday, is lying on the sea bottom at the depth of 1,442 meters, Leonid...

U.S. drivers couldn't send text messages or use mobile phones - even with headsets or portable speakers - under U.S. National Transportation Safety Board recommendations aimed at preventing distracted-driving crashes. "Too many people...

COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho -- Hecla Mining Company ("Hecla") (NYSE:HL) is reporting that the rock burst that injured seven miners Wednesday night at the Lucky Friday mine near Mullan, Idaho, is unrelated to two...