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One worker has been killed and two injured in an explosion and fire at the KMCO chemical plant in Crosby, Texas Tuesday morning. The dead worker had been transported in critical condition to a Houston hospital, and the other two are said to be in critical condition at Memorial Hermann Hospital in Houston. The types of injuries suffered by the victims is unknown at this time. According to Bloomberg.com, KMCO “… provides specialty chemical manufacturing, and custom and toll chemicals…

An explosion occurred early this morning at a KMCO specialty chemical plant in Crosby, Texas. Authorities report that two people have been injured. One of the injured is stable while the other is currently in critical condition. Hazmat is currently on site and monitoring air quality. The cause of the blast is currently unknown but authorities have evacuated the immediate area as part of precautionary measures. The KMCO plant in Crosby handles multiple products from antifreeze to brake fluid. There…

As we have stated in other posts, we are concerned that “self-driving” (also known as “autonomous vehicle”) technology is not as sophisticated or as safe as some manufacturers would have you believe. Specifically, we believe that problems with object detection and object recognition are the “Achilles Heel” of autonomous vehicle technology. In today’s post, the automobile accident injury lawyer at The Doan Law Firm will review a recent, but largely unknown, study suggesting that “autonomous” or “self-driving” vehicle technology still…

Sadly, we must report that many of our veterans have developed significant hearing loss and that a factor in their hearing loss were defective earplugs that weredeliberately sold to the Defense Department by 3Mwith the full knowledge that they were defective! History of the Earplugs and Hearing Loss Hearing loss is the second most common cause of disability in the Veterans Administration system. Many of these cases are found in our older veterans and are related to the natural aging…

“Street racing” has been defined as “an unsanctioned and illegal form of auto racing that occurs on a public road.” These races were once held on relatively isolated stretches of rural roads but, and in part, the success of movies that glorify street racing such as The Fast and the Furious and the television series Street Outlaws has led to a virtual explosion of street racing in urban areas such as Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Milwaukee, Houston, and Tampa In…