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As a general rule, members of the general public pay little attention to alterations in the composition of fuel oils being stored at Houston refineries and elsewhere across Texas and around the United States. Understanding this reasonably understandable preference of not focusing on what many would call the minutia of the petroleum industry, the public-at-large undoubtedly generally is unaware of an alternation in the composition of Number Six Fuel Oil. The public and even much of the petroleum industry is…

A construction worker plummeted over three stories at an Amazon building site in Kingston, Massachusetts. Minimal details are available about the Amazon construction accident that occurred last week. Information that is known about the serious incident includes: The worker evidently fell through an open space intended for a skylight The worker fell over 30 feet The man was transported by medical helicopter to a major trauma center in Boston Although the worker’s injuries are known to be severe, no specifics…

Eight workers were injured last week in a catastrophic Colorado steel mill explosion in Pueblo. Three of those individuals remain in critical condition with no clear prognosis yet in site. An alarming additional fact has now been made known about the Colorado steel mill explosion. EVRAZ Rocky Mountain Steel, the owner of the plant where the massive blast occurred, has previously been cited by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, OSHA, for putting its workers at risk of an explosion…

Cases involving abuse and neglect at behavioral health facilities are alarmingly widespread in their rate of occurrence and appalling in their circumstances. While nursing home abuse and neglect does garner media and public attention with some regularity, far less attention is paid to the horrors that do occur behind the doors of behavioral health facilities. A detailed report on behavioral health facility abuse and neglect was presented to the West Virginia Legislature in May 2021. While the report to the…

A massive fire of yet to be determined causes completely destroyed the Brentwood Oaks Apartments in the Nippers Corner district of Nashville, Tennessee. The fire was so huge it could be seen from a considerable distance. A large plume of smoke dominated the skyline during and for a period following the blaze. A total of 18 individual apartments were destroyed in the Nashville fire. A yet to be determined number of residents have been impacted by the fire. No fatalities…