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99 people are unaccounted for 12 hours after a massive Miami condo building collapse that occurred during the early hours of Thursday morning. Within a short time following the yet-to-be-explained collapse of more than half of the 12-story residential structure in the Surfside community, about a dozen people were rushed to area hospitals where one person was pronounced dead. The Mayor of Surfside, Charles Burkett, described the deadly disaster as “the building is literally pancaked.” By that he means that…

New homes constructed along the Gulf coast as well as on the Atlantic shores of Florida, the Carolinas, and elsewhere, are being built “taller” to provide more resilient protection against storm surge. As a consequence, a significantly increasing number of people are having residential elevators installed in their homes. There is a noticeable downside to the marked increase in residential elevator installations. Unlike their commercial counterparts, residential elevators are subject to little or no regulation. As a consequence, there is…

In what is being described as a “freak” construction accident, a worker was trapped in a cement truck bucket on Wednesday, June 16, 2016. The worker suffered life-threatening injuries and was rushed to a nearby hospital. The construction accident occurred in Lakewood Township, New Jersey. The worker suffered severe injuries to his legs and feet. As of the day following the accident, not specific information is yet available as to how the unusual incident occurred in the first instance. An…

Each and every day, people across the United States sustain injuries – sometimes serious ones – as a result of accidents in locations that include stores, other types of businesses, schools, churches, governmental offices and other locations. The most commonplace types of injuries at public locations such as those noted here occur as the result of slip and fall accidents. Unfortunately, hundreds of people suffer injuries each month as a result of injuries sustained in locations like businesses as a…

People are getting on the road in their cars by the millions for vacation travel as summer begins. Over 250,000 people are killed in automobile accidents in the United States annually. Hundreds of thousands of other individuals are injured in car accidents, oftentimes seriously so. If you’re involved in an automobile accident, there are seven important steps that you need to take in the aftermath of a car collision. These are: Ensure immediate medical needs are addressed Contact the police…