Archive for June 2018

A heatstroke is caused by being exposed to extremely high temperatures to the point where your body is not able to dissipate the heat. Leaving children in an unattended car is a common cause of heatstrokes. It doesn’t have to be necessarily hot outside either.  A car In 60 degree weather can reach an inside…

In 2012, a woman, age 83, was shopping in Goodwill when she pushed a cart over a floor mat at one of the cash registers. The Mat turned up and buckled causing her to trip and fall over it. She sustained serious and permanent injuries due to the fall. The company, Cintas, owned the mats…

Fireworks can be a fun and beautiful way to celebrate during the summer months. However if you don’t take caution they can become extremely dangerous. According to the National Fire Protection Association , “In 2017, U.S. hospital emergency rooms treated an estimated 12,900 people for fireworks related injuries; 54% of those injuries were to the…

According to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention about ten people die everyday from unintentional drowning. In the summer day of 2005, Yoni Gottesman was one of those 10 to drown. He was only four years old and was attending his first day of summer camp. The incident was caught on surveillance video. Yoni can…