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• OSHA cites alabama contractor following fatality at worksite

  Tom Methvin | October 20, 2006 4:37 PM | 0 CommentsMontgomery, AL

  The U.S. Labor Department's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited Titan Electric following the investigation of an August 2005 fatal accident in Auburn, Alabama. The worker was killed when he fell 40 feet from a concrete pole while working at Duck Samford Park where he was adjusting electrical lights. OSHA's investigation reportedly determined that safety equipment was...

• A jury verdict in an alcohol-related motor vehicle accident

  Tom Methvin | October 20, 2006 3:48 PM | 0 CommentsMontgomery, AL

  Alabama has a law called the Dram Shop Act that makes it a civil wrong for a bar to sell liquor to a person who is visibly intoxicated. While a good number of other states have similar statutes, some don't. Mississippi happens to fall in the latter category. But, a Jones County circuit court jury has ordered Applebee's, a restaurant that served alcohol to a man who ran over two people, to pay...

• A Dangerous RV Tire - The Goodyear 159 - Has Caused Problems

  Tom Methvin | October 18, 2006 2:50 PM | 2 CommentsMontgomery, AL

  Beasley Allen Law Firm has handled numerous cases against tire manufacturers when their tires failed causing accidents and injuries. As you may know, one of the most serious types of failure of a steel belted radial tire is a de-tread and/or belt separation. Because of the stress concentrations and subsequent high internal temperatures at the edge of the belt, this area is particularly sensitive...

• The Risks Of Taking Fosamax Appear To Be Great

  Tom Methvin | October 17, 2006 2:06 PM | 0 CommentsMontgomery, AL

  Last month we wrote about the mounting problems associated with the popular osteoporosis drug Fosamax. Since that time it has become most apparent that the problems are widespread. As a result, the Fosamax litigation scene will be very active. Osteonecrosis of the jaw (ONJ), a disfiguring condition that leads to the breakdown of the jawbone and loss of teeth, is clearly a most serious matter....

• Employers must list injury and illness summaries

  Tom Methvin | October 13, 2006 4:36 PM | 0 CommentsMontgomery, AL

  Employers must now post a summary of the total number of job-related injuries and illnesses that occurred last year. The summary required to be filed must list the total number of job-related injuries and illnesses that occurred in 2005 and that were logged on the OSHA 300 form. Employment information about annual average number of employees and total hours worked during the calendar year is...

• Preventing falls of workers

  Tom Methvin | October 13, 2006 3:59 PM | 0 CommentsMontgomery, AL

  Beasley Allen Law Firm currently represents a man who worked for a company that installed communication satellites. Our client was contracted to install a communication satellite in a truck terminal in North Alabama. Our client and his co-worker had never installed a satellite dish on top of a structure, but instead had always installed the dishes on the side of the building. Because this...

• Truck driver charged in deadly crash

  Tom Methvin | October 13, 2006 3:58 PM | 0 CommentsMontgomery, AL

  A truck driver has been charged with homicide in a crash that killed five people and injured 29 others on a bus carrying high school band students home from a weekend competition. The man's tractor-trailer had swerved off an Interstate highway and jackknifed across the bus' path before dawn on October 16th. The charter bus slammed into the rig, killing the band's director, his wife, their...

• Recent court cases raise questions about trucking safety

  Tom Methvin | October 13, 2006 3:56 PM | 0 CommentsMontgomery, AL

  Over the past several years a "disturbing pattern of dangerous activity" by the nation's trucking industry has developed. We find that a good number of the fatalities resulting from trucking accidents involve driver fatigue. During 2004, 5,190 people were killed in truck crashes, an increase of 154 fatalities over 2003. Additionally, in 2004, the number of truckers killed in crashes increased...

• Interstate crash case settled

  Tom Methvin | October 13, 2006 3:54 PM | 0 CommentsMontgomery, AL

  Our firm, Beasley Allen, has negotiated a settlement in a wrongful death arising out of an interstate highway crash that occurred in Baldwin County, Alabama. We representated the families of two ladies who were state employees traveling to an educational seminar in Mobile. While stopped in traffic due to a prior accident along with a number of cars, an 18-wheeler plowed into their car at a...

• Lack of safety measures in the trucking industry can cost lives

  Tom Methvin | October 13, 2006 3:53 PM | 0 CommentsMontgomery, AL

  Although tractor-trailers make up only a small percentage of the total vehicles on the road today, they cause a majority of fatalities. According to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, tractor-trailers have a substantially higher fatal crash rate per mile than passenger vehicles. This is very alarming, considering that most travel by tractor-trailers occurs on our interstates. Records...