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Savar Garment Factory Building Collapse Kills over 300, Injures 2000

The Rana Plaza Building, an 8-story factory complex, collapsed on Wednesday. Our building collapse attorneys emphasize that the deadly collapse in Savar occurred a day after dangerous cracks had appeared in the building walls. Industrial police on Tuesday had ordered the factory evacuated and shut until engineers and inspectors from the University could come and […]

On the Deadly Triangle Shirtwaist Garment Factory Fire in New York City

Continued from Part 2. The final toll from the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire was set at 146 dead and 71 injured. The final toll in the Savar Rana Plaza Building collapse is not yet available, but our building collapse attorneys point out that already the toll is over 300 dead and 2000 injured. And many […]

Improved Working Conditions needed in Bangladesh Garment Factories

Continued from Part 3. Conditions have improved for some American workers, though we see workers’ rights and working conditions eroding once again. The garment factories of Bangladesh however have yet to see any of the improvements in workers’ conditions that eventually occurred in America after the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire. News accounts of the Savar […]

Texas Truck Driver Fatigue and the Deadly Risk of a Fatal Crash

Trucks are heavy vehicles with immense power and momentum. Truck drivers and even ordinary passenger car drivers tend to experience a phenomenon sometimes called “highway hypnosis” after long hours behind the wheel. Drivers will fall into a trance-like state from their long periods of relative immobility and lack of real stimuli on long drives. It’s […]

Making a Financial Recovery after Serious Texas Truck Accident Injury

Contact the Alvin, TX Truck Accident Lawyers at Denena Points, PC if a Big Rig has Harmed You or Your Loved One Continued from Part 1. At Denena Points, PC, we believe that needlessly injured Texas truck accident victims deserve strong advocacy and protection of their rights against the big trucking companies and powerful […]

What can you do after a Galveston drunk driver injures you in a wreck?

You’ve probably heard that everything’s bigger in Texas. That’s true even of the problems. For instance, Texas leads the nation in the number of drunk driving wrecks. And drunk drivers leave their victims with Texas-sized costs after the wrecks they cause. Drunk drivers usually cause more damage than sober drivers. This is because drunk drivers […]

TX Fertilizer Plant Explosion Reveals Deadly Gap in Safety Regulations

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is supposed to oversee facilities containing large amounts of ammonium nitrate, the fertilizer that exploded in West, Texas on Wednesday. The same hazardous substance was also responsible for the deadly blasts that leveled Texas City in 1947 and the Federal Building in Oklahoma City in 1995. Our Pearland, Texas […]

6 Key Numbers on U.S. Fatal and Serious Injury Motorcycle Crash Rates

After a low in 1997, motorcycle accident fatality and serious injury rates have been increasing sharply. The Galveston motorcycle accident lawyers at Denena Points, PC note that motorcycle ridership has increased slightly over the past couple of decades, but motorcycles still represent less than 5% of registered vehicles on U.S. roads. Reports from 2012 and […]

Deadly Rollover Wrecks account for One Third of Fatal Crashes in U.S.

U.S. NHTSA data reveals that while only about 10% of all accidents involve rollovers, approximately 33%, or one third, of fatal crashes in the United States involve rollover wrecks and/or occupant ejection from vehicles. Rollover accidents tend to cause vehicle ejection more frequently than other types of crashes. And our I-10 rollover accident attorneys point […]