In a terrible amusement rideaccident earlier this month, three young girls fell from a Ferris wheel at the Greene County Fair in Tennessee. According to police, the incident was caused by a mechanical problem. The company that operated the Ferris Wheel, Family Attractions Amusement, is continuing to operate rides in Middle Tennessee. As Dickson…
A Missouri man is dead, and two other people were taken to hospitals after a fatalmultiple-vehicle crash in east Kansas City. Kansas City Police reports the accident happened late Tuesday evening at 63rd Street and Prospect Avenue. Police say a man that was shot with a gun was trying to drive himself to the…
A St. Louis roofer was severely burned during a job-siteaccident when he fell into a kettle filled with hot tar. The 66-year-old man was repairing a roof in University City when the accident occurred. According to the victim’s wife, her husband and son were finishing roofing work when he fell off the roof and…
Elevated levels of lead have been found coming from some faucets and fountains in 32 buildings in theSt. Louis Public Schools District. Testing was conducted at all 72 school buildings and 797 water sources were examined. The test revealed 45 sources are exceeding the EPA’s guideline of 20 parts per billion of lead. An…
A Tennessee woman appeared in court on Monday for charges in a deadlyhit-and-run in Smyrna. The 25-year-old woman is charged with leaving the scene of a deadly auto accident. On Monday, the Smyrna judge bound the case over to the grand jury after the preliminary hearing. Traffic investigators with the Smyrna Police Department and…
According to a recent study, trampoline parkinjuries are on the rise across the country. Another injury at a St. Louis area trampoline park only highlighting these dangers of trampolines. According to researchers, data collected from emergency room visits reveals trampoline type accidents have increased from 600 in 2010 to 7,000 in 2014. The study…
A car was crushed when a piece of concrete fell from a building in downtownSt. Louis on Monday. The vehicle was damaged as it set out front of a building in the 500 block of Olive Street. The red Ford sedan was parked outside a vacant building when suddenly concrete fell from the building…
Several St. Charles motorists ended up with minorproperty damage when they drove down a yellow painted street this week. According to the City of St. Charles, the street was turned yellow after a contractor re-painted street stripes right before it rained. The wet yellow paint was smeared all along the entire stretch of street….
An increase of on thejob fatalities in Tennessee last month has the head of the Tennessee Occupational Safety and Health Administration very alarmed. The TOSHA Administrator told a local new station in Tennessee that four of the ten deaths in July were on construction sites. The head of TOSHA claims that all of the…
A Nashvilleschool bus driver has been suspended after a strange and potentially dangerous school bus incident this week. Davidson County school officials are investigating rumors of wrongdoing on the school bus after the driver was an hour late to the school on Tuesday. Officials claim some students were stuck on a bus ride that…