| Jan 23 |
Archive for the 'child safety' CategoryTRAFFIC NEWS: 5 STUDENTS IN ALDINE SCHOOL BUS CRASH ON I-45 NFive Aldine ISD students were in a school bus crash Monday morning on the North Freeway, and several had what were believed to be minor injuries.
The students’ bus was traveling south on I-45 North when the accident occurred about 9 a.m. The bus and another vehicle collided near the Gulf Bank exit. Among the students was a child who attended Reece Early Childhood Pre-Kindergarten and four children who attended Bethune and Anderson elementary schools. One student was taken to school, but as a precaution, the other four were taken to Texas Children’s Hospital. No other details were immediately available. Statistically, school buses are a relatively safe means of transportation. However, about two dozen students die each year in school bus accidents in the United States, and many more are injured. |
| Oct 31 |
Archive for the 'child safety' CategoryTRAFFIC NEWS: Boy hit by car hospitalizedOctober 31, 2011: A 12-year old Houston boy was hit by a car late Sunday afternoon as he rode through an intersection in the New Territory area of Fort Bend. The driver of the car that struck the young victim was not charged in the incident. A spokesman for the Department of Public Safety said the boy rode through a red light at the intersection of Sandhill and Highway 99 when he was hit by a 2004 Lincoln sedan. The boy was taken to Memorial Hermann Hospital.
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| Jul 28 |
Archive for the 'child safety' CategoryTake care when renting car seats!It’s no secret that companies use cost cutting measures to increase revenue, but Debbie Dubrow, a frequent blogger and mother of three, discovered that sometimes these measures go too far. She blogged that she and her husband arrived at the Advantage Rent-A-Car branch in San Diego to pick up a rental car and some car seats, but when they were shown what was available, they made a horrifying discovery: Each seat was either dirty or dilapidated. Dubrow and her husband tried to install two of the least damaged car seats in the car they had rented. One seat’s straps did not function correctly, and the other lacked a safety clip designed to protect the child’s chest. They finally found a functional, albeit filthy, car seat and left the rental agency. (more…) |
| Jul 13 |
Archive for the 'child safety' CategoryDrug company pays millions to victimsGlaxoSmithKline (GSK) is paying a $41 million fine for selling contaminated drugs all over the United States. A GSK plant in Puerto Rico made the drugs between 2001 and 2004. They include the anti–nausea drug Kytril, the antibiotic ointment Bactroban, the anti-depressant Paxil CR and the diabetes drug Avandamet. The plant where the contaminated drugs were made was closed in 2009. In some cases, pills of different strengths were put in the same bottle. In others, pills of different types were packaged together. And in some cases, the medications were simply contaminated. (more…) |
| Dec 29 |
Archive for the 'child safety' CategoryRecalled Britax car seat chokes, cuts kids
That’s the reason the United States Consumer Product Safety Commission recalled 23,000 Britax car seats made between April 2009 and May 2010 in early November. The CPSC issued the recall due to a defective clip in the car seat’s chest harness. The federal agency calls the clip a serious potential hazard. It can break easily and cut an infant. The CPSC also calls the clip a choking hazard because it is so small. The CPSC has received four reports of breaking clips – three involving lacerations and scratches and one report of an infant putting the clip in its mouth. |
Car accidents are the leading killer in the United States of kids 14 and under. Car seats can reduce those fatalities by a 71 percent for infants and 54 percent for children between the ages of one and four, according to Safe Kids USA. But if car seats are not properly installed or they are poorly made, they put kids in danger.| Dec 29 |
Archive for the 'child safety' CategoryDangerous acne treatment easily available on Internet
All this, despite a Food and Drug Administration website that warns against buying Accutane over the Internet because of the drug’s 15 serious side effects, including two life-long diseases of the gut with the potential to kill those who develop them after taking it. |
A quick google search of the Internet turns up lots of websites selling Accutane in spite of federal warnings about the powerful drug. One site, with the unforgettable web address of “cheap pills,” has a brief two-line description of the acne treatment drug, followed by a lengthy price sheet offering Accutane pills in varying amounts with no reference to the drug’s side effects.| Oct 19 |
Archive for the 'child safety' CategorySpa toys recalled over defective lids’ explosion hazard to child safety
The recall involves 516,000 Spa Factory Aromatherapy Fountain and Bath Benefits Kits which have improperly unventilated lids for jars of Bath Fizzies or Bath Bombs/Balls. When lacking proper vent holes, those lids can explode off the jar and cause injury, as they reportedly have for 26 children. The contents inside also can create citric acid and irritate eyes. |
A spa toy for girls has proven defective and is subject to a child safety recall announced jointly by JAKKS Pacific and the Consumer Product Safety Commission.| Mar 08 |
Archive for the 'child safety' CategoryChild safety strangled by window shade cord defective products
According to the Consumer Product Safety Commission, around 500 young children have died due to such cords since the early ’80s, or about one per month. Clearly, such shades and blinds are potentially deadly products, yet the federal government hasn’t mandated that their manufacturers make them more safe. Instead, it’s let the industry police itself. |
Child safety requires constant vigilance on the part of parents and anyone who takes care of small children. But even those persons can be led astray, as with accident injuries from defective products that claim to be safe for kids. That was the case with a 16-month-old boy who was found strangled to death in his crib by his mother in 2007, with a window shade cord wrapped around his neck.| Feb 02 |
Archive for the 'child safety' CategoryHammer TV offers safety tips as ‘reality TV’ with meaning, messageEach day, Americans are “hammered” with visual messages on TV and the Internet. But how many are trite, and how many are truly useful? Do we really need to know whose kitty can play the piano? Or do we need to know which defective drugs or injury accidents threaten our loved ones? At Jim S. Adler & Associates, we’re trying to close the information gap not only in our website’s written content, but in its videos. That’s why we’ve created “Hammer TV,” a video-only Web service filled with helpful safety tips and information for keeping your family whole and healthy. Named after longtime Texas personal injury attorney Jim “the Texas Hammer” Adler, Hammer TV hosts a variety of “Top Stories” videos on the dangers and costs of SUVs, ATVs, distracted drivers, salmonella food poisoning, uninsured motorists, defective drugs such as Paxil and — one of our biggest threats, literally — the risks posed by big rig, tractor trailer, semi truck and 18 wheeler vehicles. But don’t worry: There’s also a human touch. Among Hammer TV’s “Top Stories” and “News on JSA Charities,” it offers looks at small children in need getting free “snow parties” or holiday clothes, and even an “up close and personal” look at the Texas Hammer himself, Jim Adler. Hammer TV also has a touching tribute to Kevin Hills, a Texan who was killed by an 18 wheeler, and a heartwarming dedication to the staff and volunteers of Safe Kids Greater Houston, whose mission is to keep our kids safe. Or check out Hammer TV’s “PSAs” tab for tips on road rage, water safety, kid safety and the dangers of texting while driving. Heck, you even can watch Jim Adler’s famed “TV Commercials” all in one place — and with no interruptions by annoying TV shows. It’s all there for you — and for free — on Hammer TV. Tune in, and learn more. Beyond that, the Texas Hammer has hard-hitting videos for you on YouTube and on Facebook. On Facebook, check out Jim Adler’s latest flipcam interviews about Toyota’s massive stuck accelerator recall and why the Japanese automaker can’t be trusted, as well as his take on the computer screens coming to car dashboards this fall. Crazy, right? Also on YouTube as well as on Facebook, watch the emotional video Jim Adler’s firm created for Mothers Against Drunk Driving and MADD Victim Services. Drunk drivers take a terrible toll in human life and in the anguish of victims’ survivors. This video puts a powerful face on them and is a moving reminder that we all have a responsibility to protect each other. Call it reality TV with meaning and a message. Or call it Hammer TV. Either way, it’s here for you. |
| Jan 22 |
Archive for the 'child safety' CategoryGraco baby stroller defective product recall spurred by children’s fingertip amputations
Graco Children’s Products Inc. of Atlanta, which produces the strollers sold at Target, Wal-Mart and other retailers, this week issued a recall of 1.5 million strollers, all made in China. Other retailers selling them between October 2004 and last December are Kmart, Sears, Fred Meyer, Burlington Coat Factory, AAFES, Navy Exchange, Meijer, Babies R Us and Toys R Us. |
American babies are being harmed by strollers which are supposed to protect them. Instead, certain model numbers of Alano, Passage, Travel Systems and Spree Strollers are causing fingertip amputations or cut fingers in infants who put their digits in canopy hinges as strollers open or close.