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One construction worker died and another was injured after a roof collapsed at The Hill School in Pottstown on November 1. An article in The Delaware County Times reported that the men were working on the roof of a utility building when the Pennsylvania construction accident occurred. Falls from roofs are of particular concern at construction sites. In 2008, there were 121 worker deaths in caused by falls from a [...]

A 16-year-old pitcher playing for the Marin County Athletic League in California was hit by a line drive and suffered a brain injury. According to this article, the League is now banning the use metal bats at high school games. They will require its 10 teams to use wooden bats. The article reported that advocates of the ban believe that metal bats allow the players to hit the ball harder, reducing a player’s rea [...]

A 16-year-old football player from San Jose, CA has been hospitalized since Thanksgiving when he sustained a hairline fracture of his skull during a traditional rival game. According to this article on a cbsSportsline.com website, he required life-saving surgery that day that included placing him into a drug-induced coma. He was in critical condition for one week until doctors took him out of the coma. Doctors say [...]

The mother of an Illinois high school football player is suing his football coach and the district. According to an article in USA Today, she claims her son sustained permanent, stroke-causing brain injuries during a game after the linebacker’s complaints of a headache and signs of a concussion went ignored. The mother has accused the high school coach of recklessly endangering his players by such tactics as con [...]

A top executive at TD Bank died of brain injuries on August 7 after falling out of a moving golf cart at a fund-raiser for a NJ high school. According to this article in the Philadelphia Inquirer, a 44-year-old man of Moorestown, NJ was a passenger in the cart at Rancocas County Club Golf Course in Willingboro Township, NJ. He fell out of it and was airlifted to a nearby hospital, where he later died. The man w [...]

An 18-year-old former female student at Central Bucks High School South who pleaded guilty to charges of vehicular homicide in the death of a schoolmate, was sentenced yesterday to an indefinite term at a disciplinary wilderness camp. According to an article in the Philadelphia Inquirer, the girl will serve at least six months at the facility and will be evaluated at six-month intervals to determine when she can b [...]

A 49-year-old veteran Chester County school bus driver was killed in a three-vehicle collision on Route 322. According to an article in the Philadelphia Inquirer, the bus driver was traveling east on Route 322 to her job at the Krapf’s bus companies. She had stopped her Dodge Caravan to make a left turn onto Highspire Road when she was struck from behind by a pickup truck. The impact of the crash propelled th [...]

A woman says that her 46-year-old husband died because an Erie hospital ran out of blood while treating him after a motorcycle crash. The man was a high school wrestling coach. According to this article by the Associated Press, the woman has sued Hamot Medical Center in Erie, PA saying the hospital had only 16 units of blood available when her husband died of pelvic bleeding after the crash on July 24, 2008. The a [...]