Posts tagged Fireworks

• What Does It Take To Be An Expert At Handling Fireworks?

  John Cooper | August 20, 2009 2:29 PM | 0 CommentsGreenville, OBX & Rocky Mount, NC Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  When you were young, your parents probably told you a lot of things to keep you out of trouble. Don’t run with scissors, no horsing around by the pool, don’t play with matches. As...

• Ocracoke’s Tragic Fireworks Shared Same Faulty Batch with Belhaven

  Rick Shapiro | July 12, 2009 7:25 AM | 0 CommentsGreenville, OBX & Rocky Mount, NC Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  -{12469659884274}--> The town of Belhaven had a challenge last Saturday on their 4th of July celebration. It seems that they had a problem with faulty fireworks. They ended up with...

• Tighter Safety Standards Sought In Wake of Tragic Fireworks Accident

  Pierce Egerton | July 09, 2009 10:51 PM | 0 CommentsGreensboro, NC Category: Workplace Injuries
  

  According to State Senator Marc Basnight, new legislation will be introduced next week to tighten safety standards for the handling of large quantities of fireworks. The move comes in the wake of...

• Ocracoke Fireworks Explosion Victim Survived by Young Child

  Pierce Egerton | July 08, 2009 3:45 PM | 5 CommentsGreensboro, NC Category: Wrongful Death
  

  In an even more tragic turn to the Ocracoke fireworks explosion, that took the lives of four people last Saturday, it has been brought to my attention that the woman who died in the explosion was a...

• July 4th Weekend Tragedy: Fireworks Explosion Kills Four People in North Carolina

  Jim Lewis | July 07, 2009 12:12 PM | 0 CommentsGreenville, OBX & Rocky Mount, NC Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  The community of Ocracoke Island, North Carolina (NC) is mourning the deaths of four workers who were killed while unloading a truck containing fireworks exploded catapulting debris throughout...

• 1 Killed and 4 Injured on Ocracoke Island in Fireworks Explosion

  Emily Mapp Brannon | July 05, 2009 8:08 PM | 0 CommentsGreenville, OBX & Rocky Mount, NC Category: Wrongful Death
  

  Tragedy hits the small Outer Bank’s island of Ocracoke when a truckload of fireworks exploded Saturday morning on a dock, killing one worker and critically injuring four others...

• UPDATE: 4 Dead, 1 Injured in Tragic Fireworks Explosion

  Pierce Egerton | July 04, 2009 11:42 PM | 2 CommentsGreensboro, NC Category: Workplace Injuries
  

  The Virginian-Pilot is reporting that two more workers have died from injuries sustained when a truck loaded with fireworks exploded on Ocracoke Island in North Carolina’s Outer Banks. The...

• One Dead, Four Wounded in Fireworks Blast

  Pierce Egerton | July 04, 2009 6:15 PM | 0 CommentsGreensboro, NC Category: Workplace Injuries
  

  One worker was killed and four others seriously injured when a truck filled with fireworks exploded this morning on Ocracoke Island, NC. WFMY is reporting that one of the injured suffered serious...

• Be Cautious When Using Fireworks

  Emily Mapp Brannon | July 04, 2009 2:27 PM | 1 CommentVirginia Beach, Chesapeake & Suffolk, VA Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  Its July 4th weekend and we all know what that entails – fireworks. In the state of Virginia (VA), consumers are allowed to use specific fireworks including sparklers, fountains,...

• Happy Fourth Of July

  Mike Bryant | July 04, 2009 7:13 AM | 2 CommentsSt. Cloud, MN Category: Miscellaneous
  

  It's Independence Day. It was always one of the greatest days each year when I got to enjoy it back in Rhode Island as I was growing up. There was a 3-4 hour parade, clam bakes and fireworks at...