Fitness Trainer Partially Paralyzed In Elevator Freefall Files Lawsuit |
A fitness trainer who was badly injured in a freak elevator accident in November has filed a lawsuit against the landlord of his building and two elevator companies—and, yup, one of the companies is Transel, whom you may recall from such horrifying elevator accidents as the woman who was crushed to death at her Madison Avenue office building last month. Corey Hill, a dancer and beloved fitness trainer known for his high energy and enthusiasm, saw his life radically change on November 11th after he stepped onto the elevator in his midtown west apartment building and pressed the button for the lobby. That's when the car started free-falling. |
Paul Townsend and Jason Bonner checking the headstones |
Laying wobbly headstones flat in case they fell on someone has caused an even greater hazard – tripping over them. |
Council workers were sent to Radwinter Road Cemetery, in Saffron Walden, to test headstones for safety and told to lay flat any "hazardous" ones – about 200 were affected. |
Santa Rosa firefighter's roof inspection draws safety fine |
Santa Rosa fire inspector Toby Rey, right, measures the placement of solar panels on a new home as Sunpower construction manager Jason Mueller watches on Aug. 3, 2011. The photo ran with a Page One story in The Press Democrat on Aug. 7. |
But local Cal-OSHA officials, who enforce workplace safety laws, saw something different — a serious safety hazard. And last month they slapped the Santa Rosa Fire Department with a $2,700 fine. |
A catalogue of mistakes by workmen led to a young mother being killed after she was electrocuted while mopping up water at her home. Read more at www.dailymail.co.uk |
A HOSPITAL consultant who was sacked after taking maternity leave has been
awarded a record £4.4 million by a tribunal after it heard years
of abuse left her unable to work again as a doctor.
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Council apologises after solicitor trapped for an hour |
COUNCIL chiefs have apologised after a lawyer was trapped in a council car park lift for so long that he gave up on being rescued and forced his way out.
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Photographer alerts cabinet minister to Hyde Park photo ban |
An amateur photographer is set to lobby his local MP after camera club members were banned from taking photos which include children at the Winter Wonderland fair in Hyde Park. |
Meanwhile, Lafbury has received an email from Winter Wonderland organisers, PWR Events.
In the email customer service manager Kate Hofstetter said all photographers, including students and camera clubs, must be 'accredited and briefed', in the interests of visitor safety.
She spelled out the rules they must follow:
• No cameras on the ice rink
• Photographs of children may not be taken
• Tripods are allowed as long as you don't obstruct the pathways, otherwise security will ask you to move along Read more at www.amateurphotographer.co.uk |
Bags of asbestos and large sheets have been illegally dumped in two areas of Leicester. |
The waste was found on Freeman Road North in early November and a week later more was discovered at Thurnby Lodge Boys Club on Thurncourt Road. |
Furniture firm
‘put workers at serious risk’ |
A NEWMARKET furniture company and two of its directors have been ordered to pay over £12,000 after they admitted breaching fire regulations and putting their workers at serious risk. |
Showhouse Furniture Limited and directors Francoise Guillambert and Edward Babington pleaded guilty to 12 charges brought by Suffolk’s Fire and Rescue Service when they appeared before magistrates in Bury St Edmunds on Thursday. |
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