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MTA bus driver killed in crash 'looked after everyone else first'
Olivia Gamboa began her route through downtown Los Angeles in the pre-dawn darkness. After 13 years as a bus driver with the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, she could have chosen any shift. She opted to drive at 5 a.m., as most of the city slept,...
Tags: Motorvehicle Accidents, Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority, Transportation Accidents, Accidental Death, Heart Attack
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2nd victim dies from Louisiana chemical plant explosion
HOUSTON--A second worker injured in an explosion and fire at a central Louisiana petrochemical plant has died and a few others remained hospitalized Friday. Scott Thrower, 47, of St. Amant, La., suffered burns Thursday morning in the explosion at the...
Tags: Environmental Pollution, Health and Safety at Work, Career and Workplace, Occupational Safety and Health Administration, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
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Investigators seek cause of chemical blasts in Louisiana
State and federal investigators in Louisiana are working to uncover what caused fatal blasts at two different chemical plants in the span of two days. The second explosion took place Friday night at the CF Industries plant in Donaldsonville, a small...
Tags: Health and Safety at Work, Occupational Safety and Health Administration, Explosions, Emergency Incidents
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Blast at Louisiana petrochemical plant kills 1, injures 77
HOUSTON — At least one person was killed and 77 injured Thursday in an explosion and fire at a petrochemical plant in the Louisiana town of Geismar, part of a heavily industrial region known as “Cancer Alley.” “This has been a...
Tags: Environmental Pollution, Water Pollution, Bobby Jindal, Julie Cart, Government
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Driver was speeding before fatal Pico Rivera crash, police say
A violent crash in Pico Rivera that killed three people, including two children, Thursday night appears to have been caused by a speeding driver who crossed into oncoming traffic, authorities said. A preliminary investigation shows that the northbound...Tags: Motorvehicle Accidents, Transportation Accidents, Accidental Death
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Global Voices: Fukushima made ex-premier a 'no nukes' crusader
After the cascade of disasters that befell Japan 27 months ago, then-Prime Minister Naoto Kan took the brunt of withering criticism for shoddy nuclear safety standards at the crippled Fukushima reactor complex and the government’s chaotic...Tags: Japan Earthquake and Tsunami (2011), Energy Resources, Tokyo Electric Power Co., Government, Politics
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Car crashes should be a global health priority, scientists say
Given the personal suffering caused by traffic accidents -- 1.2 million deaths a year worldwide -- there's far too little attention paid by health researchers, scientists argued Tuesday. In 2030, such accidents are projected to become the fifth-...
Tags: Breast Cancer, Science and Technology, Medical Research, Heart Disease, Diana, Princess of Wales
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Philadelphia building inspector dead in apparent suicide
A Philadelphia building inspector who had checked and signed off on a demolition site that later collapsed and killed six people has died in an apparent suicide, officials said Thursday. Ronald Wagenhoffer, who was 52, was found dead in his vehicle...
Tags: Lawyers, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia Building Collapse (2013), Justice System, The Salvation Army
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Bus driver killed in downtown crash from a family of bus operators
Olivia Gamboa was just beginning her shift on Metro Line 18 in downtown L.A. when a tow truck smashed head-on into her bus early Wednesday. The 13-year veteran, who was steering an otherwise unoccupied bus near 5th Street and Broadway, died after the...
Tags: Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority, AEG, Michael Jackson
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Metro bus driver dies after collision with tow truck downtown
The driver of a Metro bus died Wednesday morning after an apparently speeding tow truck smashed into it at 5th and Broadway downtown, authorities said. "Metro is saddened to learn of the passing of one of our family members this morning as a result of a...
Tags: Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority, Los Angeles Fire Department
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Explosion at Valley High in Santa Ana sends 4 students to hospital
Four students were taken to the hospital and a building was cordoned off after an explosion in a boiler room at a Santa Ana high school early Tuesday. Officials said that about 7:30 a.m. a pipe above a boiler at Valley High School at 1801 S....
Tags: Teaching and Learning, Students, Explosions, Santa Monica College, Emergency Incidents
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Chinese poultry workers tell of stampede during fire
BEIJING — There was a loud bang, survivors said. Then the lights went out, and fire quickly engulfed a poultry plant in northeastern China, killing at least 119 workers who were trapped inside behind locked doors. The fire on Monday, perhaps the...
Tags: Metal and Mineral, Livestock Farming, Plant Openings, Health and Safety at Work, Mining
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