According to the Tennessee Department of Safety and Homeland Security, the number of motorcycle riders killed in the state of Tennessee in 2012 – 133 – has already surpassed the number from last year, which was 114. Unfortunately, the trend isn't unique to Tennessee, says Kara Macek, communications manager at the Governor's Highway Safety Association. "It's a nationwide trend that...
In honor of national Workers' Memorial Day, family and friends gathered at the City-County Building in Knoxville last month to remember loved ones who were killed in work-related accidents throughout Tennessee. More than 160 Tennessee workers lost their lives in fatal on-the-job accidents in 2011 and 2012, according to data compiled by the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)...
Tennessee officials have fined a Chattanooga manufacturing company nearly $16,000 for safety violations related to the death of a plant worker this past spring. Larry Chubbs, 54, was killed on May 7, 2012, when a panel of the catwalk on a large machine at TAG Manufacturing became dislodged, dropping him into the fast-moving machinery below. The worker's body was discovered...
In a unanimous decision, the Tennessee Supreme Court has ruled that auto insurance policies in Tennessee are not required to provide coverage for mental injuries or emotional distress when the insured party has suffered no physical harm. The Court clarified this component of insurance coverage in light of a 2006 accident in which an 18-year-old boy was struck and fatally...
Mayor A. C. Wharton of Memphis, Tennessee is planning to ask the City Council to fund new technology to be placed in police cars that could help prevent devastating Tennessee car accidents, like the one that left two people dead last month. The accident Wharton spoke of occurred at about 2:45 in the afternoon, when rookie police officer Alex Beard...
A 54-year-old Tennessee man was killed and three of his grandchildren sustained injuries recently when another driver forced their vehicle into a ditch, in what TN police are investigating as a road rage incident. According to authorities, the Tennessee man was driving his pickup truck around 6:45 a.m., when another driver ran his car off the road and then left...
