Mike Walker, the fifty-five year old co-owner of the Pro Nitrous drag racing team was killed in a freak accident when he was hit in the chest with an exploding nitrous oxide tank during a race at the South Georgia Motorsports Park. Apparently, the drag racing team uses nitrous oxide tanks to boost their vehicles’…
William “Alex” Williamson, a 59 year old Virginia Department of Forestry employee, was driving his SUV with three passengers when an unidentified metal object glanced off the highway and crashed through the windshield of his car, striking him in the head. Alex was struck unconscious, and the front-seat passenger struggled for the next five miles…
Folks in Orange County, California love their cars, but drivers beware: the car wash can turn deadly. Hospice nurse Jolynn Banner of Lincolnton, NC was innocently enjoying her day off recently, when she pulled into the local gas station for a quick car wash. A few minutes later, police got a call saying that someone…
What makes Callahan & Blaine California’s Premier Litigation Firm? It’s our team of exceptional senior lawyers, like Brian McCormack. Brian is a principal at Callahan & Blain in Santa Ana, California, where his practice focuses on high-stakes, complex litigation, including serious personal injury, wrongful death and product liability cases. Brian has been recognized year in…
Unfortunately, workplace accidents happen all the time in Orange County, California and around the world. In what is being called a “freak accident” that took place in Bristol, PA a worker was crushed and killed by his own forklift while working at a local warehouse. Tyrone Rucker, Sr. had apparently stepped down from the forklift…
In January of 2001, Philip Dohrman of Huntington Beach, California, was driving northbound on the 1-5 in Irvine when the cab of his truck was crushed by a flying truck tire weighing 180 pounds. A commercial tractor trailer travelling southbound on I-5 had lost the wheel, which continued to roll down the highway, crossing the…
According to a recent article in the Seattle Times, truck driver Charles McDonald was transferring 8,000 gallons of propane from his tanker truck to a storage tank at the Atlas Castings & Technology foundry when something went horribly wrong. The propane ignited causing a workplace explosion and fire. Fire department spokesman Dan Crotty reported that…
