...000 electrical fires, which result in hundreds of injuries and deaths. Electrocutions associated with wiring and consumer products cost hundreds of lives annually. In the workplace, over 300 workplace fatalities and approximately 4,000 injuries...
...In late October of 2012, the Eton Corporation (www.shopetoncorp.com), already a leader in green-powered consumer products, released two new products in their Boost Line with the BoostTurbine 1000 and the BoostTurbine 2000. Both are essentially...
...Encourage development of new technology to make it easier for gun owners to safely use and store their guns. - Have the Consumer Product Safety Commission assess the need for new safety standards for gun locks and gun safes. - Launch a national campaign...
...Winnemucca's parent company owns a potato processing plant at Park Rapids that turns potatoes into French fries and other consumer products. It also owns a potato seed plant at Staples.Camilli said Winnemucca Farms hopes to begin planting potatoes by...
...stabilizing cargo in ships or for packing or crating heavy consumer products in 2002.The beetle has infested ash trees in Michigan...stabilizing cargo in ships or for packing or crating heavy consumer products in 2002.The beetle has infested ash trees in Michigan...
...are approximately 3,500 people in this country each year who lose a digit or worse to a table saw. So says the Consumer Product Safety Commission, which is noodling new regulations to make saws safer.This is, I confess, not my usual source...
...recalled after dozens of reports of the brewers spraying hot liquid, coffee grounds or tea leaves onto people. The Consumer Product Safety Commission says there have been 140 reports of problems with the Tassimo single-cup brewers dousing people...
...should be called the Polident Act.As for the regulators, Nancy Nord, appointed by President George W. Bush to the Consumer Product Safety Commission, actually urged Congress not to increase the agency's budget and staff in 2007 amid worries...
...Congress, sponsored by Minnesota Reps. Jim Ramstad, a Republican, and Bill Luther, a Democrat, would require the Consumer Product Safety Commission to issue a federal standard. Both efforts are a response to several incidents where children have...
...injuring at least 29 children. The company noted it was instituting the recall in cooperation with the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. ''Parents should continue using these...
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