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A confined-space emergency often creates more than one exposure. An entrant may collapse inside a tank, vault, vessel, pit, or sewer, and an unprotected coworker may be injured while trying to help. The investigation should preserve the original entry conditions and the rescue sequence separately. Otherwise, later records may blur what disabled the entrant…
Grain can behave like a moving fluid when an auger or gate draws it from a bin. A worker standing on the surface may be pulled down, and bridged or crusted grain can collapse without warning. After an engulfment, the central evidence question is why the worker entered while grain could move or fall…
A suspected infusion-pump overdose cannot be reconstructed from the pump screen alone. The medication order, pharmacy preparation, programming history, drug library, tubing, remaining fluid, device clock, alarms, and clinical response all describe different parts of the delivery. Preserving them together is the first step toward determining whether too much medication or fluid was actually…
A pedestrian was hospitalized in critical condition after being struck November 8 on NE Evangeline Thruway frontage road near Goldenrod Drive in Lafayette.
When a wheelchair moves inside a transport van, investigators should resist treating the chair, the rider, and the vehicle as one restraint problem. The chair must be secured to the vehicle. The occupant may need a separate lap and shoulder belt. The driver’s turn, stop, or collision may be a third issue. Photographs and…
An ambulance crash produces two overlapping timelines. One is the traffic event. The other is the patient’s medical condition and movement inside the patient compartment. A useful investigation keeps those timelines separate long enough to determine whether the collision, a restraint issue, moving equipment, the original emergency, or some combination caused the additional harm….
When a surgeon removes an implant or medical device after a suspected failure, the removed component may be the only object that can show a fracture, worn surface, corrosion, contamination, or another physical condition. Operative notes and photographs are important, but they do not replace the device itself. Preservation planning should begin before removal…
If the medication in your bag does not match what you expected, contact the pharmacist or prescribing clinician promptly for instructions. A different-looking tablet may reflect a manufacturer change, but a wrong drug, strength, or label needs to be resolved. If someone is having a severe reaction or another medical emergency, seek emergency help….
Perry Green, 66, died after a westbound I-20 rollover near Jewella Avenue in Shreveport. Published reports disagree on the November 6 to 7 collision time.
Two Beavercreek, Ohio residents died November 6 in an I-12 crash near LA 43 in Livingston Parish. Daniel Dennison faces vehicular homicide charges.
Isaiah Gage, 18, died after being struck November 6 on Mudd Avenue in Lafayette. Police cited the driver and are investigating the turning-lane collision.
Two 75-year-old women died November 6 in a head-on crash with a Freightliner box truck on LA 44 near Marigold Street in Mount Airy.
A motorcyclist died November 7 on I-10 westbound in New Orleans. NOPD is investigating whether an unidentified vehicle struck him after he fell.
A 35-year-old Sterlington woman died November 6 after her SUV struck a school bus on LA 2 near Bella Vista Road in Claiborne Parish.
Crime Stoppers is offering up to $5,000 in the December 2025 hit-and-run death of Baton Rouge cyclist Aaron Augustus Jr. The driver remains unidentified.