Facts About Fireworks: 11,000 Injuries, 4 Deaths in 2016.

The Fourth of July means fireworks across America and that can mean thousands of injuries and trips to hospital emergency wards.
An estimated 7,600 of the total 11,000 fireworks-related injuries in 2016 were treated in hospital emergency departments during the period between June 18, 2016 and July 18, 2016, according to a report on 2016 by the Consumer Products Safety Commission and its National Electronic Injury Surveillance System.

The home of “Big Bang Theory” star Johnny Galecki has been destroyed in a wildfire in California.
Nicole Perna, a spokeswoman for the 42-year-old actor, says his home on a ranch in the San Luis Obispo area was destroyed by the wildfire on the state’s central coast.
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By Tuesday night, a 2.5-square-mile wildfire in the region was 60 percent contained. Fire officials have only confirmed that the wildfire has destroyed one building and have no details, but the full damage done by wildfires often can’t be assessed until they have been mostly contained.
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About 250 residents were ordered from their homes in the area of Santa Margarita after the blaze erupted Monday,

A federal appeals court has reinstated a constructive discharge claim in an age discrimination case filed by a former city parks worker who said he felt forced to resign because of the verbal abuse he was subjected to by his supervisor.
Lynn Sorenson, who had worked for the parks and recreation department of the City of Caldwell, Idaho, since 2008, said his supervisor subjected him to a working environment that was “hostile, offensive, intimidating and extremely unsafe,” according to court papers in Lynn Sorenson v. City of Caldwell, a political subdivision of the State of Idaho, City of Caldwell Department of Parks and Recreation.

Legalizing recreational marijuana use in Colorado, Oregon and Washington has resulted in collision claim frequencies that are about three percent higher overall than would have been expected without legalization, a new insurance report has found.
The Highway Loss Data Institute (HLDI) report says that more drivers admit to using marijuana, and the substance is showing up more frequently among people involved in crashes

For years, many employers have automatically required drug testing of an employee involved in any work-related accident.  The fact that an accident occurred was justification for the testing, without regard to whether any suspected drug or alcohol use contributed to the accident, and regardless of the severity of the injury or damage.
 
Some states have placed limitations on this practice. For example, in the 2013 California ​

HOUSTON - Disability and workers' compensation fraud cost taxpayers millions of dollars a year.
People take advantage of a benefit meant to help in a time of need. But government agencies are cracking down -- hiring private eyes -- to catch fraudsters in the act.

​Crystel Riedling, 44, uses her right arm at Disney World again and again. Video taken by undercover agents was just one piece of evidence federal prosecutors used to prove their disability fraud case against her.