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The Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard (FMVSS) 207 “specifies strength requirements for automotive seats and their attachment assemblies, so as to minimize the possibility of their failure by forces acting on them as a result of vehicle impact.”
While this standard helps to regulate how well a seat structure performs in an accident, it has failed to significantly decrease injuries and fatalities due to seatback failure. Alyssa’s story is one of many such devastating tales…
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This week’s resource is the Website America’s Heroes at Work.
The United States Department of Labor (DOL) created this site in order to address the “employment challenges of returning service members living with Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) and/or Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).”
The Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard (FMVSS) 207 “specifies strength requirements for automotive seats and their attachment assemblies, so as to minimize the possibility of their failure by forces acting on them as a result of vehicle impact.”
While this standard helps to regulate how well a seat structure performs in an accident, it has failed to significantly decrease injuries and fatalities due to seatback failure. Alyssa’s story is one of many such devastating tales…
Last Friday night Houston Texas receiver Harry Williams sustained a spinal cord injury (SCI) during a game against the Dallas Cowboys leaving him temporarily paralyzed. Monday he underwent surgery to fuse two vertebrae in his spinal column, a procedure that will hopefully allow him to lead a normal life, but won’t put him back in the game.
Williams was only 26, an age that would have given him years more on the field had this accident not happened. An estimated 14 percent of SCIs are a direct result of a sports related injury. Considering that there is about ten thousand new SCIs a year, this is a fairly significant number…
he importance of the vehicle seat’s role in automobile accidents shouldn’t be overlooked, yet it often is. If you run an Internet search, you will find numerous stories on collapsed seat backs, faulty restraint systems and inadequate load bearing ability - all manufacturer-related issues that have contributed to injury or death in automobile crashes.
One area of concern that is overlooked more than most is that of wheelchairs used in lieu of standard seats in vehicles…
