Archive for November, 2009

8 People Suffer Carbon Monoxide Poisoning at L.I. Restaurant

Nassau County police evacuated Ayhan’s Shish-Kebab Mediterranean Restaurant at 379 S. Oyster Bay Rd. in Plainview Monday night after reports of multiple customers falling unconscious. Emergency workers transported eight people to area hospitals, Nassau University Medical Center and North Shore University Hospitals in Syosset and Plainview, suffering from carbon monoxide poisoning. Three other people sustained [...]

Amputations of Children’s Fingers Prompts Recall of a Million Strollers

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) and Maclaren USA, Inc. have announced a voluntary recall of about one million children’s strollers due to reports of fingertip amputations. The stroller’s hinge mechanism poses a fingertip amputation and laceration hazard to the child when the consumer is unfolding/opening the stroller. Maclaren has received 15 reports of [...]