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Does the Risk-Utility Test Exception for Simple Tools Apply to Boat Propellers?

In mid 2011, Brunswick requested a rehearing of their appeal of the Jacob Brochtrup propeller injury case in front of the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. Brunswick feels the original court (U.S. District Court, Western District of Texas, Austin) did not force Brochtrup to prove the design of their boat was unreasonably dangerous under […]

Propeller Accident News Media Coverage Phase 2 (The Hospital Stay) Wordle

This article is a continuation of our series investigating news media coverage of propeller accidents by using wordles of a collection of news articles about a specific accident. It follows, Phase 1 Breaking News Coverage of Propeller Accidents. We continue to study news media coverage of the same boat propeller accident, Gabby DeSouza injured by […]

Propeller Accident News Media Coverage Phase 1 (Breaking News Reports) Wordle

We mentioned in our earlier post on using wordles to explore propeller safety topics our intention of using wordles to identify common threads in media coverage of propeller accidents. For those not familiar with wordles, they are a form of word art in which the relative size of a word represents its relative frequency in […]

Virginia Beach Propeller Accident Impales Girl’s Leg – Alexis Angelopolous

A 12 year old girl (later identified as Alexis Angelopolous) was impaled between propellers of a stern drive boat in Chesapeake Bay off Virginia Beach (va beach va) Thursday afternoon 30 June 2011. Firefighters and a police dive instructor report it was one of the most difficult rescues they ever attempted. First responders held her […]