Without treatment, sleep disorders -- like sleep apnea, which affects about 25% of transportation workers -- worsen accident risk.
When compared with dialing, talking, listening or reaching for an electronic device, texting posed the greatest accident risk, the study found.
Following the accident, the risk level to crossing users at the site has been increased.
Peter Bradford, a member of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission at the time of the Three Mile Island accident in Pennsylvania in 1979, said the accident exposes shortcomings in risk analysis as well as engineering.
Before going out on the water, boaters can minimize the risk of accident or injury by taking a boating safety course, performing a vessel safety check, filing a float plan with a friend or family member prior to departure, and carefully assessing weather conditions.
Obviously, if you push a facility too hard you also increase the risk of an accident.
Mr Clinton said speed cameras helped to save lives because speeding "significantly" increases the risk of an accident happening.
It was based on a very limited sample, but comparisons to DUI aside, other studies have conclusively shown that texting while driving decreases reaction time and increases the risk of an accident.
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"The bear M13 had certainly never showed any aggression toward man, but the risk that an accident might happen and that people might be badly injured or killed had become intolerable, " it said.
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The risk of an accident grows with each successive night shift, so that a worker is twice as likely to have an accident on the fourth night shift in a row as on the first.
He said the explosion was a "tragic accident" resulting from a "risk that was identified".
It claimed climate change would mean more extreme weather and an increased risk of a marine accident.
He said cameras were placed in areas where motorists were most at risk of having an accident.
Meanwhile, with so many ships trawling the crowded waters of the Gulf, there is always the risk of an "accident" or "collision" with unintended consequences.
It's likely that Hamlin will drop to the back of the field at the start of the race to try avoid an early accident, but he could also risk falling out of the draft.
Recent studies have found that after the loss of a loved one, the risk of dying from an accident, violence or drug and alcohol-related event drastically increases as well.
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According to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, 35 percent of all deaths among 16-19 year-olds are motor-vehicle related, with the risk of getting into an accident among teenage drivers being particularly high during the first months after obtaining their licenses.
The founder of easyJet, Stelios Haji-Ioannou, further fuelled the safety debate by expressing doubts about Ryanair's use of 20-year-old aircraft on some of its routes, pointing out that though they flattered profits in the short term, they put the future of the airline at risk in the event of an accident.
Breast cancer survivors, juvenile diabetes patients and accident victims have trouble even getting a quote in risk-rating states like California and Illinois.
Accident and emergency medics say lives are put at risk because riders do not have to wear protective gear - despite the fact the bikes can reach 90mph.
He said less money led to the risk of increased waiting times for services such as accident and emergency, and was putting additional pressures on his staff.
Those who wish to take the risk should do it with eyes wide open, not by accident, neglect or inertia.
The defendants said the risk of serious injury was very slight and it was a freak accident.
The nuclear accident at Three Mile Island, for example, elevated the importance of environmental risk factors in the markets.
It says all five sites would continue to provide accident and emergency and midwifery-led maternity services, but says high-risk maternity deliveries could be centralised in three units.
But nobody wants to see people risk their lives attending a sports event and, hopefully, this accident will push engineers to develop even safer fences so a tragedy can be averted in the future.
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For girls exposed to radiation from the accident as infants, the report found a 4% increase above the lifetime expected risk of solid tumours and a 6% increase above that expected for breast cancer.
When Smith of Smith and Company ends up with multiple fractures from a skiing accident, the company suddenly is seen to be without a leader, and therefore a risk to suppliers and customers.
The ESC's studies also included fire and accident trends from the Department of Communities and Local Government and data on the number of high risk electrical items in homes from the Department of Energy and Climate Change.
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