Figures

350

The number of fire code violations found in The Cleveland Plain Dealer’s review of fire inspection records for 100 Cleveland, Ohio, schools over a four-year period, according to the Associated Press. Fire officials are concerned about children’s safety because the city’s schools are not always following fire codes. At least eight Cleveland principals have been cited by the fire department in the past four years for not reporting small fires or failing to evacuate buildings following an alarm, The Plain Dealer reported. The problems included malfunctioning alarm systems, blocked escape routes and extension cords stretched across classrooms. Schools were cited 22 times for violations in science labs, and several buildings had chronically disabled extinguishing systems in their kitchens, where the U.S. Fire Administration reports a large number of school fires start.

7,500

The number of entries received during the three month contest period for the Great American Insurance Group’s BIG RIG GIVEAWAY. Janesville, Wis.-based long-haul trucker Bruce Doering’s name was drawn at random at the Mid-America Trucking Show (MATS) on March 24 in Louisville, Ky., the company announced. Doering won a 2002 Freightliner Classic customized by 4 State Trucks, home of the popular Chrome Shop Mafia body shop. The BIG RIG GIVEAWAY was open to all truckers with a valid commercial drivers’ license. Doering, an independent owner-operator, has been insured by Cincinnati, Ohio-based Great American since April 2006. Great American Insurance Group’s Trucking Division provides insurance products and services to independent owner-operators.

$50,000

The amount deleted from the proposed $53.3 million budget for North Dakota’s workers’ comp agency by state lawmakers. The $50,000 “party” fund had been included in the Workforce Safety and Insurance agency’s two-year spending bill, SB2021, to provide money for such items as employee incentives, gifts, restaurant cards, balloons, parties and training. But public outcry led lawmakers to remove it from the bill.