After growing up on the West Coast, experiencing a Chicago winter for the first time in college was a very rude awakening.

Like its renamed counterpart, the slender, serrated edge of the shovel's blade easily cuts into the snow, lifting fresh powder, heavy slush, and icy chunks alike. The long handle makes lifting ...

According to the American Journal of Emergency Medicine, almost 200,000 adults were treated in emergency rooms for snow-shovel-related accidents from 1990 to 2006, and more than 1,600 deaths were ...