In my decades representing victims of commercial and construction catastrophes, one pattern has never changed: nearly every “accident” was foreseeable. A missing inspection, an ignored alarm, a ...

Social media, organized advocacy, and documentaries have turned local industrial disasters into national conversations, as affected communities refuse to stay quiet and a growing audience demands ...

The Supreme Court’s sentencing committee has begun work on establishing sentencing guidelines for the **Serious Accidents Punishment Act**. It recommended aggravated punishment by increasing the ...

A bomb squad truck pulls into the Accurate Energetic Systems plant that stores explosives, after a blast resulted in multiple fatalities, Friday, Oct. 10, 2025, in Bucksnort, Tennessee. [AP Photo/John ...

Two major incidents at chemical plants within the past week sent tens of thousands fleeing from their homes in California and left 11 people dead in Washington. But despite a spate of similar ...

The “perfect storm” is a phrase often invoked to suggest a combination of rare events that generate something unusually large and adverse. Often used in meteorological contexts, “perfect storms” ...

Legal authorities across multiple jurisdictions are advancing cases tied to industrial disasters, from a record-breaking police investigation in New Zealand to major insurance settlements in Kenya and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. April 16, 1947: The worst industrial accident in U.S. history occurred when the French ship Grandcamp exploded while docked at ...

A chemical tank rupture in Longview spilled 500,000 gallons of corrosive liquid, marking one of the nation's deadliest workplace disasters in years. Eleven people are presumed dead and eight others ...

Industrial disasters have left some of the deepest, most painful scars in human history. These tragedies — from toxic gas leaks to nuclear meltdowns — are somber reminders of what can happen when ...

Industrial progress has always come with both achievement and risk. As factories, oil rigs, and power plants expanded over the past two centuries, so too did the potential for large-scale accidents.