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 ...

SEOUL, July 5 (Yonhap) -- President Lee Jae Myung on Saturday instructed the government to prepare comprehensive measures to prevent serious industrial accidents and enhance workplace safety. During a ...

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 ...

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” ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Chhattisgarh reported 196 worker deaths in industrial accidents over 17 months. The state government denied lax safety enforcement was the cause. BJP MLAs alleged negligence, citing specific fatal ...

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.

Officials said 239 people were inside the five-story building when the fire began around midday. Rescue crews evacuated 213 workers, while several others were initially listed as missing, Reuters ...