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 ...

The Eynez coal mine in Turkey caught on fire due to an explosion on 13 May 2014. This underground coal mine tragedy took place due to poor safety conditions. The fire was most likely caused by methane ...

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 ...

The February 2023 train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, captured the attention of the nation. The public beheld evacuation orders, reports of air, water, and soil contamination, and a billowing ...

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” ...

On this day 99 years ago -- May 27, 1925 -- the largest industrial disaster in the history of North Carolina happened near the county line between Chatham and Lee counties, a coal mine explosion that ...

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 ...

NEW DELHI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Thirty years on from the Bhopal disaster, an international film opens on Friday dramatising the story of how an American pesticide factory in India ...