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 ...

A convoy of trucks took away 337 metric tonnes of hazardous waste from the site of the Bhopal gas tragedy, 40 years after what is regarded as the world’s worst industrial disaster. The trucks left the ...

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 ...

Plumes of smoke rise from the area after a UPS cargo plane crashed and exploded while taking off at Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport on Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2025, in Louisville, Kentucky. [AP ...

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” ...

Manmade or technological disasters are unpredictable, can spread across geographical boundaries, may be unpreventable, and may have limited physical damage but long-term effects. Some disasters in ...

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 ...

In a quiet but consequential move, the White House has announced plans to eliminate the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB) by October 2026. While the agency may be small, ...

On the 20th, a fire broke out at **Anjun Industrial**, an automotive parts manufacturer in Daejeon Daedeok-gu, killing 14 ...