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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Forty years ago, on the night of Sunday 2 December of 1984, people in the city of Bhopal and surrounding communities were settling in for what seemed like yet another regular night. The worst thing in ...

Life for Zsuzsa Gyenes has become a never-ending nightmare after a Norfolk Southern “bomb train” carrying hazardous chemicals derailed in her hometown of East Palestine, OH, on Feb. 3, 2023. “When the ...

President Lee Jae Myung speaks during a management-labor meeting at a plant of SPC Samlip Co., a confectionery unit under SPC Group, in Siheung, near Seoul, on July 25, 2025, to discuss measures to ...

Disasters, from hurricanes to wildfires and heat waves, unleash immediate chaos and widespread impact, placing immense pressure on communities and the organizations that serve them. While first ...

Prime Minister Kim Min-seok (2nd from L) attends a meeting at the government complex in Seoul on Dec. 3, 2025, to discuss issues on how to prevent serious industrial accidents and enhance workplace ...