Small Agency, Big Job: Biden Tasks OSHA With Vaccine Mandate September 17, 2021 By Paul Wiseman WASHINGTON (AP) — The Occupational Safety and Health Administration doesn’t make many headlines. Charged with keeping America’s workplaces safe, it...
Mechanical Problems Likely Cause of Industrial Plant Fire October 13, 2020 TACOMA, Wash. — Mechanical problems at a Tacoma industrial plant are the likely cause for a fire that triggered explosions...
Indiana’s Worst Environmental Disaster, 20 Years Later December 31, 2019 By Sarah Bowman ANDERSON, Ind. — Twenty years later, Jim Hensley still remembers that call. The longtime machinist was sitting in the shop...
Shut Philadelphia Refinery Begins Risky Job of Removing Toxic Chemical August 2, 2019 By Laila Kearney PHILADELPHIA — Workers at the fire-damaged Philadelphia Energy Solutions refinery took the first steps this week toward ridding the plant...
Investigators to Begin Hunt for Cause of Texas Petrochemical Disaster April 2, 2019 By Collin Eaton and Erwin Seba U.S. investigators hope this week for the first time to enter the site of a massive fuel fire and chemical...
KBR Seeks Battlefield Immunity in Soldiers’ Exposure Suit September 4, 2013 By Laurel Brubaker Calkins and Margaret Cronin Fisk KBR Inc. invoked federal laws shielding contractors during wartime in an effort to avoid a Texas trial over injuries claimed...