North Carolina’s workplace safety agency said Tuesday that it may be months before it finishes an investigation into why a scaffold with several men on it broke free from the facade of a high-rise construction project and killed three workers. …
The city of Gatlinburg and its wastewater operator have been dropped from a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the families of two workers who were killed when a wall collapsed. The families John Eslinger and Don Storey filed suit after …
The owner of a New Hampshire gunpowder plant where an explosion killed two workers has been convicted of negligent homicide and manslaughter. Maidstone, Vt., resident Craig Sanborn was found guilty Wednesday. He owned the Black Mag plant in Colebrook, where …
At least 112 people were killed in a fire that raced through a multi-story garment factory just outside of Bangladesh’s capital, an official said Sunday. The blaze broke out at the seven-story factory operated by Tazreen Fashions late Saturday. By …
A court in southwestern France on Monday convicted a factory chief and a subsidiary of oil giant Total of manslaughter for an explosion at a chemical plant in 2001 that killed 31 people. The appeals court overturned earlier acquittals, 11 …
A platform elevator at a construction site in southern China has dropped 30 floors in a free fall, killing 19 workers. The official Xinhua News Agency says the accident happened Thursday in Wuhan city in Hubei province. A government notice …
Authorities say a tunnel blast has killed 19 workers at a central Chinese highway construction site. Two officials from Hunan province’s work safety bureau said Saturday’s explosion killed 19 and injured one person. The officials only gave their surnames as …