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Gas Range Recall Expanded Due to Carbon Monoxide Poisoning Risk
The USCPSC received reports of consumers seeking medical attention.
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OSHA Finds Duct-Taped Machine Guards Following Worker Fatality
The plastics plant faces nearly $300,000 in fines.
January 27, 2023
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LA's Troubled Urban Oil Drilling History Nears End
After years of health concerns.
January 27, 2023
A gate at the entrance to the former Ciba Geigy chemical plant in Toms River, N.J., is filled with warning on Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2023, regarding the contaminated area, which is on the Superfund list of the nation's worst toxic waste sites.
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Town Where Child Cancer Rose Blasts Deal Over Polluted Site
When workers came home from the plant, their perspiration would be the color of the dye they were working with.
January 27, 2023
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Grand Jury Probes Faulty Goodyear Recreational Vehicle Tires
Documents revealed Goodyear knew the G159 RV tire could fail and cause severe crashes, yet it didn't recall them for as many as 20 years.
January 27, 2023
Catherine Berthet, of France, closes her eyes as he holds a photo of her deceased daughter Camille Geoffroy, in front of other families that lost loved ones to crashes of the Boeing 737 Max airliner outside the federal court in Fort Worth, Texas, Thursday, Jan. 26, 2023.
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Boeing Pleads Not Guilty in Case Over Deadly Max Crashes
The families are trying to convince a federal judge to throw out a settlement.
January 27, 2023
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Ford Recalls Nearly 383K SUVs to Fix Backup Camera Problem
January 27, 2023
People walk on the sand near the shuttered San Onofre nuclear power plant in San Clemente, Calif., on June 30, 2011.
U.S. Sweetens Pot to Study Siting for Spent Nuke Fuel Storage
January 26, 2023
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Lumber Supplier Faces Fines Following Worker's Death
January 24, 2023
Wreckage is piled at the crash scene of Ethiopian Airlines flight ET302 near Bishoftu, Ethiopia, March 11, 2019.
Boeing Max Likely Hit a Bird Before 2019 Crash
January 24, 2023
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January 10, 2023
Workers work on equipment at the West End Substation, at 6910 NC Hwy 211 in West End, N.C., Monday, Dec. 5, 2022, where a serious attack on critical infrastructure has caused a power outage to many around Southern Pines, N.C.
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State Lawmakers Propose Power Grid Protections After Attacks
Workers want increased penalties for intentionally destroying electrical infrastructure or other utility property.
January 23, 2023
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Cheap Sewer Pipe Repairs Can Push Toxic Fumes Into Homes & Schools
As U.S. water infrastructure ages, communities nationwide are grappling with thousands of broken sewer pipes in their 1.3 million-mile inventory.
January 23, 2023
Plant employees drive 2011 Ford Explorer vehicles off the assembly line at Ford's Chicago Assembly Plant in Chicago, Dec. 1, 2010. The U.S. government's road safety agency has closed a more than six-year investigation into Ford Explorer exhaust odors, determining that the SUVs don't emit high levels of carbon monoxide and don't need to be recalled.
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Ford Avoids Recall After SUV Exhaust Issues
The NHTSA says it reviewed more than 6,500 consumer complaints.
January 23, 2023
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Justice Department Investigating Abbott Baby Formula Plant
Inspectors uncovered several violations at the facility, including bacterial contamination, a leaky roof and lax safety protocols.
January 23, 2023
The Illinois River as seen from Goat's Bluffat the J.T. Nickel Family Nature and Wildlife Preserve, July 18, 2019.
Food & Beverage
Tyson, Others Lose Oklahoma Lawsuit Over Poultry Pollution
An estimated 354,000 to 528,000 tons of chicken litter was spread on the land each year by the companies.
January 20, 2023
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3 Amazon Warehouses Fined for Ergonomic Hazards
OSHA says Amazon warehouse workers at high risk for lower back injuries and other musculoskeletal disorders.
January 18, 2023
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How to Shelter from a Nuclear Explosion
The team used advanced computer modeling to study how a nuclear blast wave speeds through a standing structure.
January 17, 2023
A flame rises after an explosion at a gas pipeline near Pasvalys, 175 km (109 miles) north of Vilnius in northern Lithuania on Friday, Jan. 13, 2023.
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Gas Explosion Blamed on Technical Malfunction
The blast sent flames 150 feet into the Lithuanian sky.
January 16, 2023
This aerial photo shows the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Okuma town, Fukushima prefecture, north of Tokyo, on March 17, 2022. Japan's government has revised the timing of a planned release to the sea of treated but still radioactive wastewater at the Fukushima nuclear power plant to “around spring or summer,' indicating a delay from the initial target of this spring, factoring into the progress of a release tunnel and the need to gain public support.
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Japan Delays Fukushima Plant Water Release
Japan has revised the timing of a planned release to the sea of treated but still radioactive wastewater.
January 13, 2023
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ABC Polymer Pleads Guilty Over Fatal Accident
The plea comes more than five years after the incident.
January 12, 2023
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Going Beyond Dust Hazard Analysis
A safety expert walks agricultural and food processing companies through dust hazard analysis.
January 12, 2023
In this undated photo provided by Virgin Orbit on Monday, Jan. 9, 2023, Virgin Atlantic Cosmic Girl, a repurposed Virgin Atlantic Boeing 747 aircraft that will carry a rocket, is parked at Spaceport Cornwall, at Cornwall Airport in Newquay, England. Engineers are making final preparations for the first satellite launch from the U.K. later Monday, when a repurposed passenger plane is expected to release a Virgin Orbit rocket carrying several small satellites into space.
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Virgin Orbit: Premature Shutdown Behind Rocket Launch Fail
"The upper stage experienced an anomaly," the aerospace company said.
January 12, 2023
In this image provided by Georgia Power, the outside of the Unit 3 reactor containment building at Plant Vogtle in Waynesboro, Ga., is shown on Oct. 13, 2022.
Safety
Georgia Nuclear Plant Startup Delayed Due to Vibrating Pipe
The plant includes the first two nuclear reactors being built from scratch in the U.S. in decades.
January 12, 2023
Jennifer Homendy of the National Transportation Safety Board speaks during a news conference, Oct. 3, 2019, in Windsor Locks, Conn.
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U.S. Official Warns of Risks Posed by Heavy Electric Vehicles
The extra weight that EVs typically carry stems from the outsize mass of their batteries.
January 12, 2023