In my decades representing victims of commercial and construction catastrophes, one pattern has never changed: nearly every ...

The February 2023 train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, captured the attention of the nation. The public beheld evacuation orders, reports of air, water, and soil contamination, and a billowing ...

The Bhopal gas tragedy was a result of 45 tons of toxic gas that leaked from a pesticide plant (UCIL). It is said to be one of the worst industrial disasters, which killed thousands of people. Taking ...

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 ...

Meeting on preventing industrial disasters Prime Minister Kim Min-seok (2nd from L) attends a meeting at the government ...

Children, and schools, are potent symbols of victimhood in industrial disasters. In the case of historical industrial disasters such as Aberfan and Flixborough, and in terms of preparation for future ...

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 ...

The National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) on Wednesday successfully carried out the National Industrial Disaster Preparedness/ ...

Despite the Lee Jae-myung government’s strong sanctions policy against companies with industrial accidents, the number of ...

On Tuesday, organisations and activists demanded an empowered commission to ensure that victims of the tragedy receive proper ...

The Fukushima nuclear disaster of 2011 brought mass destruction along with it. The aftermath of the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami caused the nuclear plant’s energy sources to fail. Over 164,000 ...