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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The “perfect storm” is a phrase often invoked to suggest a combination of rare events that generate something unusually large and adverse. Often used in meteorological contexts, “perfect storms” ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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