The state commission that regulates Oklahoma’s oil and natural gas industry ordered some injection well operators to reduce wastewater disposal volumes on Monday after at least a dozen earthquakes hit an area north of Oklahoma City in less than a …
The 2016 iteration of the Semi-Annual U.S. Insurance Labor Outlook Study, conducted by The Jacobson Group and Ward Group, a part of Aon Hewitt, a business unit of Aon plc , will begin January 6 and close January 22, 2016. …
There were more airline deaths worldwide due to deliberate acts in 2015 than from accidental air crashes, for the second year in a row, according to an industry tally. There were only eight accidental airline crashes last year, accounting for …
The quest to build crash-proof cars at Toyota Motor Corp. isn’t just a job for Gill Pratt. It’s somewhat personal. Pratt still vividly remembers encountering the aftermath of a collision between a boy on a bicycle and a car that …
In recent months, the safety of hoverboards has been called into question. Several instances of fire have prompted multiple bans on the recreational transportation device that despite its name doesn’t hover, but rather rolls forward and back like a sideways …
Federal accident investigators are considering launching another search of the wreckage of a freighter that sank in October in an attempt to locate the ship’s “black box.” Tom Roth-Roffy, the lead investigator for National Transportation Safety Board, told The Associated …
The disbanding of a federally funded trauma team that helps people deal with the Sandy Hook massacre has forced the Massachusetts town to improvise to ensure the recovery care continues. But the Newton’s plan to replace the Recovery and Resiliency …
A contractor is contesting two “serious” violations and nearly $10,000 in proposed federal workplace safety fines in the partial collapse of a bridge that was being dismantled and rebuilt northwestern Pennsylvania. Clarion-based contractor Francis J. Palo Inc. is contesting the …
Boston-based Safety Insurance Group, Inc. announced that David F. Brussard, current president and chief executive officer of Safety Insurance will retire effective March 31, 2016. The Board of Directors appointed George M. Murphy, vice president of Marketing, as the new …
Western Tennessee and Kentucky are still facing flood threats as the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and Tennessee Valley Authority work to control water levels. The National Weather Service issued a flood advisory for the Cumberland River at Dover through …