An inferno at a three-story clothing store in the southern Philippines early Wednesday killed 17 employees, all women who were sleeping on the top floor, police said. Three women managed to dash out of a burning room and groped their …
Bartlett Grain Co. L.P. faces five willful and eight serious safety violations cited by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration following an October 2011 grain elevator explosion in Atchison that killed six workers and left two …
A construction crane owner whose rig collapsed and killed two workers is facing the only criminal trial stemming from the disaster, with prosecutors saying he pinched pennies on a crucial repair while he suggests workers’ mistakes caused the collapse. Opening …
Workplace safety citations that Wyoming issued to two companies for an oil facility explosion that killed three workers last summer carry more than $34,000 in fines. The citations allege four violations by Tulsa, Okla.-based Samson Resources, carrying $19,800 in fines. …
Hawaii labor officials are blaming what they termed “unsafe working conditions” for an explosion that killed five men at a fireworks storage bunker earlier this year. The Department of Labor and Industrial Relations said in a report released Friday that …