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#1 Kentucky Factory Neighbors Cite Years of Odors Before Deadly Explosion

Nov 15 2024 // For years, neighbors who lived near a factory in Louisville, Kentucky, complained amongst themselves and to local officials about a variety of strange smells coming from the plant, which produces colorings for food and...

#2 Mother of Teen Killed at Mississippi Poultry Factory Sues Company for Negligence

Feb 8 2024 // (AP) — The mother of a 16-year-old who died in a workplace accident at a Mississippi poultry factory is suing the companies that hired and employed him, accusing them of failing to follow safety standards that could have...

#3 Tesla Beats Claim It Fired New York Factory Workers Amid Union Campaign

Dec 1 2023 // A U.S. labor board has dismissed claims that Tesla Inc. illegally fired employees working on Autopilot software at a New York factory to put an end to union organizing.A National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) regional...

#4 Judge Orders Pennsylvania Utility Board to Produce Chocolate Factory Blast Records

Apr 19 2024 // Pennsylvania utility regulators must turn over inspection records to the National Transportation Safety Board as part of the federal agency’s probe into a fatal explosion at a chocolate factory last year, a federal...

#5 Michigan Man Who Was Accidently Shot in Face With Ghost Gun Sues Manufacturer

Mar 15 2024 // A 19-year-old Michigan man who lost his right eye after being shot with a firearm made from a ghost gun kit filed a lawsuit against his former best friend who accidentally shot him and the Pennsylvania company that sold...

#6 Tennessee Investigating Plastics Factory Where Helene Flooding Killed 11 Workers

Oct 3 2024 // A Tennessee plastics factory kept workers going until it was too late to evacuate before Hurricane Helene flooding swamped the building, employees have said. Now, the company is likely facing liability lawsuits and...

#7 Federal Appeals Court Upholds Dismissal of Manufacturer’s COVID-19 Claims

Jul 16 2024 // A Connecticut-based manufacturer has been denied another opportunity to seek $100 million in insurance coverage for business losses it claims it sustained because of the COVID-19 virus.Amphenol Corp.– a manufacturer of...

#8 Manufacturers Hit by Soaring Property Insurance Costs

Aug 13 2024 // James Kirsh expects the cost of the property and casualty insurance for his family-owned foundry in Wisconsin that makes cast iron parts for tractors and other equipment to at least double when it’s up for renewal...

#9 Ex-CFO Says Royal Bank of Canada Manufactured Workplace-Romance Case

Sep 6 2024 // Royal Bank of Canada’s former chief financial officer, fired over allegations she had an undisclosed personal relationship with another executive, said the bank was trying to “manufacture” a reason to get...

#10 Japanese Authorities Inspect Second Kobayashi Pharma Factory After Deaths

Apr 2 2024 // Health authorities searched a second Kobayashi Pharmaceutical factory in western Japan on Sunday after the company reported five deaths possibly tied to dietary supplements, an official said.The inspection in Wakayama...

#11 Tesla Moves to Pause EEOC Lawsuit Alleging Race Bias at Factory

Dec 20 2023 // Tesla Inc has asked a U.S. judge to pause a federal agency’s lawsuit accusing the electric carmaker of severe harassment of Black workers at its California assembly plant, saying two similar cases should play out...

#12 100 Firefighters Battled Blaze at Former Singer Sewing Machine Factory

Jan 9 2024 // Over 100 firefighters battled a blaze last Friday at a New Jersey industrial park that was home to the Singer Sewing Machine factory for more than a century.A passerby reported the fire around 5:30 a.m., Mayor J. Christian...

#13 GE Vernova Blames Manufacturing Flaw for Vineyard Wind Offshore Blade Failure

Jul 26 2024 // A manufacturing flaw led to a turbine blade failure at the Vineyard Wind offshore project off the coast of Massachusetts this month, the part’s producer, GE Vernova, said on Wednesday.The turbine blade broke on July...

#14 Texas Home Manufacturers to Pay $135K to Settle Race Discrimination Suit

Apr 17 2024 // Cavco Industries, Inc.; Palm Harbor Homes, Inc.; and Palm Harbor Villages, Inc., which manufacture and sell manufactured homes in Waco, Texas, will pay $135,000 to settle a race discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S....

#15 NC Bill to Make Manufacturers Pay for ‘Forever Chemicals’ Advances in House

Jun 13 2024 // RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina’s top environmental regulator could order manufacturers of “forever chemicals” to help pay for water system cleanup upgrades whenever they are found responsible for...

#16 Manufacturer Faces $222K Fine for Worker’s Severe Burns at Ohio Facility

Jun 3 2024 // One of the world’s largest and best-known tool and equipment manufacturers could have prevented a 29-year-old maintenance electrician from suffering severe burns during an electrical arc blast at a company facility...

#17 Rescuers Find Body of Final Missing Tenn. Factory Worker Swept Away by Flooding

Nov 5 2024 // ERWIN, Tenn. (AP) — Rescue workers in Tennessee have recovered the body of the final person still missing after massive flooding from Hurricane Helene hit a plastics factory there.Rosa Andrade, 29, was one of six...

#18 Tesla Settles Factory Worker’s Sexual Harassment Lawsuit

May 14 2024 // Tesla has settled a lawsuit by a former factory employee who says she was fired for complaining about severe sexual harassment, as the electric carmaker faces a series of sex and race discrimination lawsuits.U.S. District...

#19 Texas Manufacturer Faces $257K Fine for Workers’ Injuries

Oct 25 2024 // Federal workplace safety investigators have determined that a Temple, Texas manufacturer and designer of school furnishings could have prevented an employee’s serious and permanent hand and arm injuries by installing...

#20 Texas Manufacturer to Pay $35K for Denying Job to Applicant with Opioid Use Disorder

May 23 2024 // The Modern Group, Ltd. (TMG), headquartered in Beaumont, Texas, and one of its subsidiaries, Dragon Rig Sales and Service, LLC, a manufacturing and service company which builds oilfield service equipment for energy and...