Latest Manufacturing Headlines
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NFL Football-Maker Wilson Fined $65K for Safety Violations at Ohio Factory
Sep 25 2017 // An Ohio factory that makes footballs for the National Football League has been fined by federal regulators over workplace safety violations. Wilson Sporting Goods is facing more than $65,000 in fines after two inspections...
Drugs in Workplace a Danger to Workers and Drag on Productivity
Sep 22 2017 // At Philip Tulkoff’s food-processing plant in Baltimore, machines grind tough horseradish roots into puree. “If you put your arm in the wrong place,” the owner says, “and you’re not paying...
FEMA Not Relying on Trailers to House Hurricane Victims
Sep 20 2017 // The hurricanes that battered Texas and Florida have likely spawned the worst disaster-created housing crisis since Hurricane Katrina left hundreds of thousands of Gulf Coast residents without homes more than a decade...
How One German Company Is Making Workplace Robots Safer for Humans
Sep 18 2017 // Two years ago, a robot crushed a 22-year-old man to death at a Volkswagen AG factory in Germany after the maintenance worker became trapped in an area usually off-bound to humans. While this type of tragedy is still...
New Mexico Sues 8 Drug Manufacturers, Distributors over Opioid Epidemic
Sep 11 2017 // New Mexico has sued eight opioid manufacturers and wholesale distributors, becoming the latest state or local government to file a lawsuit seeking to hold corporations accountable for a national drug addiction...
HDI Launches Cyber Coverage for Manufacturing Companies
Sep 8 2017 // International insurer HDI Global Insurance Company (HDI) has introduced a new cyber product, Cyber+ Smart, designed to support the manufacturing sector. Cyber+ Smart is designed for U.S. enterprises with annual revenues of...
UK Economy Begins to Feel Brexit Pinch – or Perhaps Brexit Punch
Aug 25 2017 // Britain’s economy is beginning to feel the Brexit pinch, or perhaps given the strong performance of the rest of the world economy, it should be punch. After a prolonged period of relatively benign economic numbers...
Michigan WWII Bomber Site Gears Up for Driverless Demos in December
Aug 21 2017 // Self-driving cars will begin taking test laps this December on the site of a famous World War II airplane factory in Michigan where Rosie the Riveter helped produce a shiny B-24 Liberator bomber every hour more than seven...
Taiwan Power Outages Disrupt Some Semiconductor Manufacturing
Aug 16 2017 // A blackout caused by a blunder at Taiwan’s biggest gas-fired plant is the latest challenge to an electricity grid recently pushed to its limit and to President Tsai Ing-wen’s efforts to reshape the...
Indiana RV Manufacturer Fined $10K after Worker’s Forklift Death
Jul 31 2017 // State regulators have fined a northern Indiana recreational vehicle manufacturer $10,000 for safety violations discovered following a worker’s April death. Fifty-four-year-old Ricky Schlabach died of blunt force...
Houston Manufacturer Sued for Race Discrimination
Jul 25 2017 // Federal officials have sued Champion Fiberglass Inc., a Houston-area manufacturing company, saying the company violated federal anti-discrimination laws by engaging in systemic discrimination against non-Hispanic...
Australia Watchdog Examines if Recalled Air Bags Were Replaced by Faulty Devices
Jul 25 2017 // Australia’s consumer watchdog said on Monday it was urgently seeking information from the government regulator and car manufacturers after a magazine reported that recalled Takata air bags were being replaced by...
Ride-Hail Firm Lyft Enters Race to Manufacture Autonomous Cars
Jul 24 2017 // Ride-hailing provider Lyft Inc., emboldened by public stumbles by larger rival Uber Technologies Inc., is taking the leap into developing its own fully autonomous vehicles. Lyft is opening a self-driving vehicle...
Idaho Manure Pond Deaths Raise Concerns About Farmworker Safety
Jul 18 2017 // It was still dark the morning Ruperto Vazquez-Carrera began his shift at Sunrise Organic Dairy in Idaho. It was mid-February 2016. A winter heat wave had melted snow and ice overnight, flooding part of the rural Jerome...
Does Consumer Watchdog Founder Want Asimov-like Rules for Robot Cars?
Jul 10 2017 // Powered by InsuranceJournal.tv A virtual grin arose on the face of Harvey Rosenfield with the mention of Isaac Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics. The mention was made during a phone call, but the overwhelming...
Oklahoma AG Sues Prescription Opioid Drug Manufacturers
Jul 6 2017 // Oklahoma Attorney General Mike Hunter has joined the ranks of state attorneys general who have sued manufacturers of opioid pain medication, alleging that deceptive marketing campaigns by the drug makers have fueled the...
Auto Insurance Market to Shrink by 70% by 2050: KPMG
Jun 29 2017 // Autonomous vehicle technology, a rise in on-demand transportation and a shifting of liability to manufacturers will shrink the auto insurance sector by more than 70 percent or $137 billion by 2050, according to updated...
Missouri Becomes 3rd State to Sue Opioid Manufacturers
Jun 23 2017 // Missouri on June 21 became the third U.S. state to accuse major drug manufacturers of fraudulently misrepresenting the risks of opioid painkillers now at the center of a national addiction epidemic. Missouri Attorney...
3 Tennessee Prosecutors Join Forces in Suit Against Opioid Drug Makers
Jun 19 2017 // A new lawsuit invokes the plight of a baby born dependent on opioid drugs, as three Tennessee prosecutors and the baby’s guardian accuse several drug manufacturers of unleashing an epidemic through deceptive...
5 Killed at Orlando Factory by Fired Worker
Jun 7 2017 // A recently fired worker from an awning company in Florida followed through with a plan to kill his former colleagues, singling out five and fatally shooting them in the head before taking his own life, authorities...
