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South Korea Halts Battery Maker’s Operations as It Probes Deadly Blaze

South Korean authorities ordered a halt on Wednesday to the operations of a manufacturer of lithium batteries after a fire killed 23 people, as they investigate three company officials for suspected safety violations. Monday’s fire at unlisted battery maker Aricell …

Deadly Explosion in Korea Revives Concerns Over Battery Safety

A deadly factory blaze has revived concerns over battery safety in South Korea, a key global supplier of lithium-ion cells used in everything from electric vehicles to energy storage systems. The fire and a series of explosions at a lithium …

Blaze at South Korea Lithium Battery Plant Kills 22 Workers

A lithium battery factory in South Korea was set on fire after multiple batteries exploded on Monday, killing 22 workers, most of them Chinese nationals, fire officials said. The fire and a series of explosions ripped through the factory run …

Judge Orders Pennsylvania Utility Board to Produce Chocolate Factory Blast Records

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 judge ruled this week. U.S. District Judge …

OSHA Fines Pennsylvania Candy Factory for Not Evacuating Before Fatal Explosion

A Pennsylvania chocolate factory was fined more than $44,000 by the federal workplace safety agency on Thursday for failing to evacuate before a natural gas explosion that killed seven people. R.M. Palmer Co. did not heed warnings from employees about …

Workers Recall ‘Rotten Egg’ Smell Before Chocolate Factory Blast

Workers at a Pennsylvania chocolate factory smelled “rotten eggs” before a powerful natural gas explosion that leveled one building, heavily damaged another and killed seven people, federal safety officials said Tuesday in a preliminary report. The National Transportation Safety Board’s …

Chocolate Factory Blast a Deadly Reminder of Combustion Risks

Last week’s fatal blast at a Pennsylvania chocolate factory highlighted the combustibility of food plants in general and chocolate making in particular. The powerful explosion at 75-year-old R.M. Palmer Co. – which makes chocolate eggs, bunnies, bars, coins and other …

Wreckage Complicates Job of Investigators of Chocolate Factory Deadly Blast

Investigators looking for the cause of a deadly explosion that leveled part of a Pennsylvania chocolate factory faced an even more difficult task Monday as they combed through wreckage that was extensively picked apart and moved around during the intensive …

7 Bodies Recovered From Site of Pennsylvania Chocolate Factory Explosion

WEST READING, Pa. (AP) – All seven bodies have been recovered from the site of a powerful explosion at a chocolate factory in a small town in eastern Pennsylvania, officials said. West Reading Mayor Samantha Kaag said in a statement …

Eight Injured in Chocolate Factory Blast in Pennsylvania

WEST READING, Pa. (AP) – Firefighters battled a blaze in Pennsylvania Friday after an explosion at a chocolate factory injured eight people and sent a plume of black smoke into the air above West Reading. Berks County fire crews remained …