The federal government will temporarily take control of parts of Hawaii’s authority to regulate workplace safety. In response to federal concern to staff reductions in the Hawaii Occupational Safety and Health Division, the state has agreed to let the Occupational …
Jurors say California’s transportation agency is partly responsible for a dangerous stretch of highway dubbed “Blood Alley” and a severely injured motorcyclist should get more than $31 million. The San Bernardino County jury decided on Thursday that the California Department …
Los Alamos National Laboratory significantly underestimated how much radiation could leak from the nation’s premier plutonium lab after a major earthquake and fire, a federal oversight panel concluded. The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board recently sent lab officials a report …
BP Plc on Thursday agreed to pay $13 million to settle safety violations at its Texas City, Texas refinery, paving the way for a sale of the refinery by the London-based energy company. The settlement struck with the U.S. Occupational …
FBI divers and police officials in New York are working to retrieve a yacht that capsized and sank, killing three children.
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission says a Canadian company has agreed to take steps to improve safety after three workers were exposed to yellowcake from Wyoming. Yellowcake is a form of uranium that has been mined but not yet processed …
The man operating a yacht full of fireworks-watchers that capsized off New York’s Long Island on the Fourth of July, killing three children, said Thursday the vessel was slammed by a wave. Sal Aurelino told TV’s News12 Long Island that …
The Nevada Department of Transportation is considering safety improvements at some railroad crossings on roads with fast speed limits, including the site of last year’s deadly crash between an Amtrak passenger train and a tractor-trailer that killed six and injured …
Authorities say a construction worker was killed in an eastern Missouri freeway work zone when a loaded asphalt truck backed over him. The Missouri State Highway Patrol did not immediately identify the the man killed at the scene of the …
A skier says a Vermont ski resort is at fault for his injuries. Alfred Rocks of Egg Harbor, N.J., sued Killington Ski Area, saying it failed to maintain a trail in a “reasonably safe condition” when Rocks suffered leg fractures …
