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About 2,000 food service workers at SoFi Stadium ratified a new contract 99% in favor on June 11, 2026, five days after voting 96% to authorize a strike. The contract includes wages above $40 per hour and an explicit right to strike if ICE or Border Patrol activity at the worksite threatens worker safety.
Hardwood logs stacked at a logging operation (file photo). Photo: Anne LaBastille / U.S. National Archives (DOCUMERICA) (Public domain).
Michael D. Martin, 73, of Mannington, West Virginia, was killed in an industrial accident at Appalachian Forest Products in Buckhannon on June 9, 2026. The Upshur County Sheriff's Office and workplace safety agencies are investigating.
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Trino Saucedo Lechuga, 64, was struck and crushed by an excavator bucket while working in a ditch at the Tahoe Reno Industrial Center in Storey County, Nevada. The Storey County Sheriff's Office and Nevada OSHA are investigating.
A worker was killed at Industrial Warehouse Services in Anderson County, S.C. on June 2 when a pallet of rubber tipped over during unloading. OSHA and local authorities are investigating.
Eleven workers were killed after a 900,000-gallon chemical tank imploded at the Nippon Dynawave Packaging mill in Longview, Washington. Gov. Bob Ferguson called it the deadliest industrial accident in modern state history.
A 34,000-gallon methyl methacrylate tank at the GKN Aerospace facility in Garden Grove, California began to off-gas and bulge after a refrigeration valve failed. Roughly 50,000 residents were ordered to evacuate.
Enrique Cerroblanco Aguilar, 39, of Carpentersville, fell from a roof at a Palatine, Illinois construction site on May 22 and was killed. OSHA opened an investigation.
A garden-style apartment complex (file photo). Premises-liability claims over inadequate security most often arise at multifamily residential properties. Photo: Alfred Twu / Wikimedia Commons (CC0).
InvestigationsA crime happens at a commercial property. The police investigate the criminal. But the second question — could the property owner have prevented this? — is the one that drives negligent security litigation.
An Amazon fulfillment center in Troutdale, Oregon (file photo). Photo: Tedder / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Corporate AccountabilityA 46-year-old Amazon worker collapsed and died at the PDX9 warehouse in Troutdale, Oregon on April 6. The death was not publicly disclosed for more than a week.
An Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 MAX 9 on the ramp (file photo). Photo: Boeing / Addison Salzman via Wikimedia Commons (CC0).
Corporate AccountabilityThe NTSB determined Boeing's inadequate training and oversight caused the 737 MAX 9 door plug blowout. FAA audits found systemic quality failures. But accountability remains limited.
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An Ozempic (semaglutide) injection pen with North American English-language labeling, the product at the center of MDL 3094. Photo: Dennis Sylvester Hurd / Wikimedia Commons (CC0).
LawsuitsNovo Nordisk, Eli Lilly · Eastern District of Pennsylvania (MDL 3094)
Failure to warn of severe gastrointestinal injuries including gastroparesis, bowel obstruction, and NAION vision loss
A stylist applies a chemical hair relaxer to a client. More than 11,500 women allege in MDL 3060 that long-term use of chemical hair relaxers caused uterine, ovarian, and endometrial cancer. Photo: Envato Elements.
LawsuitsL'Oréal, Revlon, Strength of Nature, Namaste Laboratories · Northern District of Illinois (MDL 3060)
Failure to warn that long-term hair relaxer use is linked to uterine and ovarian cancer
Welcome sign at the Holcomb Gate entrance to Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune in North Carolina, the installation at the center of the 1953–1987 water-contamination litigation (file photo, 2008). Photo: U.S. Marine Corps via DVIDS (Public domain).
LawsuitsUnited States of America · Eastern District of North Carolina
Contaminated drinking water at Camp Lejeune (1953-1987) linked to cancers and serious illnesses among veterans, families, and civilian workers
The Thomas F. Eagleton U.S. Courthouse in St. Louis, a federal court venue for multidistrict litigation (file photo). Photo: U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri via Wikimedia Commons (Public domain).
LawsuitsMultiple defendants · Multiple federal and state courts
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