LABOR ACCOUNTABILITY
Teamsters Local 512 and Durham School Services reached an agreement late Friday night, averting a potential strike by 275 school bus drivers in Jacksonville. Drivers had voted overwhelmingly to authorize a strike on August 4 after the company proposed what the union described as sweeping concessions to wages, benefits, and workplace protections.
A wood-products mill in Morton, Washington (representative file photo — not the Pacific Veneer mill in Aberdeen). Photo: Chris Light / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Dara Phin, 45, of Aberdeen died July 30 after being injured while operating machinery at Pacific Veneer in Aberdeen, Washington. The Grays Harbor County Coroner''s Office and Aberdeen police are investigating.
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The Occupational Safety and Health Administration proposed $794,456 in fines against Woodland Pulp in Baileyville, Maine on July 30 after hydrogen sulfide gas killed two workers earlier this year. OSHA classified four of the citations as willful.
A worker died July 29 at a Bridge Builders of Alabama facility in Clanton, Chilton County after being struck and pinned by two pieces of heavy machinery. The Chilton County Sheriff''s Office is investigating.
A worker died Friday at a UPS distribution hub in Horsham Township, Pennsylvania, after his head was pinned between a tractor-trailer and a loading dock. Police are investigating.
Lederiest Antwon Clark, 37, died Tuesday morning at Mill Steel Company in north Birmingham after being struck by a steel coil. OSHA opened a fatality investigation the same afternoon; no citation findings have been issued.
A construction worker was found unresponsive in a confined ceiling space at the Denver Broncos' new training facility on June 15. Turner Construction halted work. OSHA and the Arapahoe County Coroner are investigating.
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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