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A 55-year-old worker in Carol Stream, Illinois was killed when an overhead crane gave way while he loaded a large metal spool onto a flatbed truck. OSHA opened an investigation.
Dollar General agreed to pay $12 million to settle OSHA investigations spanning years of repeated violations — blocked emergency exits, inaccessible fire extinguishers, and a pattern of willful disregard for worker and customer safety.
A farmworker at Evans Farm in Bridgeville, Delaware was killed when several thousand tons of soybeans broke free after he opened a grain bin side cover. It was the state's first grain bin fatality in nearly two decades.
A Baltimore jury has ordered Johnson & Johnson to pay $1.5 billion to a single plaintiff who developed mesothelioma from decades of baby powder use — the largest individual talc verdict in the litigation's history.
The CPSC reissued the Casely power bank recall in April 2026 after a 75-year-old New Jersey woman died when the device exploded in her lap. 429,200 units are affected, and reports of fires keep coming in.
Kevin Lancaster, 61, died of blunt traumatic compressional injuries after being pinned between a tractor trailer and a loading dock at a Rivian warehouse in Illinois. OSHA opened a six-month investigation.
Two coal miners died in separate West Virginia incidents in less than a day. MSHA opened investigations at both Panther Eagle in Raleigh County and the Ohio County Mine in Marshall County.
Griffin Darrow, 25, of Cincinnati, died of smoke inhalation in a February fire and explosion at the Koch Foods plant in Fairfield, Ohio. OSHA opened an investigation.
A March 18 Union Pacific derailment near Richmond, Texas, released about 120,000 gallons of ethanol from seven breached tank cars. The NTSB preliminary report is out.
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