Sugar Land-based Imperial Sugar has reached a settlement with federal regulators seeking to fine the company for safety violations after a 2008 explosion at its Georgia refinery killed 14 workers near Savannah, GA. The Feb. 7, 2008, explosion killed 14 workers and injured 36. Investigators determined that dangerous levels of…
The 2005 BP plant disaster in Texas City has taken on new relevance, because the investigations that were done in its aftermath reveal so much about the company that is responsible for what’s happening now in the Gulf. Government probes, court filings and BP’s own confidential investigations paint a picture…
Natural gas utilities might have to dig up neighborhoods across Texas to replace hundreds of thousands of steel service lines to prevent explosions. The Texas Railroad Commissioner will propose that utilities replace the lines, which bring natural gas from pipelines under neighborhood streets to homes. Texas has at least 525,000…
Utility provider PG&E has agreed to pay $5 million to the mother of a 20-year-old woman who was killed in a car accident involving one of the company drivers. Mary Bernstein and a friend were killed in the wreck in 2006 when John Mayfield, a diabetic, blacked out a the…
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On the front page of its Business Day section, the New York Times (7/7, B1, Greenhouse) reports, “Wal-Mart Stores has spent a year and more than a million dollars in legal fees battling a $7,000 fine that federal safety officials assessed after shoppers trampled a Wal-Mart employee to death at…
A Maryland jury awarded $2.025 million to the family of an inmate who was hit by a truck and killed while he was picking up trash on work detail in 2007. According to the lawsuit, Rodney Jennings was crushed by a speeding dump truck that was exiting the highway he…
The Minneapolis Star Tribune (6/23, Levy) reports on a case before the Minnesota Court of Appeals in which Burlington Northern Santa Fe is appealing “a record $21.6 million” verdict awarded “to the families of four young people killed in a 2003 train-car accident in Anoka,” MN. BNSF attorney Sam Hanson…
ABC World News (6/28, story 7, 2:20, Sawyer) reported, “Two major studies have found the medicine called Avandia [rosiglitazone] could create a significant new risk of heart attack and other serious problems.” The Washington Post (6/29, Stein) reports that one study, “involving more than 35,500 people, found that Avandia significantly…
A lawsuit has been filed against the University of Cincinnati police and the University Hospital in the Taser death of a psychiatric patient. Kelly Brinson was tased by police officers while under restraints at the hospital, the lawsuit claims, sending him into cardiac arrest and killing him three days later.…