Aging infrastructure is making more plants susceptible to accidents. Many are repeat offenders.

Hazardous chemical releases from industrial accidents that injured or killed people increased by more than 50 percent in ...

Authorities in Washington said they recovered the bodies of seven employees on May 28 and 29. Another two are still unaccounted for and are not expected to be found alive.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Crews spray water on an overheating tank at GKN Aerospace on May 23, 2026 in Garden Grove, California. The tank holds methyl ...

Two major incidents at chemical plants in one week have intensified scrutiny of the Trump Administration's push to gut chemical safety regulations.

The U.S. Chemical Safety Hazard and Investigation Board, or CSB, investigates root causes of serious chemical accidents and makes recommendations for preventing similar events. The Trump ...

Critics are outraged that the Trump administration is moving to roll back chemical safety rules even as the U.S. faces deadly industrial chemical incidents. Last week, in Washington state, a ...

You might think that everything would have changed for the chemicals industry on April 16, 1947. That was the day of the Texas City Disaster, the worst industrial accident in U.S. history. A ship ...

Spill Response Team vehicle sits parked in front of the Nippon Dynawave Packaging facility following a fatal chemical storage tank implosion on May 26, 2026 in Longview, Washington. —Mathieu ...