(WHTM) — Cascading failures involving a corroded steam pipe and a defective natural gas fitting caused a powerful explosion in 2023 at a Pennsylvania chocolate factory, killing seven workers when the ...

Twelve years have passed since the Rana Plaza building collapse in Bangladesh killed 1,138 people and injured more. However, garment industry workers and advocates say major fashion brands are still ...

In decades past, the rigid, mechanical movements of traditional robots were confined to segregated sectors in factories. Their function was fixed, and their interactions were limited. Enter the cobot ...

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SEOUL — The workers never stood a chance. Security video from a lithium battery factory south of Seoul in the city of Hwaseong on Monday morning shows a puff of smoke as one worker scrambles to move ...

It was on the morning of April 24, 2013, when the multi-factory building known as Rana Plaza imploded on the outskirts of Dhaka in Bangladesh. The collapse, which killed more than 1,130 garment ...

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The government identified some 850 factories as being at "extreme risk" of fire, electrical, and structural accidents long ago, but a nationwide monitoring and safety initiative has stalled for the ...

After a factory fire killed 112 garment workers in November, clothing brands and retailers continued to reject a union-sponsored proposal to improve safety throughout Bangladesh’s $20 billion garment ...

BYD is accelerating its push into the European market. The world’s largest new energy vehicle (NEV) manufacturer made several ...

In this screen grab from video provided by WPVI-TV/6ABC, smoke rises from an explosion at the R.M. Palmer Co. plant in West Reading, Pa., Friday, March 24, 2023. (WPVI-TV/6ABC via AP) Cascading ...