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Investigators Find Washington Chemical Tank Called Unfit for Service Before Deadly Failure
An inspection contractor found a chemical tank at a Washington state paper mill "not fit for continued service" 10 months before it failed in May, killing 11 in one of the deadliest U.S. workplace ...
Steep Declines in Child Restraint Use Prompt AAA Safety Reminder
New analysis of nationwide crash data finds that child safety seat and booster seat use declines sharply with age, starting when kids are just 3 years old, according to AAA. Between 2020 and 2024, ...
Behind every commercial or residential property in a regional insurer’s portfolio are people relying on their carrier to remain resilient...
AI-Driven Cyber Risk Is Top Concern for Global Financial Stability, Watchdog Says
Financial Stability Board Chair Andrew Bailey said on Monday that the impact of AI on cyber risk was the most immediate concern for the global financial system, saying the technology could change the ...
Produce Supplier Taylor Farms Often Failed to Disclose Workplace Injury Tallies: Report
Taylor Farms, the produce company at the center of a U.S. cyclospora outbreak, frequently failed to submit federally required workplace injury logs in recent years, including for at least four ...
Insurance Industry Employee Confidence Tanks on AI Concerns: Report
A new report highlights insurance industry employees' growing negativity toward AI job displacement, as sector employment dropped 21% YoY, and entry-level adjuster positions dropped 50% YoY. ...
Major Tech Companies Call for Cyber Defense Priority to Defeat AI-Driven Hacks
Major tech companies including OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft, Alphabet, and Amazon are calling for a society-wide defensive surge to defeat what they describe as an impending wave of hacks driven by ...
World Inches Toward Catastrophic Climate Events: ‘Bigger Shocks Are On the Way’
In the opening scene of American writer Kim Stanley Robinson's "The Ministry for the Future," a heat wave combined with a breakdown of the electrical grid in India kills 20 million people. The ...
Police Reports Undercount Cellphone Use Before Crashes: Study
A new study drawing on telematics data confirms that far more drivers are using cellphones in the lead-up to crashes than is reflected in police reports, according to the Insurance Institute for ...