The death of 30 workers in one accident was the largest-single toll in at least a decade for the company.Only about one-sixth of those killed and half the 46 injured were Pemex employees. The rest worked for a half-dozen private companies doing operational and maintenance work at the station, which is next door to a [...]
U.S. regulators’ failure to shut down discount bus operator Sky Express Inc. after finding extensive safety violations was a contributing cause of a fatal 2011 crash, the National Transportation Safety Board ruled. Sky Express, which was based in Charlotte, North Carolina, and operated from Manhattan’s Chinatown neighborhood, was closed days after the early morning May [...]
An overheated electrical cord is suspected as the cause of a fire in an attic apartment in a multi-family residence on Locust Avenue, according to the Port Chester Fire Department. While the fire was determined to be an accident, firefighters said there were numerous safety violations found, including the lack of working smoke detectors in [...]
The panel listed a litany of problems large and small they had already uncovered even though it has not received all of the records from Transocean, the drilling contractor that has challenged the board’s right to investigate the offshore incident.Among the panel’s findings:— BP and Transocean’s “bridging document,” designed to align safety procedures between the [...]
A New York City bus crash that killed 15 people last year was probably caused by driver fatigue, the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board said, recommending steps to limit bus speeds and strengthen company oversight. The safety board’s probe focused on the driver, Ophadell Williams, who lost control of a motorcoach on its way back [...]
