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A chemical plant accident can have catastrophic consequences. Loss of life and people who otherwise suffer severe, even debilitating injuries oftentimes stem from these types of disasters. A federal governmental agency known as the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board exists to promptly investigate chemical plant accidents and prepare detail reports on why an incident occurred, including an explosion accident. Unfortunately, the investigatory agency has fallen what some describe as hopelessly behind in its work to ascertain the cause…

The horrific Philadelphia Energy Solutions oil refinery explosion of June 21, 2019 had the potential of becoming a total calamity, according to investigators from the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board or CSB. As it was, the disaster was somewhat contained but nonetheless pointed to larger problems that surround the prospect of other oil refinery explosion incidents in the United States. Investigators from the CSB have just issued their report on the catastrophe in March 2021. The Philadelphia Energy…

Two more young men were killed in fraternity hazing incidents in the United States in March 2021. These deaths are among a growing number of college students who’ve lost their lives or been seriously injured as the result of hazing incidents associated with fraternities, sororities, and other organizations on campuses across the United States. Four separate types of entities in the United States have taken steps allegedly designed to bring an end to dangerous fraternity hazing and hazing associated with…

A construction accident took the life of a man working on residential development project in the New York Hudson Valley community of Woodbury in Orange County. The 43-year-old worker was digging in a 10-foot trench at the construction site. The trench collapsed on the man, burying him. Rescue attempts failed to extract him from the collapsed trench before he died. The worker was pronounced dead at the scene by emergency medical personnel. His name has not been released to the…

Yet again, a Hollywood powerhouse is the center of a brewing sexual assault storm of rapidly escalating proportions. The star of such popular and critically acclaimed films as The Social Network, J. Edgar, and On the Basis of Sex (in which he portrayed Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s husband), Armie Hammer has been named in another shocking sexual assault claim. The actor had a film from Disney slated for release later this year. In light of the latest sexual assault allegations made…