Industrial Accidents

Penford and Novomer will Partner to Drive Development and Commercialization of Innovative Sustainable Packaging Materials CENTENNIAL, Colo. -- Penford Corporation, a company with significant business and expertise in specialty starches and sustainable bio-products...

CENTENNIAL, Colo. -- Penford Corporation (NASDAQ: PENX) announced that on January 11, 2012, it completed the acquisition of the businesses operated by Carolina Starches, LLC and a related entity, Keystone Starches, LLC. These...

Hyatt Continues India Growth in 2012 with Opening of Six New Hotels in Bangalore, Chennai, Hampi, Hyderabad, Pune and Raipur CHICAGO -- Hyatt Hotels Corporation (NYSE: H) announced today the introduction of its...

Company posts record $90.7 million revenue for the quarter, up 26% from the prior year. Gross margin expands 28% from last year to $11.8 million. Operating income improves 47% from a year ago...

Project Meets Construction Schedule and is Under Budget LAKEWOOD, Colo. -- ZeaChem Inc., a developer of biorefineries for the conversion of renewable biomass into sustainable fuels and chemicals, today announced it has completed...

VANCOUVER, British Columbia -- Westridge Resources Inc. ("Westridge" or the "Company") is pleased to announce it plans a further diamond drilling program on its Charay project, located near the seaside city of Los...

To celebrate Workforce Management's 90th anniversary, we're running a series of articles looking at important workforce-related issues with a now-and-then theme. The first installment deals with workplace safety in the 1920s and today....

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Pegasystems has announced the release of its Incident Management solution. The new solution is said to give energy organizations more control, better visibility and improved resolution times to industrial accidents, unplanned...

ALPHA NATURAL Resources Inc. agreed to pay nearly $210 million in penalties as part of a settlement to resolve a range of civil and criminal penalties linked to the explosion at the Upper...

HEADNOTE Deadliest accident in 40 years was "entirely preventable" THE US. MINE Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) issued its final report on the April 5, 2010 explosion at the Upper Big Branch (UBB)...

In April 2010, Barack Obama convinced leaders from forty-seven countries to meet in Washington and discuss a topic to which most had previously paid scarce attention: securing vulnerable nuclear materials. Most of these...

For nearly 10 years, Utah Business has published the Legal Elite list showcasing the state's best-of-the-best lawyers. Our goal has been to publish a meaningful and credible Legal Elite list--a list that Utah's...

Rostekhnadzor detects over 5,700 violations at Russian oil refineries Russia's Federal Ecological, Technological and Nuclear Oversight Agency (Rostekhnadzor) has detected over 5,000 violations in operations at Russian oil refineries, the head of the...

Just a few days after a federal agency released a report concluding the 2010 Upper Big Branch mine disaster that killed 29 miners was preventable, a new mine safety bill has been introduced...

VANCOUVER, British Columbia -- Westridge Resources Inc. ("Westridge" or the "Company") is pleased to announce it has closed the first tranche of its previously announced non-brokered private placement (news releases dated September 20,...

COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho -- Coeur d'Alene Mines Corporation (NYSE: CDE) (TSX: CDM) reports that the state district court in Pershing County, Nevada granted, in part, Coeur Rochester's motion for a preliminary injunction against...

TOKYO (ICIS)--Japan's production of polyvinyl chloride (PVC) fell by 11% to 107,748 tonnes in November from the previous month, Vinyl Environmental Council (VEC) announced at a press conference on Wednesday....

Inter RAO could build three CHP plants in Germany Russia's Inter RAO is discussing the construction of three combined heat and power plants in Germany with Switzerland's Alpeq and Germany's Thoga, Stephan Kohler,...

VANCOUVER, British Columbia -- Westridge Resources Inc. ("Westridge" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that it has entered into a service agreement with Investor Cubed Inc. ("Investor Cubed") to provide investor relations...