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Deadly Fire at Assisted Living Facility Prompts Massachusetts Safety Reforms

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Deadly Fire at Assisted Living Facility Prompts Massachusetts Safety Reforms

Massachusetts is enacting a series of safety reforms at assisted living facilities including increased inspections and better access to records following a fire last year that killed 10 residents, the governor announced Monday. The recommendations, detailed in a report from the Assisted Living Residents or ARL commission tasked with reviewing the sector, call for annual […]

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Railroads and Their Regulators Thwart Safety Fixes, Analysis Finds

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Hundreds May Have Been Exposed to Rabies in Grand Teton National Park Cabins

Human errors and track defects caused more than 3,000 rail accidents over the last decade, killing 23 people and injuring nearly 1,200. Yet federal railroad regulators failed to implement most of the safety recommendations that emerged from accident investigations. That’s according to an original analysis by the Howard Center for Investigative Journalism at the University

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Companies Work to Handle Safety Challenges of New Venezuelan Oil Exports: Sources

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Companies Work to Handle Safety Challenges of New Venezuelan Oil Exports: Sources

Oil companies aiming to participate in new exports of Venezuelan crude to the U.S. following the ouster of President Nicolas Maduro are in hasty discussions to find tankers and put together operations to transfer the crude safely from vessels and dilapidated Venezuelan ports, four sources familiar with the operations said. Trading houses and oil companies,

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Fire Safety Inspections Lapsed for Years at Swiss Bar Where 40 Died in New Year’s Blaze

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Fire Safety Inspections Lapsed for Years at Swiss Bar Where 40 Died in New Year’s Blaze

Fire safety inspections hadn’t been carried out since 2019 at the Swiss bar where a fire at a New Year’s party left 40 people dead and over 100 injured, local authorities said Tuesday. Investigators have said they believe sparkling candles atop Champagne bottles ignited the fire at Le Constellation in the resort town of Crans-Montana

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Oil Tankers Sail From Venezuela With no Flag or Safety Documents, Shipping Data Show

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Oil Tankers Sail From Venezuela With no Flag or Safety Documents, Shipping Data Show

Tankers loaded with Venezuelan crude and fuel that left the country’s waters in recent days are sailing in international waters without a known flag or ship safety documentation in place, shipping data showed. The location of the vessels is unknown since they left Venezuelan waters. All commercial ships have to be registered, or flagged, with

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Mexico Train Derailment Piles Pressure on Sheinbaum Over Safety of Megaprojects

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Mexico Train Derailment Piles Pressure on Sheinbaum Over Safety of Megaprojects

Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum deferred questions on Tuesday about the record of a passenger train that derailed over the weekend, killing 13 people and injuring 98 others, the latest in a series of accidents that have put pressure on her government to improve the safety of flagship projects. The conductor of the train, who survived,

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Hawaii Building Fires Are on the Rise and Safety Inspections Aren’t Keeping Up

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Hundreds May Have Been Exposed to Rabies in Grand Teton National Park Cabins

Regular inspections of hotels and other accommodations required by the state of Hawaii are being inconsistently carried out by most county fire departments. Three people died in two structure fires in Hilo on Hawaii island in October and November in a downtown hotel and in a factory illegally converted to rentals, neither of which had

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