It is one of the worst industrial accidents in the state's history. In the worst mining disaster in American history, an underground explosion kills 362 out of the 380 men and boys working that day.

Forty years ago, on the night of Sunday 2 December of 1984, people in the city of Bhopal and surrounding communities were ...

Just a day before the first anniversary of one of China’s worst industrial accidents in history, a high pressure steam-pipe at a power station in central China exploded during testing ...

Source: Rolls Press/Popperfoto/Getty Images It a story that begins with the collapse of the West Gate Bridge in 1970 and the deaths of 35 workers in Australia’s worst industrial accident.

The Bhopal gas tragedy is considered one of the world's worst industrial disasters. On the intervening night of December 2 and 3, 1984, a Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal, India ...

The death toll makes it one of the country's worst industrial accidents in recent years. The blast happened at about 14:50 local time (06:50 GMT) on Thursday at a plant in Yancheng, run by ...

The incident, one of the worst industrial accidents in the nation's history, could also be the deadliest single workplace disaster in terms of migrant worker fatalities. The blaze erupted at the ...

The cavalier treatment of ordinary people in India has echoes here in South Africa. It is sobering to realise that one of the worst industrial accidents in history occurred just over 40 years ago in ...