Archives: Incidents
Filter tag: Negligence(clear filter)
Date | Company | Accusation | City / Area / Country | Source | Tags | Media |
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12/08/2010 | BP (Beyond Petroleum) | Failure to correct 270 violations after 2005 Texas City explosion -$50.6 million; $30m still contested for 439 "new wilful violations" | Texas City, TX, United States | US Department of Labor, BBC | Negligence, Occupational Hazard | |
01/01/2002 - 01/01/1980 | (Shell (Royal Dutch Shell)) (BASF SE) | BASF and Shell to pay compensation for health treatment to 1,068 former workers after prolonged exposure to toxic chemicals at pesticide plant. Labor prosecutors say chemical contamination killed 60 workers - $316 million. | São Paulo - State of São Paulo, Brazil | Reuters | Deaths, Injuries & Diseases, Negligence | |
31/12/2014 - 01/01/2014 | Shell (Royal Dutch Shell) | Shell reported 204 Niger Delta oil spills in 2014. | Niger Delta, Rivers, Nigeria | Amnesty International | Negligence, Pollution | |
01/03/2016 | Shell (Royal Dutch Shell) | Two new legal cases launched against the oil giant Shell over damage caused to the environment in Nigeria from repeated large scale oil spills. | Ogoni, Rivers, Nigeria | Leigh Day | Negligence, Pollution | |
23/02/2016 | Johnson & Johnson | J & J ordered to pay damages for woman's death from ovarian cancer linked to her use of the company's talcum-based Baby Powder and Shower to Shower for several decades - $72 million | Birmingham, Alabama, United States | Reuters | Consumer Deception, Deaths, Fraud, Negligence |