Workers on the night shift at the E.I. du Pont de Nemours insecticide plant in La Porte acted as they were instructed when high-pressure alarms flashed on their computer screen: They drained valves ...

Karl Stevens, DuPont automation and process controls engineer designer. Considering the company’s origins in the manufacture of gun powder, safety has played a large role in DuPont’s operations over ...

Unions representing DuPont and Chemours employees have threatened to pursue regulatory actions against the companies, saying their safety experts have been barred from reviewing plant conditions ...

"Our investigation revealed a long chain of failures which resulted in this fatal event, including deferring much-needed process improvements, improvements that could have prevented the toxic release, ...

The U.S. Chemical Safety Board on Tuesday issued its final report on a deadly release of toxic chemicals at DuPont’s LaPorte facility in 2014, concluding that a long chain of failures, including in ...

On Nov. 15, 2014, nearly 24,000 pounds of deadly methyl mercaptan escaped in the middle of the night through two valves in a poorly ventilated manufacturing building of DuPont’s insecticide plant in ...