Product safety violations occur when companies manufacture and sell goods that are dangerous or fail to meet safety standards. These products can cause harm or injury to consumers, leading to loss of life or serious health issues.
TL;DR Garden Grove Superstore Inc., a California retailer, sold three cleaning products that claimed to kill bacteria, viruses, and pathogens — without ever obtaining EPA registration to make those claims. The products, “Home Formation All Purpose Cleaner,” “Love My Carpet”…
Corporate Accountability Investigation How Electrolux Profits from Under-Cooking Your Family’s Dinner Filed: November 21, 2025 | Source: Federal Class Action Complaint, U.S. District Court, District of Delaware TL;DR Electrolux sold thousands of Frigidaire gas ranges knowing the ovens run 25…
TL;DR Smart Maintenance, LLC, a Missouri company, renovated a 1929 apartment building in St. Louis without obtaining required EPA lead-safe certification — meaning their workers were legally unqualified to handle surfaces likely containing lead paint. The EPA inspection on October…
Investigative Report: Corporate Negligence / Environmental Law Lowe’s: Lead Dust & the Hidden Cost of “Affordable” Renovations Filed November 25, 2025 | Source: United States v. Lowe’s Home Centers, LLC, Second Consent Decree TL;DR The U.S. EPA sued Lowe’s in…
TL;DR Mike Dennis used Monsanto’s Roundup herbicide monthly for 20 years and developed mycosis fungoides, a form of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma linked by the World Health Organization to glyphosate, Roundup’s main ingredient. A jury found Monsanto liable and awarded Dennis $7…
TL;DR Westport Pools, LLC, operating as Landmark Aquatic in Maryland Heights, Missouri, committed four separate federal pesticide violations found during a single inspection on January 23, 2025. The company stored a bulk tank of the chemical pesticide Vertex Concentrate with…
Exclusive Investigation • Product Safety • Class Action The Nail Gun That Fires Itself TL;DR TTI Consumer Power Tools sold about 64,000 RIDGID 18-volt framing nailers that can fire a nail without the required safety trigger-plus-contact mechanism, creating a laceration…
Investigative Report • Occupational Safety • Corporate Accountability Breathless and Buried How 3M and fellow equipment giants sold defective respirators to coal miners, watched them develop black lung, then used the law’s clock to bury the lawsuits before a jury…
Investigation: Products Liability / Public Health L’Oréal’s Hair Relaxers Were Linked To Uterine Fibroids. They Tried To Use The Clock Against Her. Decided: October 15, 2025 | Supreme Court of Georgia | Burroughs v. L’Oréal USA, Inc. et al. TL;DR…
Investigative Report · Environmental Violations · Chicago, IL Painting Over Poison Fortune Painting Company sent workers into 13 pre-1978 homes across Chicago and its suburbs without following a single rule designed to protect children from lead poisoning. The EPA caught…