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 Happy Homes Property Manager, LLC, a Charleston, South Carolina rental company, signed lease contracts for 8 pre-1978 homes without ever telling tenants those homes may contain lead-based paint. The company failed tenants at every single required step: no lead…
Environmental Negligence • Public Health • Baltimore, Maryland How Two Corporations Coated Baltimore in 2.5 Tons of Lead Paint Television Tower, Inc. knew for decades. They hired an unqualified contractor anyway. Then they spent two years trying to get a…
TL;DR The Woodner Company, a Manhattan-based property management firm, rented apartments in a pre-1978 lead-paint building to families in Yonkers, NY without legally required lead disclosures or tenant acknowledgments. The EPA found 42 separate violations across 29 apartments; tenants signed…
Kia and Hyundai Knew Their Cars Were Easy to Steal. They Built Millions of Them Anyway. Corporate Accountability Project Corporate Misconduct Kia America & Hyundai Motor America · 2011–2021 Kia and Hyundai Knew Their Cars Were Easy to Steal. They…
Corporate Accountability / Pet Food Industry / Mississippi Supreme Court They Sent the Wrong Chemical. Dogs Died. Nutra-Blend swapped a Vitamin D3 product for one 15 times more concentrated, mixed it into dog food sold across the country, and then…
TL;DR Peterson’s Oil Service sold heating fuel blended with up to 35% biodiesel from 2012 to 2019, while the legal maximum for “regular heating oil” is 5% biodiesel, and customers had no idea. Customers paid full price for premium heating…
TL;DR Orlando Askins and his companies — The Askins Development Group, LLC and Shaw Holding Group LLC — renovated at least 87 lead-paint-era homes in St. Louis without ever once obtaining the required EPA safety certification. Workers left paint chips,…
EvilCorporations.com | Medical Devices | Corporate Accountability Johnson & Johnson: Welcome to Minnesota. Now Please Sue Us in England. Ethicon and its subsidiary Torax Medical implanted a device in a man, watched it fail twice, and then asked an American…
Investigation: Product Safety / Corporate Concealment Whirlpool Knew Your Stove Could Kill You. They Said Nothing. Government safety reports landed on Whirlpool’s desk. Customers smelled gas in their homes. A federal appeals court just ruled the lawsuit can proceed. Here…
EPA Enforcement Action • Clean Air Act • Asbestos Violation Asbestos at the Atlanta Botanical Garden EvilCorporations.com • Docket No. CAA-04-2025-0005(b) • 15 min read TL;DR A construction company called Genoa Construction Services, Inc. ripped the outer skin off a…