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 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…
TL;DR Jackson Electric Cooperative, an electric utility in Black River Falls, Wisconsin, stored toxic PCB-contaminated transformers on site for years without performing a single required inspection for leaks. When federal EPA inspectors showed up on July 10, 2023, Jackson Electric…
Environmental Accountability • Kansas City, Missouri • Lead Poisoning Risk Zero Dollars. Zero Accountability. Three Homes Poisoned. Filed: October 6, 2025 • EPA Region 7 • RK Contractors, LLC TL;DR RK Contractors, LLC renovated three pre-1978 Kansas City homes, all…
Louisiana Supreme Court • October 24, 2025 • Products Liability The Death of a Handymanvs. Werner Ladder’s Brand Image TL;DR In November 2019, Carlos Pellecer, a handyman, fell from a Werner-branded aluminum ladder while changing an outdoor light in New…
TL;DR Arxada, LLC, a New Jersey chemical corporation, imported 18 bags of the industrial pesticide Axcela into the United States through Salt Lake City on April 15, 2025, with three mismatched and contradictory establishment identification numbers across its paperwork. Federal…
A Contractor Poisoned Homes. The EPA Let Them Buy Their Way Out. TL;DR Landmark Modernization Contractors, a remodeling company based in Rocklin, California, broke federal lead-paint safety laws that exist specifically to protect families and workers from one of the…