Most Popular Manufacturing Headlines This Year
The most viewed headlines from our Manufacturing Topic Page over the last year.
#1 Michigan Manufacturer Sued for Unlawful Termination of Employee Due to Disability
Sep 23 2024 // Navitas Systems, LLC., an Ann Arbor, Michigan-based company specializing in comprehensive energy storage solutions and battery manufacturing, violated federal law by using an unlawful company policy to deny a reasonable...
#2 Manufacturers Hit by Soaring Property Insurance Costs
Aug 13 2024 // James Kirsh expects the cost of the property and casualty insurance for his family-owned foundry in Wisconsin that makes cast iron parts for tractors and other equipment to at least double when it’s up for renewal...
#3 Oklahoma Manufacturer Sued For Firing Employees Over COVID Vaccine Exemptions
Sep 3 2024 // AG Equipment Company, a Broken Arrow, Oklahoma compressor packaging manufacturer, violated federal law when it fired 10 employees for failing to receive a COVID-19 vaccination because of their religious beliefs or medical...
#4 Manufacturer Fined $500K for Violating OSHA Rule Leading to Ohio Worker’s Death
Jun 12 2025 // Fabcon, a Delaware corporation with a manufacturing facility in Ohio, was sentenced to pay a $500,000 fine, the statutory maximum, after pleading guilty to willfully violating an Occupational Safety and Health...
#5 Washington Metal Fabricator Faces Felony in $340K Workers’ Comp Scam
Sep 19 2024 // A Washington man who claimed he was too injured to work while operating a metal fabrication shop faces a felony charge in an alleged $340,000 workers’ compensation scam. Travis Lee Johnson, 52, of Spokane Valley,...
#6 Tennessee Investigating Plastics Factory Where Helene Flooding Killed 11 Workers
Oct 3 2024 // A Tennessee plastics factory kept workers going until it was too late to evacuate before Hurricane Helene flooding swamped the building, employees have said. Now, the company is likely facing liability lawsuits and...
#7 Kennedy Wants FDA to Close Food Manufacturers’ ‘Self-Affirm’ Safety ‘Loophole’
Mar 12 2025 // U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert Kennedy Jr. directed the Food and Drug Administration on Monday to revise safety rules to help eliminate a provision that allows companies to self-affirm that food...
#8 Airbnb Billionaire Plans Factory-Built Homes for LA Fire Victims
Feb 20 2025 // Billionaire Joe Gebbia, the co-founder of Airbnb Inc. and a board member of Elon Musk’s Tesla Inc., plans to donate $15 million of factory-built dwellings to victims of the Los Angeles wildfires. The pre-fabricated...
#9 Iowa-Based Ice Cream Manufacturer Issues Recall Over Plastic Concerns
May 20 2025 // An Iowa-based ice cream manufacturer has recalled nearly 18,000 containers of ice cream and frozen yogurt over concerns they could contain pieces of plastic. Wells Enterprises issued the voluntary recall last month,...
#10 Texas Sues Chemical Manufacturers for Deceptive PFAS Marketing
Dec 12 2024 // Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit on Dec. 11 against manufacturers 3M and DuPont for misrepresenting the health risks of products made with forever chemicals The lawsuit alleges the companies for decades...
#11 Ohio Manufacturer Faces $182K Fine for Workers’ Amputations
Dec 9 2024 // U.S. Department of Labor inspectors found a Cleveland, Ohio bakeware manufacturer failed to prevent two workers from suffering injuries that resulted in amputations, incidents that could have been avoided with proper...
#12 Ohio Manufacturer Faces $145K in Fines After Worker Fatally Burned by Molten Metal
Jul 29 2024 // A Hubbard, Ohio industrial manufacturer failed to protect their employees from molten metal that was heated to more than 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit, the U.S. Department of Labor determined after its investigation into how a...
#13 Chicago Manufacturer Faces $1M Fine for Exposing Workers to Silica Dust
Aug 29 2024 // Federal safety inspectors became aware that a 31-year-old employee of a Chicago countertop manufacturer needed a double lung transplant after suffering accelerated silicosis ‒ an incurable lung disease – and the U.S....
#14 Faulty Gas Fitting Caused Deadly Chocolate Factory Explosion: Safety Board
Dec 12 2024 // Cascading failures involving a corroded steam pipe and a defective natural gas fitting caused a powerful explosion in 2023 at a Pennsylvania chocolate factory, killing seven workers when the company failed to evacuate, a...
#15 Elon Musk Says First Tesla Drove Itself From Factory to Customer
Jul 1 2025 // Tesla Inc. Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk said a Tesla Model Y SUV drove itself from the company’s factory near Austin to a customer’s home in the company’s latest move to showcase its push into...
#16 Michigan Battery Manufacturer to Pay $95K Over Disability Discrimination Suit
Jun 20 2025 // Navitas Systems, LLC, an Ann Arbor, Michigan battery manufacturer, will pay $95,000 and furnish other relief to resolve a disability discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal...
#17 Illinois Manufacturer to Pay $1.3M After Plant Explosion
Oct 8 2024 // Chemical products manufacturer AB Specialty Silicones LLC will pay $1.3 million in penalties after an explosion and fire at its Waukegan, Illinois plant in May 2019 claimed the lives of four workers. The U.S. Department of...
#18 Kentucky Factory Neighbors Cite Years of Odors Before Deadly Explosion
Nov 15 2024 // For years, neighbors who lived near a factory in Louisville, Kentucky, complained amongst themselves and to local officials about a variety of strange smells coming from the plant, which produces colorings for food and...
#19 GE Vernova Blames Manufacturing Flaw for Vineyard Wind Offshore Blade Failure
Jul 26 2024 // A manufacturing flaw led to a turbine blade failure at the Vineyard Wind offshore project off the coast of Massachusetts this month, the part’s producer, GE Vernova, said on Wednesday. The turbine blade broke on July...
#20 Michigan Paper Manufacturer Agrees to $300K Settlement Over PFAS Contamination
Jun 27 2025 // Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel announced a settlement agreement with Domtar Industries, LLC and E.B. Eddy Paper, Inc. (together, Domtar) to address releases of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) at the...
