STRATFORD — Mayor John Harkins is on a wrecking spree. Two weeks ago, which much fanfare, the demolition of the Mercer Coal Towers on Stratford Avenue began as the mayor conducted a news conference ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — Two workers were being treated for chemical burns Friday after one fell into a vat at a Grand Rapids electroplating plant, authorities said. The Grand Rapids Fire Department ...

In December of 2010, a devastating fire destroyed Lansing’s Adams Plating Company. But even when the flames were out, the damage wasn’t over. The debris left behind harmful chemicals that leaked into ...

We recruited 64 nickel-exposed workers and 72 chromium-exposed workers from six electroplating plants (nickel-exposed workers from plants 1 to 3; chromium-exposed workers from plants 4 to 6) in ...

LESLIE, MI —Fire trucks, police cruisers and ambulances from several local counties had the area around ISC Plating, at 113 E. Covert St. in Leslie sealed off due to a fire at the steel plating plant ...

A World War II-era metal finishing plant in South Los Angeles has been fined $65,000 and placed on three years’ probation for illegally handling hazardous waste, the city attorney’s office announced ...