Preventable Deaths
Conduct Screen Direct Harm
Any corporate conduct, product defect, or operational failure that results in preventable human deaths — industrial disasters, toxic exposure fatalities, unsafe product design, building collapses, contaminated products, or systemic safety failures. Includes capital structures that enable care quality deterioration (REIT/PE ownership of senior care facilities where return extraction creates chronic understaffing), but is NOT limited to healthcare or care facilities. If people died and the company could have prevented it through reasonable action, this code applies. Distinct from working_conditions (which covers workplace injuries/illness without fatalities) and environmental_damage (which covers ecological harm without documented deaths).
25 companies currently excluded under this screen
Excluded Companies (25 total)
Showing 25 of 25 companies excluded under this screen.
| Ticker | Company | Reason |
|---|---|---|
| ARKO | ARKO | ARCO's wholly owned subsidiary GPM Investments settled a lawsuit with the family of a clerk who was killed on their premises. The lawsuit claimed that improper safety procedures were in place and lead... |
| BAYN | BAYER AG | Bayer subsidiary Cutter Biological sold HIV-contaminated Factor VIII blood products in the 1980s after withdrawing them from the US market, knowingly distributing to hemophiliacs in Asia and Latin Ame... |
| CCI | CROWN CASTLE INC | Crown Castle tower technician fatalities: 38-year-old supervisor died after falling from 500-foot guyed tower in Texas (Nov 2024); separate fatality from 300-foot tower in North Carolina (2024). OSHA ... |
| CVS | CVS Health Corporation | CVS paid $45M for deceptive PBM practices and $37.76M for over-dispensing insulin pens, causing patient harm. CVS also played a documented role in the opioid crisis through its pharmacy dispensing pra... |
| CVX | Chevron Corporation | Chevron Corporation operates a global network of high-hazard facilities, including refineries, offshore platforms, and pipelines, where safety failures have resulted in preventable worker and communit... |
| DD | DUPONT DE NEMOURS INC | On November 15, 2014, a catastrophic methyl mercaptan leak at DuPont's La Porte, Texas insecticide plant killed four workers when nearly 24,000 pounds of the toxic chemical escaped through open valves... |
| DG | Dollar General Corporation | Systemic safety failures: 49 people killed and 172 injured at Dollar General stores since 2014, per Gun Violence Archive and CNN investigation. OSHA assessed over $26M in proposed penalties (2017-2024... |
| DLTR | Dollar Tree, Inc. | Family of Dr. Helen Massiell Garay Sanchez, a 32-year-old anesthesiologist and mother of two, filed a $50M+ wrongful death suit (Feb 2026) after she became trapped in a walk-in freezer at a Miami Doll... |
| DVA | DAVITA INC | DaVita operates for-profit dialysis centers where a $383.5 million jury verdict found the company liable for three patient deaths caused by GranuFlo, a dialysis chemical that caused cardiac arrests du... |
| ECG | EVERUS CONSTRUCTION GROUP INC | Everus Construction Group (formerly MDU Construction Services Group, spun off from MDU Resources in October 2024) was cited by OSHA for willful fall protection violations following a worker fatality. ... |
| ECL | Ecolab Inc. | Ecolab has been cited by OSHA for workplace safety violations resulting in worker fatalities. Multiple OSHA investigations have documented preventable deaths at Ecolab facilities due to inadequate saf... |
| F | Ford Motor Company | Ford was hit with a $2.5B jury verdict in 2022 over a fatal rollover crash caused by a defective roof structure. Ford has a decades-long history of product defect deaths including the Pinto fuel tank ... |
| HON | Honeywell International Inc. | Honeywell faces a $12M court order for an employee death, multi-million dollar asbestos verdicts from its legacy Bendix brake products, and wrongful death litigation over faulty home gas equipment. |
| JBHT | HUNT J B TRANSPORT SERVICES INC | J.B. Hunt recorded 50 fatalities in 24 months (2023-2024), a 63% year-over-year increase (31 deaths in 2024 vs 19 in 2023). FMCSA data shows 7,663 violations (Jan 2023-2025) including 2,692 unsafe dri... |
| JNJ | Johnson & Johnson | J&J faces billions in verdicts and settlements over talc products contaminated with asbestos that caused ovarian cancer and mesothelioma. J&J also played a documented role in the opioid crisis through... |
| LYB | LyondellBasell Industries NV | LyondellBasell has been responsible for worker deaths from chemical leaks at its petrochemical plants. A July 2021 acetic acid leak at its La Porte, Texas facility killed two workers, and the company ... |
| MCD | McDonald's Corporation | McDonald's has faced legal claims alleging its products and operational practices have contributed to preventable deaths. In the landmark 2003 class-action lawsuit *Pelman v. McDonald's Corp.*, plaint... |
| MO | Altria Group | Altria Group derives approximately 99.84% of its $24 billion in annual net revenues from tobacco products, sold through its wholly-owned subsidiaries Philip Morris USA, U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Company,... |
| MPC | Marathon Petroleum Corporation | Marathon Petroleum Corporation carries $1.59 billion in regulatory penalties across 394 violation records since 2000, according to Good Jobs First's Violation Tracker. Of that total, 135 workplace saf... |
| PCG | PG&E | PG&E is responsible for 100+ deaths across a decade of catastrophic failures. The 2010 San Bruno gas pipeline explosion killed 8, destroyed 38 homes, and resulted in 6 felony convictions and a $3M fin... |
| PRIM | PRIMORIS SERVICES CORP | Primoris Services Corp., through its subsidiary Primoris T&D Services LLC, was cited by OSHA following a fatal worker electrocution during utility pole replacement work in Seminole, Florida, on August... |
| STE | STERIS PLC | STERIS's former subsidiary Isomedix operated a sterilization facility in Waukegan, Illinois from 2005 to 2008 that emitted ethylene oxide (EtO), a known human carcinogen. The facility had been emittin... |
| TJX | TJX Companies, Inc. (The) | TJX agreed to pay a $13M civil penalty for knowingly selling recalled consumer products, including inclined infant sleepers linked to multiple infant deaths from suffocation and positional asphyxia. |
| VALE | Vale S.A. | Brumadinho tailings dam collapse (January 25, 2019): 270 deaths from toxic mudflow; structural failure occurred after internal engineering reports (known to executives since 2016) showed dam failed in... |
| WHR | Whirlpool Corporation | Whirlpool has been subject to OSHA investigations for worker deaths at its manufacturing facilities. The company has also faced product liability litigation over appliance fires causing consumer death... |
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