Preventable Deaths
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).
Excluded Companies (16 total)
Showing 15 of 16 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... |
| CVS | CVS Health Corporation | $45M settlement for deceptive PBM practices; $37.76M settlement for over-dispensing insulin pens; documented role in opioid crisis. |
| DG | Dollar General Corporation | $12M OSHA fine following 49 deaths and 172 injuries at stores since 2014; documented unsafe working conditions. |
| DLTR | Dollar Tree, Inc. | $50M wrongful death lawsuit filed January 2026 after customer died from environmental hypothermia found in Dollar Tree freezer. |
| DVA | DAVITA INC | In July 2021, DaVita Inc. and its former CEO Kent Thiry were indicted for conspiring to violate the Anti-Kickback Statute, with allegations including improper financial relationships that could compro... |
| F | Ford Motor Company | Georgia jury awarded $2.5B in wrongful death damages in 2022 rollover crash; historical Ford Pinto product defect deaths. |
| HCA | HCA HEALTHCARE INC | HCA Healthcare Inc. agreed to pay $16 million to resolve False Claims Act allegations involving medically unnecessary cardiac procedures that contributed to preventable deaths. |
| HON | Honeywell International Inc. | $12M court order for employee death; asbestos-related multi-million dollar verdicts; wrongful death lawsuit re home gas explosion. |
| JNJ | Johnson & Johnson | Major lawsuits and large verdicts related to talc products causing cancer and role in opioid crisis. |
| MAR | Marriott International | $3.5M settlement for guest injury; wrongful death lawsuit after guest died from scalding burns at Fairfield by Marriott. |
| PCG | PG&E | PG&E was sentenced to five years of probation and ordered to pay more than $3 million in penalties and reimbursement for the 2010 San Bruno pipeline explosion that killed 8 people. |
| STE | STERIS PLC | Sterigenics, a Steris subsidiary, agreed to pay $408 million to settle more than 870 lawsuits alleging ethylene oxide emissions caused cancers and deaths in Willowbrook residents. |
| TJX | TJX Companies, Inc. (The) | Agreed to pay $13M civil penalty for knowingly selling recalled products, including inclined infant sleepers linked to infant deaths. |
| 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... |
| WELL | Welltower | The drice for high operating margins has led to bare-bones staffing at several Welltower facilities. This lack of oversight has resulted in oversights -- doors left open, alarms ignored -- that direct... |
The Naughty List
A digest of changes to our exclusion list — new additions, removals, and the evidence behind them. We review the list continuously as new evidence surfaces.