Product Safety and Operational Crises

Named events in which a company's product, industrial operation or information system caused physical harm, a major safety failure, or a large scale data breach, including product recalls, industrial accidents, environmental disasters and breaches of customer data. Belongs here: any event whose defining act is a safety, operational or security failure rather than a financial deception or a change in corporate ownership structure. Does not belong here: a scandal whose central element is deliberate financial deception rather than an operational or safety failure, grouped under Corporate Fraud and Financial Scandals.