HOUMA — A seven-month federal investigation into a deadly crane collapse at a local shipyard found that a cracked piece of welding, undetected for more than a decade, caused the machine to fall and ...

SHIPPINGPORT, Pa. (AP) — FirstEnergy Corp. and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission say a crack has been found in the weld of a western Pennsylvania nuclear reactor, but that no radiation leaked from the ...

A manufacturing issue, not a design flaw, led to a six-inch crack along a weld seam on the hull of Littoral Combat Ship, USS Freedom, during heavy weather trials in February, Navy officials said today ...

After Thursday’s meeting of the Transbay Joint Powers Association board, we may finally have an idea what’s behind the cracking in the faulty girders that have kept the new $2 billion-plus Transbay ...

The welding code and construction contract for the suspension-span roadway of the new San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge each contain a universal rule: “No cracks.” That rule applies to any new steel ...