A fire at Formosa’s Point Comfort, Texas plant in 2013 resulted in 16 worker hospitalizations. A 2023 vinyl chloride leak at Formosa Baton Rouge was at concentrations more than 50 times OSHA’s ...

Three workers remained hospitalized Oct. 10 after an Oct. 8 accident at a materials plant operated by Formosa Plastics Corp. USA in Baton Rouge, La.

Four workers were injured, two seriously, in an Oct. 8 accident at a materials plant operated by Formosa Plastics Corp. USA in Baton Rouge, La., according to local media reports.

The incident happened around 8:15 p.m. at Formosa Plastics. The Baton Rouge Fire Department said "a compromised cylinder broke" at the plant, our partners reported.

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - Four people were rushed to a hospital after being exposed to ammonia at the Formosa Plastics facility in Baton Rouge, officials say. The incident happened Tuesday night ...

The Formosa Plastics complex has been in Baton Rouge since the early 1980s and makes polyvinyl chloride, a key material in consumer plastic products like plumbing pipes and food wrap.

Formosa first announced plans to build its massive plastics manufacturing complex in St. James in 2018. The Sunshine Project would include 16 separate facilities spread across 2,400 acres, an area ...

As an old saying goes, you can't fight city hall, meaning government. But the people of St. James Parish, La., did just that—and they won a major court victory against a massive plastics plant ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A Louisiana judge has thrown out air quality permits for a Taiwanese company’s planned $9.4 billion plastics complex between New Orleans and Baton Rouge, a rare win for ...