Topic
Safety
12 assessed claims about safety involving 6 organizations. The labels compare each claim with the record. They do not rate the organizations.
- Supported4
- Partly supported3
- Contradicted1
- Unresolved4
- Contradicted95BHP argued at trial in London that it was not a polluter under Brazilian environmental law and breached no legal duty, so it was not liable for the Fundao dam failure.
- Supported95Reuters reported in November 2025 that London's High Court ruled BHP liable for the 2015 Fundao dam collapse in Brazil.
- Unresolved59BHP said in November 2025 that the UK group action duplicates remediation and compensation already provided in Brazil or available under the Brazil agreement.
- Unresolved60Leigh Day, lawyers for the Bille and Ogale communities, said in June 2025 that the High Court found Shell plc and its former Nigerian subsidiary can be held legally responsible for legacy oil pollution.
- Unresolved62Brazilian federal prosecutors charged that Vale and TUV SUD colluded to issue false stability declarations for the Brumadinho dam, and that 16 people committed qualified homicide.
- Partly supported86Shell said in December 2022 that it continued to believe the Oruma, Goi and Ikot Ada Udo spills in the Dutch case were caused by sabotage.
- Supported78Reuters reported in December 2022 that Shell would pay EUR 15 million to Nigerian communities to settle the Dutch Oruma, Goi and Ikot Ada Udo spill case.
- Unresolved50Trafigura says on its Probo Koala page that neither deaths, nor miscarriages or serious illnesses could have been caused by the slops dumped in Abidjan in 2006.
- Partly supported73Trafigura describes its July 2010 Dutch fine of EUR 1 million as a ruling on a technical breach of the provisions for exporting waste from the European Union.
- Supported73Vale said in February 2021 that it signed a global settlement for Brumadinho with the State of Minas Gerais and public authorities worth about BRL 37.7 billion.
- Supported73A federal parliamentary committee said in December 2020 that Rio Tinto let down the Puutu Kunti Kurrama and Pinikura peoples over the Juukan Gorge destruction and should return all artefacts.
- Partly supported53Kobe Steel said in 2018 that its safety verification had found no cases requiring immediate suspension of use or recall of customers' products.