Auto shredders are very powerful machines, yet encountering just one unshreddable item can cause serious safety issues. Unshreddables include things such as big heavy castings, gasoline tanks or ...

In a dusty scrap yard on Saginaw's West Side, the success of the federal "Cash for Clunkers" program is evident in the pile of gas guzzlers headed to a metal shredder. The Rifkin Scrap Iron and Metal ...

Despite repeated complaints about metallic odors drifting into surrounding neighborhoods, city health inspectors only cited General Iron Industries once during former Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s eight years ...

Workers from auto scrap yards across Southern California packed a Planning Commission meeting Tuesday to support their boss's embattled efforts to bring a regional car shredder to a Colton scrap yard.

Much of Chicago is shut down during the COVID-19 pandemic, but a North Side company with a long history of pollution problems is still shredding flattened cars, twisted rebar and used appliances every ...

A man working at a scrap metal business in Everett was rescued Thursday afternoon after hours spent trapped in a metal shredding machine, reports said. According to CBS Boston, an employee of Scrap-It ...