Nissan tightens safety watch after U.S. factory fatalities

Nissan is implementing stricter governance and oversight over all contractors and their employees operating in U.S. manufacturing facilities, such as Smyrna, Tenn., pictured. The changes include mandatory participation in weekly safety briefings led by Nissan safety personnel.

June 24, 2013 05:00 AM

Editor's note: An earlier version of this story included an incorrect time of a fatal accident at Nissan's Smyrna, Tenn., assembly plant on June 16, and the year a contract driver was killed in a trucking accident on the same site.

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