Who's behind closurelead

What it is, and what it isn't

• It is California WARN notices of a planned permanent closure, and Pennsylvania WARN closure listings, at manufacturing, wholesale and transportation sites (warehouses and couriers included).
• It is new business Chapter 7 and 11 petitions from 14 bankruptcy courts, polled every 6 hours, for yards whose radius reaches California or Pennsylvania. A petition goes in your territory only when the court's state is inside your radius and the debtor's full name matches exactly one industrial site in OSHA records in that state (EPA records too, for courts in California and Pennsylvania), and that site is inside your radius. So far none of the 35 petitions our polls caught has matched one, so no petition is on any list yet.
• It is the straight-line distance from the center of your yard's ZIP (or of the town you type) to the site, and a link to the government record on every row.
• It isn't a list of equipment for sale: a notice says an employer plans to close a site on a date that can move, and nothing about what's inside.
• It isn't a contact list: the state lists we read leave out the company official a notice names (20 CFR 639.7). For a bankruptcy we show the trustee when the docket names one (usually Chapter 7).
• It isn't national. You get results only when your yard's radius (up to 250 miles) reaches California or Pennsylvania; other states aren't covered yet, and every list names what it didn't check.

How the list is made

1. Read the records: California EDD and Pennsylvania L&I WARN notices, bankruptcy court feeds, DOL OSHA inspections and EPA's facility database (ECHO). Distances use Census address, ZIP and town points, or EPA ECHO's point for the facility. To read a city name you type, the lookup also uses GeoNames postal codes (CC BY 4.0); that places your yard and is never the source of a row.
2. Keep closures at industrial sites. EDD processed 458 notices from Jul 1 to Nov 4, 2026. Of the 91 that announced a planned permanent closure, those at sites EDD, OSHA or EPA file under a manufacturing, wholesale or transportation code name 38 sites (1 more could not be placed on the map and is left out).
3. Check each site against OSHA and EPA. A site is confirmed only when OSHA or EPA ECHO lists a business with the filer's name at the same street address under such a code (the exact name rule). 22 of the 38 California sites are confirmed; the other 16 are shown as not confirmed. Pennsylvania L&I gives no industry, so a PA closure is shown only when OSHA or EPA confirm it the same way.

No AI model writes a number or picks a match. Bankruptcy rows link to the court docket, which needs a PACER login. Where the data comes from lists every source and what it does not prove.

What we checked before launch

On Nov 6, 2026 we ran a separate check, written without our pipeline's code or database: it re-derived 15 random rows from the government sources with its own scripts. 15 of 15 matched on every date, count, address, industry code and distance (30 of 30 in the first check), and 206 of 206 cited links resolved. See the 15 checked rows.

Records can still be wrong at the source. Every row in the results of "Check my area", the California list, the Pennsylvania list and the app has a "Wrong record?" link, and your note is stored with the row.

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