After 131 years of building caskets fit for presidents, the Marsellus Casket Co. will close over the next month, leaving 315 workers without jobs. The decision announced Thursday by the casket-maker's ...

At least once a month, John Marsellus would return to the site of his family’s casket factory on Syracuse’s West Side and reflect. His great-grandfather built the Marsellus Casket Co. building at 101 ...

Is Batesville Casket deviously fixing prices and gouging the bereaved? Or is it just a tough company protecting the channel? The Batesville Casket Co.'s cavernous coffinmaking plant in Batesville, Ind ...

Syracuse, NY -- Lawrence English, the former president of the Marsellus Casket Co., rarely drives by the old building where he worked for 32 years. It's just too sad, he said. The building was old, ...

Wed, 29 Sep 2010 09:39:56 GMT — Demolition will continue Thursday at the old Marsellus Casket Company in Syracuse after fire gutted the vacant building Wednesday. Flames broke out around 3 a.m.at the ...

Achievements: 73.1% reduction in returns as a percent of production since 2002. Excellence Achievement Award from National Safety Council for 1 million work hours without a lost work day in 2005. At ...

Batesville Services employs 3,000 people, about 600 of whom work in Indiana. The plant in Batesville produces premium copper, bronze and stainless-steel caskets. (Photos courtesy of Batesville ...

Achievements: 7.2% drop in hours per unit since 2006; 45% improvement in recordable incidence rates from 2007 to 2008; 2004 IW Best Plants winner When Batesville Casket Co.'s Manchester, Tenn., plant ...