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Entries for July 1998
Tuesday
Jul 14 |
Essen, Germany: Nearly 7,000 tons of paper was destroyed by fireat the printing plant of a leading national newspaper. Press equipment was also damaged.Police later determined that the fire was arson. More information |
Tuesday
Jul 14 |
Los Alamitos, CA: Fifteen workers were treated and released aftervapor release from an aerospace plant. More information |
Monday
Jul 13 |
Siaya, Kenya: Ten people were killed when an overturned fuel tanker truck exploded. Nearby residents were trying to capture the fuel flowing fromthe ruptured tanker when the explosion occurred. More information |
Monday
Jul 13 |
San Jose, CA: An tanker truck containing 6,000 gallons ofunrefined gasoline exploded. The driver escaped with minor injuries. More information |
Monday
Jul 13 |
Ardmore, OK: A fire in the fluid catalytic cracking unit of anoil refinery was quickly brought under control. More information |
Monday
Jul 13 |
Anchorage, AK: A worker cutting up a rail car with weldingequipment was severely burned in an explosion. He later died. More information |
Sunday
Jul 12 |
Sydney, Australia: Fire and explosions ripped through twochemical plants. Chemicals involved included ethanol, methanol and white spirits. More information |
Sunday
Jul 12 |
Yountville, CA: A tanker truck overturned, spilling 4,600 gallonsof gasoline. A major highway was shut down for nearly 12 hours. More information |
Saturday
Jul 11 |
Fort Worth, TX: Firefighters battled a four-alarm blaze at apaper company that destroyed dozens of bales of tightly compacted paper. More information |
Saturday
Jul 11 |
Akron, OH: Nearly 200 gallons of xylene leaked from a chemicalplant into a nearby creek. More information |
Friday
Jul 10 |
Grenzach-Whylen, Germany: An explosion at a chemicalfactory killed one worker and injured four others. The explosion occurred in a sectionthat produced coloring dyes. More information |
Friday
Jul 10 |
Portage la Prairie, Manitoba: Glycol leaked into a creek aftereight cars of an 85-car freight train derailed. The cars also contained LPG. Nearby farmswere evacuated and two major highways closed down. More information |
Friday
Jul 10 |
Guiyang, China: A death toll of more than 80 peopleresulted when gas canisters aboard a train exploded, collapsing a railroad tunnel. Amongthe dead were railroad workers sent to the accident scene and killed by subsequent blasts. More information |
Friday
Jul 10 |
Macon, GA: Gasoline from a tanker truck explosion leaked into thecity sewer system, damaging the sewers and underground utilities. More information |
Thursday
Jul 09 |
Niskayuna, N.Y.: Hydrochloric acid being shipped by a chemicalcompany spilled in the rear of a truck, requiring the help of local hazmat authorities. More information |
Wednesday
Jul 08 |
Shelby, N.C.: Hazmat personnel were called in when a tankertruck overturned, killing the driver. More information |
Wednesday
Jul 08 |
Long Beach, CA: Damage in the millions occurred at an electricalgenerating plant when a transformer overheated, igniting the coolant oil inside. More information |
Wednesday
Jul 08 |
Santa Clara, CA: Three workers at a computer company were treatedafter a release of hydrogen sulfide gas. Workers were mixing chemicals in a 55-gallon drumwhen the release occurred. More information |
Wednesday
Jul 08 |
Indiana Township, PA: A steel plant worker using a forkliftto lift a motorized cart he was repairing was crushed to death when the cart slipped andfell. More information |
Wednesday
Jul 08 |
Columbus, GA: A faulty value caused nearly 30,000 gallons ofgasoline to spill into a contained well at a petrochemical storage facility. More information |
Tuesday
Jul 07 |
Grafton, OH: Firefighters took 20 minutes to extinguish a firethat damaged the venting system in the roof of a metal processing plant. More information |
Tuesday
Jul 07 |
Westminster, MA: One employee was injured in a fire at a chemicalplant. The plant did not have a current license to store toxic chemicals. More information |
Monday
Jul 06 |
Kemerovo, Siberia: One worker was killed when an empty fueltank exploded while being cleaned. More information |
Monday
Jul 06 |
Salem, MA: One worker was burned and nine others received minorinjuries in a nitric acid spill at an environmental consulting company. More information |
Monday
Jul 06 |
Fayetteville, N.C.: An explosion in a waste line at a food plantinjured three workers. More information |
Monday
Jul 06 |
Tampa, FL: More than 60 shipyard workers were treated for exposureto fumes from a neighboring chlorine transfer facility. Only a few of the workers requiredhospitalization. More information |
Sunday
Jul 05 |
Tayside, UK: Two workers died in a fire aboard a drillingrig berthed in Dundee harbor. The workers were doing welding work. More information |
Saturday
Jul 04 |
Roxana, IL: A light spray of oil released from an oil refinerysettled across nearly 120 nearby homes. More information |
Friday
Jul 03 |
Akron, OH: A fire that began in some roofing materials led to theevacuation of an engineering plant. More information |
Friday
Jul 03 |
Aden, Yemen: An explosion damaged a pipeline connecting an oilrefinery to its port facilities. The blast was blamed on a bomb. More information |
Thursday
Jul 02 |
Wichita, KS: Two men died while cleaning a tanker at arendering plant. Fire officials found a high amount of hydrogen sulfide in the air insidethe tanker. More information |
Thursday
Jul 02 |
Sedamsville, OH: Dust particles ignited at a grain transportcenter, triggering an explosion. No injuries were reported. More information |
Thursday
Jul 02 |
Ramsey, MN: One worker was injured in an explosion at a propanestorage facility. Nearby businesses were evacuated and a major highway closed down. More information |
Wednesday
Jul 01 |
Livermore, CA: A driver trying to remove a leaking drum ofhydrochloric acid from a tractor-trailer rig was overcome by fumes. Two other people werealso treated. More information |
Wednesday
Jul 01 |
Newberry, S.C.: Barrels containing toxic chemicals overturned inthe rear of a tractor-trailer rig, closing an interstate highway for more than threehours. More information |
Wednesday
Jul 01 |
Fairfield, OH: Three workers were injured, one seriously, in afire at a chemical packaging plant. Five hundred people within a quarter-mile radius wereevacuated. More information |
Wednesday
Jul 01 |
Leveen, AZ: A nitric acid cloud released from a fertilizer plantforced the evacuation of area residents and a nearby Indian casino. Eleven people werehospitalized. More information |
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