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Entries for March 1999
Wednesday
Mar 10 |
Miami Township, OH: A half-gallon container of nitric acid exploded with force sufficient to blow the doors off a safety cabinet at a paper mill. More information |
Tuesday
Mar 09 |
Quincy, MA:A worker was severely burned in a flash fire while working on a catwalk at a refinery. He died two days later. More information |
Tuesday
Mar 09 |
New Bedford, MA: At least one worker was injured when equipment exploded at a company that makes dye. More information |
Sunday
Mar 07 |
Philadelphia, PA: Firefighters dealt with icy conditions in battling a five-alarm fire in a vacant four-story factory. It took nearly two hours to bring the fire under control. Five teenagers were later charged with reckless endangerment in connection with the fire. More information |
Sunday
Mar 07 |
Plainwell, MI: An explosion caused by a ruptured natural gas line ignited a fire that could be seen 20 miles away. More information |
Sunday
Mar 07 |
Lockland, OH: A warehouse at a vacant 80-year-old paper factory was gutted by fire. More information |
Friday
Mar 05 |
Penrose, CO: A controlled burn to clear weeds got out of hand, resulting in an explosion that destroyed a model rocket plant. About 1,000 nearby residents were evacuated out of concern for toxic fumes. More information |
Friday
Mar 05 |
Hutchinson, KS: A fire at a plant that makes wheat-straw particle board destroyed two warehouses. More information |
Friday
Mar 05 |
San Onofre, CA: An emergency alert was called at a nuclear power plant when a worker found an object that looked like a pipe bomb. It was later determined that the pipe was left behind after recent maintenance work. More information |
Friday
Mar 05 |
Smithfield, R.I.: Firefighters were concerned about runoff from a two-alarm fire at a plant that reconditions industrial barrels and drums. More information |
Friday
Mar 05 |
LaRouche, IN: Firefighters were called in after workers failed to bring a fire at a three-story fertilizer plant under control. More information |
Friday
Mar 05 |
New Haven, CT: An explosion triggered a fire in the ductwork in the roof of a factory. No injuries were reported. More information |
Thursday
Mar 04 |
Anacortes, WA: Five contract workers were injured in an explosion in a polymerization unit at an oil refinery. Six workers died in an explosion at the same plant last November. More information |
Thursday
Mar 04 |
San Jose, CA:A worker died from injuries suffered in February in a blast at a Hollister plant that makes small explosive devices. More information |
Wednesday
Mar 03 |
Dinwiddie, VA: Sixteen people at a steel plant construction site were injured when a tornado struck without warning. More information |
Wednesday
Mar 03 |
Phoenix, AZ: A three-alarm fire broke out in a paper recycling plant, causing a major traffic jam at rush hour. More information |
Wednesday
Mar 03 |
Azusa, CA: An overturned tanker leaking liquid oxygen closed an interstate highway for nearly eight hours. More information |
Wednesday
Mar 03 |
Potosi, MO: Fire damaged the packaging area of an egg processing plant. More information |
Tuesday
Mar 02 |
Circleville, OH: Three workers at a lamp plant were treated after becoming ill. Unidentified fumes were suspected but could not be confirmed. More information |
Tuesday
Mar 02 |
River Edge, N.J.: Firefighters dangled upside down from ropes to rescue a construction worker trapped in mud when a trench collapsed. More information |
Tuesday
Mar 02 |
Pendleton, Ontario: Swift winds made fire fighting difficult in a blaze that destroyed a manufacturing plant. More information |
Tuesday
Mar 02 |
Baton Rouge, LA: A power outage triggered a hydrogen chloride leak at a manufacturing plant. A community alert system automatically telephoned 500 residences to tell people to shelter in place. More information |
Tuesday
Mar 02 |
Waynesburo, GA:A concrete plant worker was killed when he was pulled into the rollers of a conveyor belt. More information |
Tuesday
Mar 02 |
Hartford, CT: Firefighters used dry chemical extinguishers to battle a combustible metal fire at a local plant. More information |
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