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Entries for February 2005
Friday
Feb 04 |
Allentown , PA : An underground pipeline exploded causing the evacuation of 43 nearby families. More information |
Thursday
Feb 03 |
McIntosh, AL: A hydrochloric vapor leak caused two workers to become ill at a manufacturing plant. More information |
Wednesday
Feb 02 |
Takatsuki , Japan : One employee was killed and seven others injured in an explosion caused by aluminum dust that accumulated in a dust extractor at an aluminum plant. More information |
Wednesday
Feb 02 |
Irungattukottai , India : An electrical short caused a fire in the painting division of a car manufacturing plant destroying an air-conditioner plant and spray painting machines. More information |
Wednesday
Feb 02 |
Marlin, TX: It is thought that an electrical spark caused a fire that destroyed a foam packing plant. More information |
Wednesday
Feb 02 |
Darwin , Australia : About 500 liters of a chemical mixture spilled from a cyanide holding tank at a unused gold mine. More information |
Tuesday
Feb 01 |
Caloocan , Philippines : One person was injured when a fire erupted at a plastics factory causing extensive damage. More information |
Tuesday
Feb 01 |
Saint-Arnoult-en-Yvelines: While removing an illegal stock of fireworks, an explosion occurred, triggering other explosions to nearby stored fireworks, injuring one person. More information |
Tuesday
Feb 01 |
South Whitehall , PA : A leak in a major pipeline ignited and exploded causing the evacuation of nearby residents. More information |
Tuesday
Feb 01 |
Pittsburgh, PA: A train derailed causing three of its railroad cars carrying hydrogen fluoride to spill into a nearby river resulting in the evacuation of nearby residents. More information |
Tuesday
Feb 01 |
East Grand Forks, MN: A malfunction in a coal-burning boiler caused the boiler doors to blow open and spread sparks causing a fire at a sugar plant. More information |