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Entries for November 2008
Wednesday
Nov 05 |
Youngwood PA: Fire spread through the office building at a concrete plant. More information |
Wednesday
Nov 05 |
Pickett, WI: 2 workers were injured in an accident at an ethanol plant. More information |
Wednesday
Nov 05 |
Paso Robles, CA: A worker at a powder coating company died when a 55-gallon barrel he was cutting up with a blow torch exploded. More information |
Wednesday
Nov 05 |
Midland County TX: Several oil tanks caught fire at a biofuel plant. More information |
Wednesday
Nov 05 |
Limpopo Province S. Africa: A furnace fire shut down a platinum smelter. More information |
Wednesday
Nov 05 |
Elmore OH: Fire broke out in a collector at a plant specializing in beryllium. More information |
Wednesday
Nov 05 |
Des Moines IA: A worker at a plant making nutritional ingredients was injured by an ammonia leak. More information |
Wednesday
Nov 05 |
Bozova Turkey: An explosion cut the flow of oil through the Kirkuk-Ceyhan pipeline. More information |
Wednesday
Nov 05 |
Biddeford MA: An incinerator explosion rocked a trash-to-energy power plant. More information |
Wednesday
Nov 05 |
Benfleet U.K.: A 2-story factory burned to the ground. More information |
Wednesday
Nov 05 |
Antrim U.K.: A small explosion in a dust extraction system rocked a factory. More information |
Wednesday
Nov 05 |
Alton IL: A steel worker plunged 60 feet to his death when he fell through a fiberglass roof panel. More information |
Tuesday
Nov 04 |
Urumqi, China: 4 people died in a furniture plant fire. More information |
Tuesday
Nov 04 |
Muskegon MI: Nearly 200 people were evacuated after a vapor cloud spread from a chemical plant. More information |
Tuesday
Nov 04 |
Gela, Italy: 18 petrochemical workers were overcome by a gas leak in a refinery laboratory. More information |
Tuesday
Nov 04 |
Gainsborough U.K.: An equipment fire broke out at an animal feed factory. More information |
Tuesday
Nov 04 |
Escatawpa MS: A worker was killed and 6 others injured when scaffolding collapsed at a power plant. More information |
Tuesday
Nov 04 |
Chillicothe IA: Cutting torches were in use when fire broke out at a power plant. More information |
Tuesday
Nov 04 |
Calgary AB: Fire destroyed a wire mesh factory. More information |
Tuesday
Nov 04 |
Chaineux Belgium: Workers at an industrial park were evacuated after a product released chlorine fumes. More information |
Tuesday
Nov 04 |
Battle Creek MI: A crane struck a cereal plant worker in the head. More information |
Monday
Nov 03 |
Torrington WY: Fire destroyed a concrete plant as workers thawed water pipes. More information |
Monday
Nov 03 |
Texas City TX: Responders quickly extinguished a small pump fire at an oil refinery. More information |
Monday
Nov 03 |
Spokane Valley WA: Nearly 1,000 gallons of gasoline leaked from a 1.6 million gallon tank at an oil refinery. More information |
Monday
Nov 03 |
Salem MA: Power plant workers became sick after exposure to a cleaning solution used to control algae. More information |
Monday
Nov 03 |
Nicholasville KY: Sulfuric acid fumes forced workers at a car parts plant to flee. More information |
Monday
Nov 03 |
Lestane, Serbia: 3 workers were injured in an explosion at an armaments plant. More information |
Monday
Nov 03 |
Fraserburgh U.K.: An arson fire damaged a seafood processing plant. More information |
Monday
Nov 03 |
Arkoma OK: Live ammunition found its way into 2,200 rounds of inert military ordnance being scrapped for copper at a recycling plant, resulting in an explosion than injured 1. More information |
Monday
Nov 03 |
Ahmedabad India: Fire gutted a textile plant. More information |
Sunday
Nov 02 |
Shuaiba Kuwait: A worker was killed in an industrial accident at a chemical plant. More information |
Sunday
Nov 02 |
Multan Pakistan: A worker died and dozens were injured when an ammonia gas cylinder exploded at an ice factory. More information |
Sunday
Nov 02 |
Cookeville TN: Fire raced through a furniture manufacturing plant. More information |
Saturday
Nov 01 |
Tucson AZ: Tens of thousands of gallons of corrosive acid spilled out of a copper mine into a nearby creek. More information |
Saturday
Nov 01 |
Sault, ON: A steel plant worker died from injuries on the job. More information |
Saturday
Nov 01 |
Monroe MI: Hazmat responders controlled a sulfuric acid leak at a power plant. More information |
Saturday
Nov 01 |
Devon UK: Fire spread through a seafood packaging plant. More information |