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Entries for January 2009
Sunday
Jan 25 |
Stonycreek Twp., PA: More than 20,000 tires burned in a five-alarm fire. More information |
Sunday
Jan 25 |
Calgary, AB: A 10,000-liter liquid ammonia tank at a food processing plant sprung a leak. More information |
Sunday
Jan 25 |
Cowley County, KS: About 1,500 barrels of crude leaked from a pipeline. More information |
Sunday
Jan 25 |
Falcon state, Venezuela: A fire at an oil refinery injured seven people, including four firefighters. More information |
Sunday
Jan 25 |
Great Bend, KS: A tanker truck overturned, spilling isopropyl alcohol. More information |
Sunday
Jan 25 |
Iserlohn, Germany: An explosion and fire in a waste storage bunker rocked a trash-to-heat plant. More information |
Saturday
Jan 24 |
Clayton, NC: Incorrectly mixed cleaning chemicals produced hydrochloric acid, overcoming a worker at a medical products plant. More information |
Saturday
Jan 24 |
Eugene, OR: A diesel spill from an oil company storage tank reached the Willamette River. More information |
Saturday
Jan 24 |
Houston, TX: A warehouse stocked with chemicals caught fire at a spa manufacturing plant. More information |
Friday
Jan 23 |
Chesterfield, MI: An auto parts plant worker died when heavy equipment being moved fell on him. More information |
Friday
Jan 23 |
Kansas City, MO: A “suspicious device” was found wired to a battery at a motorcycle plant. More information |
Friday
Jan 23 |
Karachi, Pakistan: A factory in an industrial area caught fire. More information |
Friday
Jan 23 |
Pawtucket, RI: Workers defrosting pipes with blow torches ignited the roof at a chemical warehouse. More information |
Friday
Jan 23 |
Sydney, Australia: An explosion in a factory hazmat bin forced workers to flee. More information |
Friday
Jan 23 |
Waco, TX: A forklift caught fire in a glass plant warehouse. More information |
Friday
Jan 23 |
Tradate, Italy: An electrical fire at a PVC production plant caused limited damage. More information |
Thursday
Jan 22 |
Burgau, Germany: Nitri acid spilled at a plant that makes auto parts. More information |
Thursday
Jan 22 |
Chicago, IL: Bales of paper ignited at a recycling plant. More information |
Thursday
Jan 22 |
Concord, NH: A steam plant worker was scalded when leaking oil hit a boiler and ignited. More information |
Thursday
Jan 22 |
Dos Bocas, Mexico: An explosion rocked a refinery. More information |
Thursday
Jan 22 |
Elie, MB: Straw bales used as a wood replacement at a fiberboard factory were set ablaze. More information |
Thursday
Jan 22 |
Harris County, TX: Oil from a cooling unit at a chemical plant ignited briefly. More information |
Thursday
Jan 22 |
Monthey, Switzerland: A chemical plant reported a phosgene leak. More information |
Thursday
Jan 22 |
Morgantown, WV: An explosion in a processing room rocked a pharmaceuticals plant. More information |
Thursday
Jan 22 |
Mouscron, Belgium: An explosion destroyed a lanoline plant. More information |
Thursday
Jan 22 |
Myrtle Beach, SC: An equipment fire at a paper mill was extinguished by sprinklers. More information |
Thursday
Jan 22 |
Oak Ridge, TN: Spilling gravel trapped a gravel plant worker in a hopper for 45 minutes. More information |
Thursday
Jan 22 |
Sikeston, MO: A fire and explosion at a transformer substation knocked out power to much of the community. More information |
Thursday
Jan 22 |
St. Cloud, MN: A large piece of falling metal killed a recycling plant worker. More information |
Thursday
Jan 22 |
Vadodara, India: A fire broke out in a bundle of plastic sheets, destroying a plastics plant. More information |
Wednesday
Jan 21 |
Bonai, India: Three workers fell ill after exposure to toxic fumes at an iron foundry. More information |
Wednesday
Jan 21 |
Grimsby, UK: Fire broke out in the fish cake frying equipment at a food processing plant. More information |
Wednesday
Jan 21 |
Guthrie, OK: A manufacturing plant worker died after a 3,000 pound steel heating system component fell on him. More information |
Wednesday
Jan 21 |
Hamilton, NH: A power plant worker rode his bulldozer 50 feet over the edge of a coal pit. More information |
Wednesday
Jan 21 |
Lower Pottsgrove Twp., PA: Sprinklers extinguished a fire following an explosion at a detergents plant in a system used to collect dust particles. More information |
Wednesday
Jan 21 |
Mechanicsburg, PA: Fire broke out in the dust collection system at a printing plant. More information |
Wednesday
Jan 21 |
Middletown, OH: A steel plant worker suffered burns when a heater being repaired exploded. More information |
Wednesday
Jan 21 |
Monroe, WI: Fire broke out in the germ dryer and bagging processor at an ethanol plant. More information |
Wednesday
Jan 21 |
Napier, New Zealand: An overheated boiler threatened to explode at a fertilizer plant. More information |
Wednesday
Jan 21 |
Savannah, GA: A flash fire in a boiler room sent chemical plant workers fleeing. More information |
Wednesday
Jan 21 |
Tulsa, OK: A grass fire threatened parked railcars of ethylene oxide. More information |
Wednesday
Jan 21 |
Victoria, TX: A spill of two gallons of acetone cyanohydrin killed thousands of fish in a barge canal. More information |
Tuesday
Jan 20 |
Longview, WA: A recycling plant worker suffered smoke inhalation when a cardboard baler caught fire. More information |
Tuesday
Jan 20 |
Regina, SK: A steel plant worker suffered injuries while working on an overhead crane. More information |
Tuesday
Jan 20 |
Sylvester, GA: Frigid temperatures hindered firefighters battling a peanut plant fire. More information |
Tuesday
Jan 20 |
Vlissingen, Netherlands: Fire broke out in a platformer at an oil refinery. More information |
Tuesday
Jan 20 |
Welland, ON: A steel plant worker died after being struck by a front end loader. More information |
Monday
Jan 19 |
The Woodlands, TX: A loading dock accident killed a worker at a restaurant supplies distributor. More information |
Monday
Jan 19 |
Accokeek, MD: Fire spread to the main building at a firearms plant, causing the roof to collapse. More information |
Monday
Jan 19 |
Battle Creek, MI: Fire broke out in an oven at a cereal factory and spread through a grain removal system. More information |
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