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Entries for July 2009
Sunday
Jul 26 |
St. Joseph, IL: A grain elevator caught fire at a food processing plant. More information |
Sunday
Jul 26 |
Zarga, Jordan: Fire broke out in a boiler at an oil refinery. More information |
Saturday
Jul 25 |
Castlemaine, Australia: An ammonia leak at a factory forced officials to issue a shelter-in-place order. More information |
Saturday
Jul 25 |
Cherry Point, WA: Lightning caused a small fire at an oil refinery. More information |
Saturday
Jul 25 |
Houma, LA: A 20-inch underwater crude oil pipeline lost pressure and leaked about 1,400 barrels. More information |
Saturday
Jul 25 |
Salem, MA: Part of the roof of an aging tannery collapsed. More information |
Saturday
Jul 25 |
Whatcom County, WA: A lightning strike at a refinery knocked a worker off his feet. More information |
Friday
Jul 24 |
Denver, CO: A tank truck spilled 5,200 gallons of ethanol after being struck by a train. More information |
Friday
Jul 24 |
New York, NY: An explosion at an organic fertilizer plant damaged a storage silo. More information |
Friday
Jul 24 |
Porvoo, Finland: A shelter-inplace order was issued after a sulfur dioxide release from a refinery. More information |
Friday
Jul 24 |
Portland, OR: Worker were refueling a burner when fire broke out at an oil recycling plant. More information |
Friday
Jul 24 |
Scottsbluff, NE: A small explosion rocked a sugar refinery. More information |
Friday
Jul 24 |
Sheboygan Falls, WI: A small fire at a sausage plant injured one person. More information |
Friday
Jul 24 |
Sheridan, IN: Fire destroyed a sorghum plant. More information |
Friday
Jul 24 |
Tampere, Finland: An industrial powder painting facility caught fire. More information |
Friday
Jul 24 |
Tuscon, AZ: Fire burned for five hours at a recycling plant. More information |
Friday
Jul 24 |
West Valley City, UT: A chemical plant worker died when a lid blew off a 55- gallon drum of cleaning solution. More information |
Thursday
Jul 23 |
Bailieboro, ON: Fire broke out at a chemical recycling plant. More information |
Thursday
Jul 23 |
Coffeyville, KS: Large clouds of bright yellow smoke rose from a refinery. More information |
Thursday
Jul 23 |
Doncaster, UK: The cooling system at a carbon plant threatened to ignite. More information |
Thursday
Jul 23 |
Galveston, TX: Fire spread through two oil storage tanks in a tank battery. More information |
Thursday
Jul 23 |
Harrisburg, VA: An ammonia leak at a poultry plant affected more than 20 workers. More information |
Thursday
Jul 23 |
Khadki, India: More than a thousand residents complained of illness after a pipeline rupture at an explosives plant. More information |
Thursday
Jul 23 |
Kundzinsala Island, Latvia: Acetone cyanohydrin leaked from a 20 ton tank at a container terminal. More information |
Thursday
Jul 23 |
Mayodan, NC: Fire caused minor damage to a textile mill. More information |
Thursday
Jul 23 |
Pasig, Phillipines: Fire destroyed a furniture factory. More information |
Thursday
Jul 23 |
Saffron Walden, UK: Overheated equipment forced an evacuation at a printing plant. More information |
Thursday
Jul 23 |
San Francisco, CA: Fire broke out in a food processing plant. More information |
Thursday
Jul 23 |
Texas City, TX: A fire in a 600,000-barrel crude oil tank was quickly extinguished. More information |
Thursday
Jul 23 |
Uffeln, Germany: Two workers were affected by chlorine gas after a power failure at a chemical plant. More information |
Thursday
Jul 23 |
Wellington, KS: Fire damaged a meat packing plant. More information |
Wednesday
Jul 22 |
Asjigamo. Bangladesh: An ammonia leak at a fertilizer plant left 25 people unconscious. More information |
Wednesday
Jul 22 |
Bridgewater, VA: Responders were called to a poultry plant. More information |
Wednesday
Jul 22 |
Charleston, WV: A leak of sulfur trioxide was reported at a chemical plant. More information |
Wednesday
Jul 22 |
Cleburne, TX: A ruptured disk in a transfer line leaked trimethylamine at a chemical plant. More information |
Wednesday
Jul 22 |
Delhi, India: 4 workers died when a footwear factory burned. More information |
Wednesday
Jul 22 |
Grandpuits, France: An anhydrous ammonia leak was reported at a fertilizer plant. More information |
Wednesday
Jul 22 |
Kozani, Greece: An ammonia release at a yeast-processing plant killed one woman and injured 26. More information |
Wednesday
Jul 22 |
Iserlohn, Germany: An explosion at a paint factory killed one and injured eight. More information |
Wednesday
Jul 22 |
Moxley, UK: A recycling plant fire forced an area evacuation. More information |
Wednesday
Jul 22 |
Oroville, CA: A steel panel that fell at a power plant injured five workers. More information |
Wednesday
Jul 22 |
Tarragona, Spain: A cloud of nitric acid escaped from a faulty pipe at a chemical plant. More information |
Wednesday
Jul 22 |
Tucson, AZ: Fire destroyed a recycling plant. More information |
Tuesday
Jul 21 |
Basingstoke, UK: Fire gutted a glass cutting factory. More information |
Tuesday
Jul 21 |
Cedar Rapids, IA: A nitric acid spill forced the evacuation of an electroplating plant. More information |
Tuesday
Jul 21 |
Chonk, Pakistan: Fire broke out at a chemical factory. More information |
Tuesday
Jul 21 |
Clarendon, NY: A fire in a paint booth at a container operation spread through the entire facility. More information |
Tuesday
Jul 21 |
Kentwood, MI: A filtration system above a welding unit caught fire at a furniture factory. More information |
Tuesday
Jul 21 |
Los Angeles, CA: A worker was crushed to death by a packaging machine at a food processing plant. More information |
Tuesday
Jul 21 |
Ludhiana, India: Fire broke out in a hosiery factory. More information |
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