Saturday
Jul 04 |
Edwardsville, IL: Work with a cutting torch was underway when flames swept through a metals recycling plant. More information |
Saturday
Jul 04 |
Burbank, WA: About 30,000 gallons of vegetable oil spilled when fire broke out at a biodiesel manufacturing plant. More information |
Saturday
Jul 04 |
Milwaukee, WI: Fire gutted a meat processing plant. More information |
Saturday
Jul 04 |
Riverside, MO: An oil pit ignited at a manufacturing plant. More information |
Friday
Jul 03 |
Seymour, CT: A ruptured oil line at a precision machine manufacturing plant ignited. More information |
Friday
Jul 03 |
Ofakin, Israel: Fire broke out at a paint factory. More information |
Friday
Jul 03 |
Johnston, IA: Diesel being used to clean a conveyor belt at an asphalt plant ignited, burning a worker. More information |
Thursday
Jul 02 |
Muswellbrook, Australia: An explosion cut power to 200,000 homes. More information |
Thursday
Jul 02 |
Laval, Quebec: Fire destroyed an electro-plating factory. More information |
Thursday
Jul 02 |
Dixon, IL: A machine fire filled a door plant with smoke. More information |
Wednesday
Jul 01 |
Wichita, KS: Ammonia leaking from a compressor forced workers to evacuate a dairy plant. More information |
Wednesday
Jul 01 |
Volta Redonda, Brazil: An accident in a blast furnace at a steel plant left the area covered in black powder. More information |
Wednesday
Jul 01 |
Pouce Coup, BC: An explosion under investigation as domestic terrorism disrupted an oil pipeline. A similar blast occurred 4 days later a short distance away. More information |
Wednesday
Jul 01 |
Moraine, OH: A railcar carrying acetone cyanphydrin was damaged when it derailed. More information |
Wednesday
Jul 01 |
Dallas, TX: An ammonia leak forced workers to evacuate a food processing plant. More information |
Wednesday
Jul 01 |
Cincinnati, OH: Acid used to make molds became unstable and threatened to overpressurize a laboratory container. More information |
Wednesday
Jul 01 |
Calgary, AB: A drum containing small butane torches exploded at a tool plant, injuring a worker. More information |
Wednesday
Jul 01 |
Wimblington, UK: A bale of plastic weighting 1.5 tons caught fire at a factory. More information |