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Entries for February 2010
Tuesday
Feb 09 |
Schofield, WI: A worker stripping paint at an industrial services plant specializing in electrostatic powder painting and casting cleaning was severely injured in a chemical explosion. More information |
Tuesday
Feb 09 |
Washington, UK: Sprinklers extinguished a machine fire at a plant making automobile valves. More information |
Monday
Feb 08 |
Council Bluffs, IO: First responders lacked the apparatus to reach a fire in a soybean plant dryer 120 feet high. More information |
Monday
Feb 08 |
Emerson, AR: Fire in a dust extractor sent flames up the side of an appliance factory. More information |
Monday
Feb 08 |
Erie, PA: Smoke from burned out heater motor was confined to one room at a plant specializing in composite materials. More information |
Monday
Feb 08 |
Glens Falls, NY: Smoke forced workers to evacuate a plant specializing in refining spent catalysts and supplying silver products. More information |
Monday
Feb 08 |
LaVergne, TN: Two workers battling a fire at a steel tubing plant required treatment after being hit in the face with extinguishing agent. More information |
Monday
Feb 08 |
Longview, OR: A slow leak at a pulp mill released chlorine to the atmosphere over several days. More information |
Monday
Feb 08 |
Louisville, KY: Xylene and ethyl benzene spilled at a resins plant seeped into the public sewer system, releasing acrid fumes in many homes. More information |
Monday
Feb 08 |
Melbourne, Australia: A 924,600-gallon refinery storage tank of gasoline caught fire and began leaking fuel. More information |
Monday
Feb 08 |
Lindås, Norway: Propane and methane leaking from a pipeline triggered an evacuation of more than 200 refinery workers. More information |
Monday
Feb 08 |
Orangeburg, SC: A small spill involving a soldering chemical required a hazmat response to an air conditioning plant. More information |
Sunday
Feb 07 |
Dayton, TN: Sprinklers contained a fire in a furniture plant until responders could arrive. More information |
Sunday
Feb 07 |
Louisville, KY: Firefighters responded to a hazmat spill at a chemical plant. More information |
Saturday
Feb 06 |
Pune, India: Flames spread through the inventory of a cotton mattress-manufacturing plant. More information |
Saturday
Feb 06 |
Shreveport, LA: An explosion in an environmental unit shook a specialty products refinery. More information |
Friday
Feb 05 |
Lansing, MI: A small fire broke out in an electrical substation on the roof of an automobile assembly plant. More information |
Friday
Feb 05 |
Lexington, KY: Sprinklers extinguished a small fire in a roaster at a food processing plant. More information |
Friday
Feb 05 |
Oak Ridge, TN: A worker at a low level radioactive waste facility suffered an injured leg when a large metal block fell from a crane. More information |
Friday
Feb 05 |
Orissa, India: A small fire developed at an aluminum smelter. More information |
Friday
Feb 05 |
Pleasant Prairie, WI: A small fire developed in dust collector at a coal-fired power plant. More information |
Thursday
Feb 04 |
Belle Chasse, LA: No injuries were reported in a fire at an oil refinery. More information |
Thursday
Feb 04 |
Catlettsburg, KY: A small fire broke out at a refinery being demolished. More information |
Thursday
Feb 04 |
Great Falls, MT: A refinery worker suffered burns in a fire that was quickly extinguished. More information |
Wednesday
Feb 03 |
Borobari, Bangladesh: A stampede of workers fleeing a burning textile factory left 20 people injured. More information |
Wednesday
Feb 03 |
Cleveland, OH: A small explosion at a sewage treatment plant resulted when workers attempted to restart a blower after maintenance. More information |
Wednesday
Feb 03 |
Page, AZ: Maintenance was in progress when a 4-inch steam line ruptured at a power plant, injuring four workers. More information |
Tuesday
Feb 02 |
Chicago, IL: An extra-alarm fire broke out in a tool manufacturing plant. More information |
Tuesday
Feb 02 |
Fall River, MA: Roofing work was underway when fire broke out at a textile plant. More information |
Tuesday
Feb 02 |
Quebec City, Quebec: Fire broke out in an oil refinery fluid catalytic cracking unit, shutting it down for weeks. More information |
Tuesday
Feb 02 |
Shelekov, Russia: A worker died in a fire at an aluminum plant. More information |
Monday
Feb 01 |
Orange County, FL: A suspicious electronic device welded to a 55-gallon drum of isopropyl alcohol at a chemical plant turned out to be non-hazardous. More information |
Monday
Feb 01 |
Raipurm, India: Fire swept through the power plant for a steel plant, injuring four. More information |