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Entries for March 2010
Wednesday
Mar 31 |
Tampa, FL: Railcars carrying anhydrous ammonia derailed. More information |
Wednesday
Mar 31 |
Belpre, WV: A liquid solvent caught fire in a purification columnat a polymers plant. More information |
Wednesday
Mar 31 |
Chabra, India: A pipeline carrying powdered coal to a power plantboiler ruptured, causing an explosion that killed one worker and injured 21others. More information |
Wednesday
Mar 31 |
Des Moines, IA: Aworker died from injuries in an industrial accident at a dairy plant. More information |
Wednesday
Mar 31 |
Grande Prairie, AB: Fire broke out at a truck transportation center for apipeline company. More information |
Wednesday
Mar 31 |
Hopewell Twp., PA: Gas on the surface of wastewaterat a gas drilling site ignited. More information |
Wednesday
Mar 31 |
Laveen, AZ: A blaze engulfed stacks of wood pallets at a palletplant. More information |
Wednesday
Mar 31 |
Los Angeles, CA: Flames gutted a cabinet factory. More information |
Wednesday
Mar 31 |
San Miguel, AZ: Fire broke out at a plastics plant. More information |
Wednesday
Mar 31 |
Sidney, OH: Aworker at a plant specializing in automotive plastics died in an industrialaccident involving a forklift. More information |
Wednesday
Mar 31 |
St. Louis, MO: A chemical spill led to the evacuation of a factory specializingin electrical insulation. More information |
Wednesday
Mar 31 |
Des Moines, IA: Aworker died from injuries in an industrial accident at a dairy plant. More information |
Wednesday
Mar 31 |
Evart, MI: A small fire broke out at a plastics plant.
More information |
Wednesday
Mar 31 |
Maxwell, CA: A contractor working at a power plant suffered injuries when he was crushed between a lift device and a steel beam.
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Wednesday
Mar 31 |
Pampa, TX: Fire broke out in a carbon black plant that had been
shut down for maintenance.
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Tuesday
Mar 30 |
Monroe, LA: Arecycling plant owner died when a forklift being unloaded from a truck toppledonto him. More information |
Tuesday
Mar 30 |
Brewer, ME: Firefightersresponded to flames at a storage facility for flammable industrial gases. More information |
Tuesday
Mar 30 |
Cincinnati, OH: An overturned tanker truck did not spill diesel fuelas earlier reported. More information |
Tuesday
Mar 30 |
Colmar, France: A flash fire triggered by a runaway reaction injuredthree people at a plant specializing in non-flammable fiber for firefighters. More information |
Tuesday
Mar 30 |
Denham Springs, LA: A chemical company warehouse and several otherbuildings caught fire, sending 55-gallon drums rocketing into the sky. More information |
Tuesday
Mar 30 |
Hsinchu City, China: A solar cell manufacturer evacuated its plant at anindustrial park when fire broke out at a neighboring company. More information |
Tuesday
Mar 30 |
Kota, India: Fire destroyed a warehouse stocked with harvestedrice. More information |
Tuesday
Mar 30 |
Melbourne, Australia: Welding work was underway when afire spread through a garage door factory. More information |
Tuesday
Mar 30 |
Monroe, LA: Arecycling plant owner died when a forklift being unloaded from a truck toppledonto him. More information |
Tuesday
Mar 30 |
Port Everglades, FL: Haz mat teams responded to apossible leak of hydrochloric acid from a cargo container. It turned out to beindustrial air freshener. More information |
Tuesday
Mar 30 |
Portsmouth, VA: A dumpster fire at a chemical plant is suspected tobe spontaneous combustion, a recurring problem at the facility. More information |
Tuesday
Mar 30 |
Rexdale, ON: A two-alarm fire damaged a tool and dye facility. More information |
Tuesday
Mar 30 |
Sitra, Bahrain: Fire spread rapidly through the contents of awarehouse storing tons of paper and cardboard. More information |
Monday
Mar 29 |
Avondale, AZ: Thousands of gallons of mineral oil used to cool fourtransformers at a power plant caught fire. More information |
Monday
Mar 29 |
Cambridge, UK: A worker at a food processing plant was trapped underfallen bins. More information |
Monday
Mar 29 |
Cardon, Venezuela: Fire knocked out a catalyticcracker at an oil refinery, shutting down operations for several days. More information |
Monday
Mar 29 |
Clitheroe, UK: Metal shelves at an industrial estate collapsed,trapping a worker underneath. More information |
Monday
Mar 29 |
Paragould, AR: Fire destroyed a tire factory that was in the processof relocating to a new location. More information |
Monday
Mar 29 |
Sproul State Forest,PA: More than 8,000 gallons of mudused for drilling operations overflowed at a natural gas drilling site. More information |
Monday
Mar 29 |
Wareham, MA: A former food processing plant now subdivided into anumber of small businesses caught fire. More information |
Monday
Mar 29 |
Wauseon, OH: Nearby homes were evacuated due to heavy toxic smokeproduced by a packaging plant fire. More information |
Sunday
Mar 28 |
Braubach, Germany: A tanker carrying adiponitrile, which can releasehydrogen cyanide when it comes in contact with water, ran aground on asandbank, closing the Rhine to traffic. More information |
Sunday
Mar 28 |
Buffalo, NY: A two-alarm fire broke out at a paper reconditioning plant. More information |
Sunday
Mar 28 |
Hartsville, SC: A fire in an electrical panel resulted in theautomatic shutdown of a nuclear power plant. More information |
Sunday
Mar 28 |
Hudson, NY: Firefighters responded to a gas leak at a derelictrefrigeration plant. More information |
Sunday
Mar 28 |
North Perry, OH: A small fire in the lubrication system at a nuclear power plant was contained. More information |
Sunday
Mar 28 |
Ocean City, MD: An arson charge has been filed in a fire to abuilding on the site of a concrete plant. More information |
Sunday
Mar 28 |
Pershore, UK: Firefighters maintained a 656 foot exclusion zone atan industrial fire because cylinders containing acetylene and oxygen posed anexplosion risk. More information |
Sunday
Mar 28 |
Saratov, Russia: A fire at an oil refinery did not affect output. More information |
Sunday
Mar 28 |
Toronto, ON: Firefighters brought a fire at a cement plant under control in about an hour. More information |
Saturday
Mar 27 |
Fitchburg, MA: A worker rewiring an motor at a wood pellet plant died in an apparentelectrocution. More information |
Saturday
Mar 27 |
Kanpur, India: A chemical factory was largely gutted in athree-hour fire. More information |
Saturday
Mar 27 |
Port Angeles, WA: A worker at a plant making wood chips and sawdust died from injuries sustainedwhen a conveyor belt he was working on suddenly turned on. More information |
Saturday
Mar 27 |
Quitman, AR: A large fire broke out at a gas well site. More information |
Saturday
Mar 27 |
Fitchburg, MA: A worker rewiring an motor at a wood pellet plant died in an apparentelectrocution. More information |
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