|
|
Entries for March 2010
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 |
Friday
Mar 26 |
Bathinda, India: One person died and four otherswere seriously injured when the roof of a warehouse under construction at anoil refinery collapsed. More information |
Friday
Mar 26 |
Qingdao, China: An explosion at a chemical plantleft three people dead and one seriously injured. More information |
Friday
Mar 26 |
Bathinda, India: One person died and four otherswere seriously injured when the roof of a warehouse under construction at anoil refinery collapsed. More information |
Friday
Mar 26 |
Genesee County, NY: Fire broke out at a cement plant. More information |
Friday
Mar 26 |
Hillsdale, MO: Fire destoyed a plant specializing in refurbishing wooden pallets. More information |
Friday
Mar 26 |
Qingdao, China: An explosion at a chemical plantleft three people dead and one seriously injured. More information |
Friday
Mar 26 |
Phillipsburg, NJ: A worker at a pipe foundry suffered burns on both feet. More information |
Friday
Mar 26 |
Southport, NC: Electric blanket used for post-weld heat treatment caught fire at a nuclearpower. More information |
Friday
Mar 26 |
West Liberty, IA: Fifteen workers at a food processing plant were exposed to leaking ammoniafumes. More information |
Friday
Mar 26 |
Xinjiang Uygur, China: A waste oil tank explosion at a cereal and oil facility left 6 people burned and two missing. More information |
Thursday
Mar 25 |
Charleston, NC: A leaking valve on a storage tank spilled maleic anhydride into a concrete dikeat a packaging plant. More information |
Thursday
Mar 25 |
Franklin, MA: Sprinklers helped control an equipment fire at a plant that manufacturesautomobile interiors. More information |
Thursday
Mar 25 |
Ingleside, TX: Two workers escaped with minor injuries when a crude oil barge undergoingwelding exploded. More information |
Thursday
Mar 25 |
Kidderminster, UK: Workers extinguished a fire at a carpet factory before firefighters arrived. More information |
Thursday
Mar 25 |
Longview, WA: A small fire broke out on the conveyor belt fueling the power plant at a lumberproducts plant. More information |
Thursday
Mar 25 |
Manotick, ON: A worker at an environmental services facility died when a gravel pile shifted,crushing the forklift he was operating. More information |
Thursday
Mar 25 |
Pasir Gudang, India: A warehouse at a plastics factory partly collapsedfrom damage by fire. More information |
Thursday
Mar 25 |
Port Huron, MI: A piece of fiberglass caught fire at an auto partsfactory, causing major equipment damage. More information |
Thursday
Mar 25 |
Refinería Estatal de Esmeraldas,Ecuador: An oil refinery worker died frominjuries suffered in a fall. More information |
Thursday
Mar 25 |
St. Petersburg, FL: Sprinklers helped control a fire that damaged at plant specializing inpackaging medicine. More information |
Thursday
Mar 25 |
Thane, France: A chemical plant worker was severely burned bybromine when a pump ruptured. More information |
Thursday
Mar 25 |
Warrenburg, NY: A small fire at a plant specializing in using wood chips to make pet beddingwas quickly extinguished. More information |
Thursday
Mar 25 |
Refinería Estatal de Esmeraldas,Ecuador: An oil refinery worker died frominjuries suffered in a fall. More information |
Thursday
Mar 25 |
Manotick, ON: A worker at an environmental services facility died when a gravel pile shifted,crushing the forklift he was operating. More information |
Wednesday
Mar 24 |
Lansing, NY: A salt mine worker died when bin used to load trucks collapsed. More information |
Wednesday
Mar 24 |
Haileybury, ON: Aworker died in an industrial accident at a recycling plant. More information |
Wednesday
Mar 24 |
Faridkot, India: Three people died and seven wereinjured when a tanker truck overturned and burst into flames. More information |
Wednesday
Mar 24 |
Cape Town, SouthAfrica: Fire spread through an oven and packaging material at a shelving plant. More information |
Wednesday
Mar 24 |
Eldon, MO: Fire damage at a paper and janitorial supplies plant was mainly limited to anempty apartment. More information |
Wednesday
Mar 24 |
Faridkot, India: Three people died and seven wereinjured when a tanker truck overturned and burst into flames. More information |
Wednesday
Mar 24 |
Haileybury, ON: Aworker died in an industrial accident at a recycling plant. More information |
Wednesday
Mar 24 |
Hanford, WA: A drop of nitric acid landing on the filter canister of a respirator was enoughto overcome the nuclear production worker wearing it. More information |
Wednesday
Mar 24 |
Highland, WA: A seven-hour fire in a fruit warehouse rekindled to cause further damage. More information |
Wednesday
Mar 24 |
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam: No water was available to fight a fire that destoyeda 43,000-square-foot wood processing factory. More information |
Wednesday
Mar 24 |
Lansing, NY: A salt mine worker died when bin used to load trucks collapsed. More information |
Wednesday
Mar 24 |
Mason City, IA: Firefighters responding to reports of a smokey odor at an egg products plantcould find no fire. More information |
Wednesday
Mar 24 |
Middletown, CT: A worker at a plastics plant specializing in custom injection molding waspinned when a forklift overturned. More information |
Wednesday
Mar 24 |
Moncure, NC : Sawdust fueled an equipment fire at a wood millfacility, the second such fire reported this year. More information |
Wednesday
Mar 24 |
Nashville, TN: A leaking chemical drum at a freight transport facility sent one worker to thehospital. More information |
Wednesday
Mar 24 |
Proctor, WV: A bomb scare shut down chemical plant operations for several hours. More information |
Wednesday
Mar 24 |
Ramos Arizpe, Mexico: A ruptured liquid oxygen linetriggered an explosion at a steel mill. More information |
Wednesday
Mar 24 |
Rustavi, Georgia: A brewery lost 900 tons of beer when a fermentation tank collapsed, destroyingsurrounding tanks. More information |
Wednesday
Mar 24 |
San Juan Epatlán, Mexico: Three containers of dimethoate explodedat an agricultural products plant, causing an area panic. More information |
Wednesday
Mar 24 |
Tieton, WA: Heavy fire damage to the packing line at a fruitwarehouse may take eight months to repair. More information |
Wednesday
Mar 24 |
Widnes, UK: A chemical residue in a drum exploded, injuring a warehouse worker. More information |
Tuesday
Mar 23 |
Ashuganj, Bangladesh: Seven of eight power plant unitswere shut down when a fire broke out in the transformer room. More information |
Tuesday
Mar 23 |
Baiyin City, China: Five workers died from injuries when molten orespilled from a chemical plant furnace. More information |
Tuesday
Mar 23 |
Columbus, OH: Smoke from a fire at an egg processing plant resulted in the euthanizing ofnearly 250,000 chickens. More information |
Tuesday
Mar 23 |
Cangrejera, Mexico: An explosion and fire in a storage tank of benzenerocked an oil refinery. More information |
|