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Entries for March 2010
Friday
Mar 12 |
Grand Rapids, MI: An explosion at an asphalt plant sent one worker to the hospital with secondand third degree burns. More information |
Friday
Mar 12 |
Jeddah, Saudi Arabia: Fire spread through a warehousecontaining paper products. More information |
Friday
Mar 12 |
Kariya, Japan: An auto plant stopped productionfor three hours after a worker was found dead inside a car. More information |
Friday
Mar 12 |
Minden, LA: A rail yard supervisor died from lack of oxygeninside a rail car. More information |
Friday
Mar 12 |
Pell City, AL: A worker at a plant specializing in recycling PCB contaminated equipment wasdismantling a transformer when he was injured by an explosion. More information |
Friday
Mar 12 |
Plymouth, UK: A trash bin fire inside a wire manufacturing plant created heavy smoke. More information |
Friday
Mar 12 |
São Francisco do Conde, Brazil:A refinery workersuffered extensive burns when a boiler exploded. More information |
Friday
Mar 12 |
Shadnagar, India: A fire at a particle board plant spread through rawmaterial. More information |
Friday
Mar 12 |
Steward, IL: A worker at an argriculturalfacility was found dead after falling into a bin and being buried by corn. More information |
Friday
Mar 12 |
Taranto, Italy: No production was lost after a fire triggered by abroken gasket was extinguished at an oil refinery. More information |
Friday
Mar 12 |
Towanda, NY: A gas drilling worker died from a 20-foot fall from a drilling rig. More information |
Thursday
Mar 11 |
Huntington, IN: Nearly 230,000 gallons of diesel overflowed from a holding tank at an oilrefinery, spilling into a containment area. More information |
Thursday
Mar 11 |
Kalideres, Indonesia: Four people died in a fire thatdestroyed a sandal factory. More information |
Thursday
Mar 11 |
Knoxville, TN: Nearly 3,000 gallons of recycled motor oil burned at an oil disposal facility. More information |
Thursday
Mar 11 |
Pasig City, Philippines: An explosion at a chemical plantspecializing in detergent ingredients injured two workers. More information |
Thursday
Mar 11 |
Ankleshwar, India: Gases leaking from storage tanksignited at an agricultural chemical plant, killing the plant engineer. More information |
Thursday
Mar 11 |
Bloomfield, NY: A worker at a plant specializing in plastic resin was injured when leg becametangled in plastic sheeting being pulled by a spool. More information |
Thursday
Mar 11 |
Chandler, OK: A 26-inch pipeline that moved natural gas across the state exploded. More information |
Thursday
Mar 11 |
Flamborough, ON: Fire ignited in a 100-gallon tank of animal fat and bone meal at a renderingplant. More information |
Thursday
Mar 11 |
Gramsdale, UK: Firefighters extinguished a smokey fire in a fireprocessing factory within an hour. More information |
Thursday
Mar 11 |
Hamilton, ON: Fire broke out at a waste recycling plant. More information |
Wednesday
Mar 10 |
Bratislava, Slovakia: A loud explosion heard near an oil refinery wasactually a polyethylene-making line being depressurized. More information |
Wednesday
Mar 10 |
Greenville, MS: A small explosion triggered a fire at an herbicide plant. More information |
Wednesday
Mar 10 |
Rannerdorf, Austria: A truck loaded with wood pellets caught fire in atraffic tunnel. More information |
Wednesday
Mar 10 |
Santa Clara, CA: A fire at a recycling plant specializing in electronic components resulted in ashelter-in-place order for local residents. More information |
Tuesday
Mar 09 |
Quezon City, Philippines: Fire gutted a bed factory. More information |
Tuesday
Mar 09 |
Perm, Russia: Fire spread over 3,000 square feet at a chemicalplant. More information |
Tuesday
Mar 09 |
Port Arthur, TX: A pump seal failure sparked a fire at an oil refinery that released 565 poundsof sulfur dioxide. More information |
Tuesday
Mar 09 |
Cullen, LA: An explosion at a paper mill resulted in minimal damage. More information |
Tuesday
Mar 09 |
Davidson County, NC: A tanker carrying ethanol ethyl acetone, toluene and methyl ethyl ketone overturnnear a creek, spilling 8,000 gallons of hazardous material. More information |
Tuesday
Mar 09 |
Ledyard, CT: A contractor working at a chemical plant fell down two stories of exteriorstairs. More information |
Tuesday
Mar 09 |
Melbourne, Australia: A shipping warehouse was evacuated after drumsleaking acid were discovered. More information |
Tuesday
Mar 09 |
Mooresville, NC: A tanker truck overturned, spilling nearly 8,000 gallons of hazardous material,including toluene. More information |
Monday
Mar 08 |
Bideford, UK: Alarms warning of a potassium cyanide leak at an electronics plant triggered aworker evacuation. More information |
Monday
Mar 08 |
Baoshan district, China: A chemical plant was ordered tosuspend operations after a leak caused local panic. More information |
Monday
Mar 08 |
Cheung Sha Wan, China: A senior fireman died and threeothers were overcome by smoke battling a six-hour blaze at a knitting factory. More information |
Monday
Mar 08 |
Houston, TX: A worker at a chicken processing plant died in an accident. More information |
Monday
Mar 08 |
New Britain, CT: A small explosion rocked a metal-treating factory. More information |
Monday
Mar 08 |
Rawlins, WY: An equipment malfunction at an oil refinery released more than 1,000 pounds ofhydrogen sulfide over a five-day period. More information |
Monday
Mar 08 |
Salem, VA: A tire plant was briefly evacuated when roofers ignited insulation atop thebuilding. More information |
Monday
Mar 08 |
San Juan County, NM: A lightning strike ignited a condensate tank at an oil well site. More information |
Monday
Mar 08 |
Scone, UK: Two workers suffered burns from an equipment fire at a wood processing plant. More information |
Monday
Mar 08 |
Wilmington, DE: A worker at a concrete contractor facility was severely burned when a storagetank being dismantled exploded. More information |
Saturday
Mar 06 |
Beaumont, TX: A brief fire damaged a crude distillation unit at an oil refinery. More information |
Saturday
Mar 06 |
Caythorpe, UK: A recycling plant fire involving hundreds of tons of peat, compost and woodburned more than a week. More information |
Saturday
Mar 06 |
Grove City, PA: A metal foundry that operated since the 1930s was destroyed by fire. More information |
Saturday
Mar 06 |
Gela, Italy: A small fire forced management to temporarily shutdown a crude distillation unit. More information |
Friday
Mar 05 |
Grimsby, UK: A chemical plant worker exposed to titanium tetrachloride fumes died nearly twoweeks later. More information |
Friday
Mar 05 |
Hanford, WA: A backhoe operator at a nuclear reservation died in an undisclosed excavationaccident. More information |
Friday
Mar 05 |
LaGrange, OH: A metal frame weighing more than a ton fell on theleg of a metal fabricating plant worker. More information |
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