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Entries for August 2010
Thursday
Aug 26 |
Forest Park, GA: A loading dock fire spread to stored pine oil at a household chemical plant. More information |
Thursday
Aug 26 |
Kansas City, KS: A trash compactor at an auto plant caught fire and was quickly extinguished. More information |
Thursday
Aug 26 |
San Jose, CA: A fire at an asphalt plant disabled a mixing unit. More information |
Thursday
Aug 26 |
Visalia, CA: A mobile home caught fire parked near the city's industrial park. More information |
Thursday
Aug 26 |
Jandira, Brazil: Fire broke out at a paint factory near Sao Paulo. More information |
Thursday
Aug 26 |
Qilu, China: A small fire forced an 800,000 ton per year ethylene plant to shut one furnace. More information |
Wednesday
Aug 25 |
Richmond, MS: A stack of nearly 300 pallets caught fire outside a pallet factory. More information |
Wednesday
Aug 25 |
Livingston, UK: A chemical incident team was called to a gas leak at an air conditioning plant More information |
Wednesday
Aug 25 |
Shongloo, LA - An explosion at a natural gas compressor station left an employee critically injured. More information |
Wednesday
Aug 25 |
Rockmart, AL: Twenty-eight employees were treated at area hospitals after an ammonia leak at poultry plant. More information |
Wednesday
Aug 25 |
Littlehampton, UK: Three men have been arrested after a fire destroyed a factory on an industrial estate. More information |
Wednesday
Aug 25 |
Merritt, BC: A fire that broke out in a hog fuel pile at a bio-mass facility was quickly extinguished. More information |
Wednesday
Aug 25 |
Canby, OR: An injured recycling center worker was airlifted after being crushed by a garbage truck. More information |
Wednesday
Aug 25 |
Shongaloo, LA: A worker suffered burns to 85 percent of his body when a flash fire ignited at a natural gas compressor station. More information |
Wednesday
Aug 25 |
Agri, Turkey: A pipeline explosion killed two people and injured one. More information |
Wednesday
Aug 25 |
Dhaka, Bangladesh: An explosion in a steel mill left one person dead and eight injured. More information |
Wednesday
Aug 25 |
Hillsborough, NJ: Sulfuric acid fumes were released into the air at a chemical plant specializing in sanitizers. More information |
Wednesday
Aug 25 |
Daxing, China: An oil depot exploded near a subway station. More information |
Tuesday
Aug 24 |
Wellesley, ON: A man was injured in an industrial accident at a manufacturing facility. More information |
Tuesday
Aug 24 |
Muroran, Japan: A refinery fire shut down a 45,000 barrels per day mild hydrocracker. More information |
Tuesday
Aug 24 |
Koja, Indonesia: An explosion at a welding gas refill center killed two people and injured three. More information |
Monday
Aug 23 |
Delhi, India: A 22-year-old embroidery factory worker died when he was hit by a dump truck. More information |
Monday
Aug 23 |
Salaata, North Lebanon: Fires erupted in a sulfur cargo on a vessel docked at the Salaata seaport. More information |
Monday
Aug 23 |
Columbus, OH: A forklift repairman died when he was pinned by equipment at a warehouse. More information |
Monday
Aug 23 |
Everett, WA: A naval station supply center was evacuated when a package later determined to be cleaning agent leaked. More information |
Monday
Aug 23 |
Bryan, OH: An explosion injured a worker at a tire plant specializing in off-highway wheels. More information |
Monday
Aug 23 |
Kidderminster, UK: Fire broke out at a metal anodising factory. More information |
Monday
Aug 23 |
Chancellor, SD: Dust ignited in a dryer at a ethanol plant. More information |
Monday
Aug 23 |
Theodore, AL: At least 50 people were treated after 300 gallons of ammonia vapor leaked from a refrigeration plant. More information |
Monday
Aug 23 |
Halltown, WV: A heavy shredding machine overheated, ignited a fire at a paperboard factory. More information |
Monday
Aug 23 |
Belpre, WV: A roof fire at a plastics plant sent an emergency responder to the hospital with dehydration. More information |
Monday
Aug 23 |
Herald, CA: A single bird is to blame for a 10-acre wildfire near the Rancho Seco Nuclear Power Plant. More information |
Monday
Aug 23 |
Zhongwei, China: Storage tanks with benzene organics caught fire and exploded at a chemical plant. More information |
Monday
Aug 23 |
Sylvania Twp., OH: A burglar alarm at a metal finishing plant was set off by a cloud of chemical vapor. More information |
Monday
Aug 23 |
Faisalabad, Pakistan: Six people were killed and over a dozen wounded when a road tanker carrying oil exploded. More information |
Monday
Aug 23 |
Wetteren, Belgium: An explosion rocked a chemical plant. More information |
Monday
Aug 23 |
Vlotho, Germany: An ammonia leak forced 46 workers to evacuate a chemical plant. More information |
Sunday
Aug 22 |
Qingzhou City, China: Six people died and nearly a dozen injured in a fireworks factory explosion.factory in southwest China, state-run media reported. More information |
Sunday
Aug 22 |
Panoli, India: A contract worker died while cleaning a paper pulp storage tank. More information |
Sunday
Aug 22 |
Qingzhou City, China: Six people were killed and nearly a dozen others were injured after an explosion at a fireworks factory. More information |
Sunday
Aug 22 |
Beatrice, NE: Nitrogen plant employees working atop 35 feet of scaffolding were injured in a flash fire. More information |
Sunday
Aug 22 |
Norton, MA: Firefighters rescued a food distribution warehouse worker who was pinned between a truck trailer and a loading dock. More information |
Sunday
Aug 22 |
Portland, CT: Liquid emulsifier caught fire at an asphalt plant, damaging a portion of the facility. More information |
Sunday
Aug 22 |
St. Peters, MO: Sprinklers helped confine a fire that broke out in a plant that makes caps and novelty gifts. More information |
Sunday
Aug 22 |
Fallon, NV: A hydrochloric acid spill during a delivery to a water treatment plant caused a massive haz mat response. More information |
Saturday
Aug 21 |
BahÃa las Minas, Panama: Fire broke out at an oil refinery. More information |
Saturday
Aug 21 |
Niles, OH: More than 19,000 gallons of gasoline spilled as it was being loaded onto a truck. More information |
Saturday
Aug 21 |
Malerkotla, India: At least five workers at a paper factory were killed in a boiler explosion.
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Saturday
Aug 21 |
Boston, MA: Responders were ordered out of a burning warehouse seconds before it collapsed. More information |
Friday
Aug 20 |
Hami City, China: Two people died and another remains missing in a coal mine gas blast that injured 23. More information |
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