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Entries for February 2011
Tuesday
Feb 08 |
Mont Belvieu, TX: Explosions and fire ripped through a Houston-area petroleum plant, leaving 1 person dead. More information |
Tuesday
Feb 08 |
Maldon, UK: Two chemical tanks have exploded during a blaze at a design manufacturing plant. More information |
Tuesday
Feb 08 |
Chandler, AZ: Nearly 300 gallons of xylene spilled out of a holding tank in a light industrial park. More information |
Tuesday
Feb 08 |
New York, NY: A tanker truck accident released its cargo of carbon dioxide. More information |
Tuesday
Feb 08 |
Durham, NC: 2 contractors at an electronics plant were treated for exposure to anhydrous ammonia. More information |
Tuesday
Feb 08 |
Cheverly, MD: About 100 employees were evacuated from a meat packing plant because of an ammonia leak. More information |
Monday
Feb 07 |
Eau Claire, WI: Machinery caught fire at an absorbent products plant. More information |
Monday
Feb 07 |
Dahej, India: 2 people died and 2 were injured when an empty gas tanker under repairs exploded. More information |
Monday
Feb 07 |
Daylam, Iran: A pipeline rupture caused a 20-kilometer oil slick along the Gulf shore. More information |
Monday
Feb 07 |
Capac, MI: A train derailment spilled fertilizer grade ammonium nitrate. More information |
Sunday
Feb 06 |
Arcadia, OH: A train carrying 33,000 gallons of ethanol derailed and caught fire. More information |
Sunday
Feb 06 |
Daylam, Iran: An aging oil pipeline ruptured, contaminating vast patches of coast and farmland. More information |
Sunday
Feb 06 |
Dahej, India: Welding triggered an explosion that destroyed an "empty" fuel tanker, killing 2 people. More information |
Sunday
Feb 06 |
Sudbury, ON: Problems with a furnace at a smelter caused a wall to collapse. More information |
Saturday
Feb 05 |
Colombo, Sri Lanka: An explosion at a shipbuilding facility injured 10 workers. More information |
Saturday
Feb 05 |
Uricani, Romania: 5 miners died in a coal mine explosion. More information |
Saturday
Feb 05 |
El-Arish, Egypt: An explosion rocked a gas, setting off a massive fire that was contained by shutting off the flow of gas to neighboring Jordan and Israel. More information |
Saturday
Feb 05 |
Karft bei Wittendorp, Germany: Fire broke out at a biogas plant. More information |
Friday
Feb 04 |
Wood River, IL: A refinery fire caused a wet gas compressor to trip. More information |
Friday
Feb 04 |
Delphi, IN: A dust fire erupted in a cob mill at an ethanol plant. More information |
Friday
Feb 04 |
Halden, Norway: A fire at a pulp plant supplying a paper mill halted the mill's entire production of magazine paper. More information |
Friday
Feb 04 |
Standard Way, UK: 600 litres of waterbased resin leaked at a chemical plant, forcing the shutdown of a nearby highway. More information |
Friday
Feb 04 |
Picabo, ID: A fuel trailer exploded and burned at a ranch, killing 1 person and ignited a second trailer. More information |
Thursday
Feb 03 |
Taloja, India: Firefighters fought a chemical plant fire for six hours. More information |
Thursday
Feb 03 |
Northallerton, UK: A leak involving waterbased resin forced the closure of a paint factory. More information |
Thursday
Feb 03 |
Radcliffe, UK: A vat containing 2,500 litres of copper sulphate caught fire at an electroplating plant. More information |
Thursday
Feb 03 |
Ankara, Turkey: An explosion collapsed 2 stories of a construction machinery factory, killing 3 people. More information |
Thursday
Feb 03 |
Nasrapur, India: A chemical plant worker died while another was seriously injured after being trapped in a mixing chamber partially filled with sticky resin. More information |
Thursday
Feb 03 |
Cubatao, Brazil: 4 contract workers were injured by an explosion in a steel plant furnace. More information |
Wednesday
Feb 02 |
Sioux Falls, SD: A collision involving an 18-wheeler spilled nearly 1,000 gallons of liquid fertilizer. More information |
Wednesday
Feb 02 |
Rayong, Thailand: Jet-fuel-contaminated water leaked from a refinery into a nearby waterway. More information |
Wednesday
Feb 02 |
Lisheen, Ireland: 1 person died in an underground explosion at a zinc ore mine. More information |
Wednesday
Feb 02 |
Deer Park, TX: An equipment failure at a refinery released an unknown amount of benzene. More information |
Tuesday
Feb 01 |
Pennsville Twp., NJ: A vent line broke at a pharmaceuticals plant, releasing bleach vapors. More information |
Tuesday
Feb 01 |
Moorpark, CA: A one gallon spill of hydrochloric acid and silica was enough to close a highway. More information |
Tuesday
Feb 01 |
Thousand Oaks, CA: A one-gallon container of muriatic acid fell out of a truck, shutting down traffic for two and a half hours. More information |
Tuesday
Feb 01 |
Sutatausa, Colombia: 5 coal miners died in an explosion. More information |
Tuesday
Feb 01 |
Shornur, India: 9 people died in an explosion at a fireworks factory. More information |
Tuesday
Feb 01 |
Ontario, NY: Sprinklers helped extinguish a fire when two motors at a biodiesel plant burned out. More information |