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Entries for March 2011
Monday
Mar 14 |
LaGrange, IL: 8 workers at an electronics factory were hospitalized after an acetone spill. More information |
Monday
Mar 14 |
Ahmedabad, India: A major fire broke out in a chemical manufacturing factory. More information |
Monday
Mar 14 |
La Grange, IL: 8 workers at an electronics plant fell ill from the fumes of a chemical used to clean spilled ink. More information |
Monday
Mar 14 |
Haldia, India: Fire broke out at a plastic manufacturing plant. More information |
Monday
Mar 14 |
Gardnersville, Liberia: A mattress factory fire spread to a high school and a nearby residence. More information |
Monday
Mar 14 |
Carteret, NJ: A fire started in a manifold area of a 7.7 million barrel oil products terminal. More information |
Monday
Mar 14 |
Mason City, IA: Fire broke out at an ethanol plant when a power failure stalled heated material in a duct. More information |
Sunday
Mar 13 |
Udyog Nagar, India: A shoe sole factory caught fire. More information |
Sunday
Mar 13 |
Lower Granite Dam, WA: An oil spill into the Snake River was traced to one of the dam's turbines. More information |
Sunday
Mar 13 |
Banbury, UK: Fire broke out on the bread production line at an industrial bakery. More information |
Sunday
Mar 13 |
Middleton, MA: An explosion at a chemical plant making adhesives shook a neighborhood and sent 4 people to the hospital More information |
Saturday
Mar 12 |
Haverhill, UK: Flames gutted a plastics factory. More information |
Saturday
Mar 12 |
Fukushima Prefecture, Japan: A cooling failure at a nuclear power plant after an earthquake and tsunami led to an explosion and concerns about a potential meltdown. More information |
Saturday
Mar 12 |
Clover, SC: A machine fire ignited cotton particles in filtration ducts at a yarn factory. More information |
Saturday
Mar 12 |
Swansea, UK: A shelter-in-place order was issued for residents near a burning plant specializing in titanium products. More information |
Saturday
Mar 12 |
Plymouth, UK: Fire broke out in a silo containing rubber at a rubber factory. More information |
Saturday
Mar 12 |
Tokai, Japan: Cooling was restored within several days to a nuclear power reactor that automatically shut down in the wake of an earthquake and tsunami. More information |
Saturday
Mar 12 |
Malacca, Malaysia: Leaking ammonia exploded at a local factory. More information |
Saturday
Mar 12 |
Panxian County, China: A coal mine explosion killed 19 people. More information |
Saturday
Mar 12 |
Sengalipalayam, India: A 3-story chemical factory and about 1.5 tons of adhesives were destroyed by fire. More information |
Friday
Mar 11 |
Shiogama, Japan: Fire followed an explosion at a petrochemical complex rocked by a 9.0 magnitude earthquake. More information |
Friday
Mar 11 |
Ichihara, Japan: Fire spread through a petrochemical complex after a 9.0 magnitude earthquake. More information |
Friday
Mar 11 |
Chiba, Japan: Fire broke out a chemical factory shaken by a massive earthquake. More information |
Friday
Mar 11 |
Ichihara, Japan: Fire erupted at a 220,000 bbl/day oil refinery damaged by a massive earthquake. More information |
Friday
Mar 11 |
Kashima, Japan: An earthquake shut down a paraxylene plant. More information |
Friday
Mar 11 |
Sendai, Japan: A massive earthquake left a 145,000 bbl/day oil refinery shut down. More information |
Friday
Mar 11 |
Kashima, Japan: Damage from an earthquake left a 189,000 bbl/day crude oil refinery shut down. More information |
Friday
Mar 11 |
Negishi, Japan: Earthquake damage left a 270,000 bbl/day crude oil refinery shut down. More information |
Friday
Mar 11 |
Fukushima, Japan: Cooling system backup failed at a nuclear power complex hit by earthquake and tsunami damage, threatening a meltdown. More information |
Friday
Mar 11 |
Kasumigaura, Japan: An earthquake damaged a food processing plant. More information |
Friday
Mar 11 |
Wagga Wagga, Australia: Noxious fumes at a recycling plant left 4 workers hospitalized. More information |
Friday
Mar 11 |
Munnar, India: Fire destroyed 125 tons of tea at a factory making instant tea. More information |
Friday
Mar 11 |
New Haven, WV: An explosion and fire at an alloys manufacturing plant injured 2 workers. More information |
Friday
Mar 11 |
Aniak, AK: A 23,000-gallon fuel spill happened at a tank farm. More information |
Friday
Mar 11 |
Miyagi Prefecture, Japan: A fire broke out in the turbine building of Onagawa nuclear plant after an 8.9-magnitude earthquake. More information |
Friday
Mar 11 |
Elk Grove Village, IL: A fire broke out at a printed circuit board plant after a gas-fired oven unit malfunctioned. More information |
Friday
Mar 11 |
Tokyo, Japan: A system for keeping nuclear fuel cool failed at a power plant after an earthquake. More information |
Friday
Mar 11 |
Chiba, Japan: A huge explosion was reported at a steel plant following a magnitude 8.9 earthquake. More information |
Friday
Mar 11 |
Chiba, Japan: Fire swept through a major oil refinery northeast of Tokyo after an massive earthquake. More information |
Friday
Mar 11 |
Yokohama, Japan: Smoke poured from the city's industrial district following a massive earthquake. More information |
Friday
Mar 11 |
Tochigi, Japan: 2 people were killed during an earthquake by a collapsing ceiling at an auto factory. More information |
Friday
Mar 11 |
Northgate, Australia: Four workers were treated for burns after a machine fire at a steel plant. More information |
Friday
Mar 11 |
Lindsay, ON: Fire gutted a former textile factory that had been disconnected from water. More information |
Thursday
Mar 10 |
Ivanteyevka, Russia: 4 Vietnamese nationals died in a fire at a sewing plant. More information |
Thursday
Mar 10 |
Dhaka, Bangladesh: 8 people died when a raging fire swept through a roof-top shed of a garment-dyeing factory. More information |
Thursday
Mar 10 |
Vinland, WI: Fire destroyed a building formerly used for refrigerated cheese storage. More information |
Thursday
Mar 10 |
Pundhara, India: An ammonia leak at an ice cream plant affected nearly 40 workers. More information |
Thursday
Mar 10 |
Lafourche, LA: A blowout at an oil rig closed a major highway much of the morning. More information |
Wednesday
Mar 09 |
Kansas City, MO: HazMat crews used dry ice to put out a fire in a large container of epoxy and calcium nitrate. More information |
Wednesday
Mar 09 |
Pandesara, India: Responders fought a dying mill fire for 4 and a half hours. More information |
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