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Entries for August 2011
Sunday
Aug 14 |
Barre, VT: Fire broke out at a granite polishing plant. More information |
Saturday
Aug 13 |
Badulla, Sri Lanka: A boiler at a tea factory exploded, killing 3 people. More information |
Saturday
Aug 13 |
Pasadena, TX: Fire broke out in an exterior pit at a chemical plant. More information |
Saturday
Aug 13 |
Erie, PA: A fire at a water treatment plant was quickly extinguished by plant personnel. More information |
Saturday
Aug 13 |
Hilbert, WI: Nearly 75,000 bales of alfalfa burned at an agricultural mill. More information |
Friday
Aug 12 |
Gillman, Australia: Workers at a recycling plant were evacuated when a radiation alarm sounded. More information |
Friday
Aug 12 |
Biron, WI: An explosion in the coal dust-collection system at a paper mill injured 3 workers, including one who was airlifted with severe burns. More information |
Friday
Aug 12 |
Carboneras, Spain: Methanol vapors caught fire in a silo filled with clay used in clarifying biodiesel. More information |
Friday
Aug 12 |
Lansing, MI: A fire originating in a furnace broke out at a steel plant. More information |
Thursday
Aug 11 |
St. George, UT: Residual fuel inside a 10,000 gallon storage tank being cut up ignited at a metals recycling center. More information |
Thursday
Aug 11 |
Warren Twp., OH: An explosion at a melt shop and casting mill injured 5 people. More information |
Wednesday
Aug 10 |
Fond du Lac, WI: A worker at a scrap metal recycling plant died when he became trapped in a machine used to shear metal. More information |
Wednesday
Aug 10 |
Biggs, CA: A propane leak at a food processing plant forced police to close a nearby road. More information |
Wednesday
Aug 10 |
Bahia Blanca, Argentina: An explosion in a rest room at an oil refinery killed a worker and injured another More information |
Wednesday
Aug 10 |
Canton, OH: Minimal damage resulted from a fire in an oil-quenching tank at a metals foundry. More information |
Wednesday
Aug 10 |
Lowell, IN: A demolition crew was at work when a large fire destroyed a closed auto parts factory. More information |
Wednesday
Aug 10 |
Point Comfort, TX: A fire ignited while plastics plant personnel dismantled a decommissioned brine-water heat exchanger. More information |
Wednesday
Aug 10 |
Windsor, ON: Responders spent 6 hours trying to flush foul smelling runoff waste from the sewers beneath an auto plant. More information |
Wednesday
Aug 10 |
London, UK: Trucks at a recycling plant caught fire in the midst of a local riot. More information |
Wednesday
Aug 10 |
Tonawanda, NY: A fire at a tire plant was extinguished within an hour. More information |
Tuesday
Aug 09 |
Padarchol, Azerbaijan: 4 people were killed and at least 12 injured when a vehicle transporting propane gas exploded. More information |
Tuesday
Aug 09 |
Sylmar, CA: 2 people suffered critical injuries when an explosion ripped through a building housing an alternative-energy business, tearing off the roof.
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Tuesday
Aug 09 |
Cedar Rapids, IA: Nearly 200 gallons of hydrochloric acid leaked from a tanker truck at an agricultural products plant. More information |
Tuesday
Aug 09 |
Anmoore, WV: A 23,000-volt transformer exploded and burned at a plant specializing in grafite products. More information |
Tuesday
Aug 09 |
Eastlake, OH: A battery related explosion and fire at a plant that recycles computers injured 7 workers. More information |
Tuesday
Aug 09 |
Johnson City, TN: A tanker truck overturned on an interstate highway. More information |
Monday
Aug 08 |
London, UK: Rioters torched a distribution center for an optical storage media plant making CDs, DVDs and Blu-ray discs. More information |
Monday
Aug 08 |
Moscow, Russia: Welding work was underway when fire broke out on the roof of a meatpacking plant. More information |
Monday
Aug 08 |
Carrollton, TX: Fire in a mountain of trash kept responders busy at a recycling plant.
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Monday
Aug 08 |
Camilla, GA: Ten tons of feed was damaged by a smoldering fire that broke out at an ethanol plant. More information |
Monday
Aug 08 |
Newton, IL: Fire broke out at a plant specializing in heat transfer equipment for industry. More information |
Monday
Aug 08 |
Sepanggar Bay, Malaysia: A fire at a power plant spread to a tank containing more than 23,000 gallons of fuel. More information |
Monday
Aug 08 |
Chungho, Taiwan: Fire broke out at a computer components plant. More information |
Monday
Aug 08 |
Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia: A fire at a power plant spread to a fuel tank. More information |
Monday
Aug 08 |
Taizhou, China: 7 people were injured in an explosion and fire at a chemical plant. More information |
Sunday
Aug 07 |
Berre-L'Etang, France: A fire at a refinery released chemicals that caused a noxious odor apparent from miles away. More information |
Sunday
Aug 07 |
Chester, PA: A man was burned when a propane tank exploded on a forklift at a paper products plant. More information |
Sunday
Aug 07 |
Wellsville, NY: An accident took the life of a worker at a plant making heavy industrial equipment for the energy market. More information |
Sunday
Aug 07 |
South Ockendon, UK: A gasoline tanker burned in a fire that destroyed several buildings. More information |
Sunday
Aug 07 |
Santa Ynez, CA: An engine fire in a gasoline tanker caused a small brush fire but firefighter kept it from spreading to the storage tanks. More information |
Sunday
Aug 07 |
Surat, India: A worker died, while 8 others were affected by leaking gas at a chemical unit at an industrial estate. More information |
Saturday
Aug 06 |
Big Springs, TX: A gas compressor caught fire at an oil refinery. More information |
Saturday
Aug 06 |
Darlington, SC: Fire broke out in a turbine at a power plant. More information |
Friday
Aug 05 |
Louisville, KY: Fire crews responded to a minor chemical leak at a synthetic rubber plant after a tank over-pressurized, venting hazardous vapors. More information |
Friday
Aug 05 |
Sioux Falls, SD: Fire broke out in packing material at a meatpacking plant. More information |
Friday
Aug 05 |
Harbin, China: 2 of 4 people injured in an explosion at a disinfectant factory later died More information |
Friday
Aug 05 |
Virudhunagar, India: A fire triggered an explosion at a fireworks factory that killed 5 people. More information |
Friday
Aug 05 |
Sumner, Australia: A factory specializing in water treatment chemicals caught fire with loud explosions heard. More information |
Friday
Aug 05 |
Plymouth, UK: Fire broke out at a tire factory in an industrial estate. More information |
Friday
Aug 05 |
Mornington, Australia: A fire at a disused factory was quickly extinguished. More information |
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