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Entries for January 2012
Thursday
Jan 26 |
Butterworth, Malaysia: Wooden shops located less than 5 meters from a major tank farm were razed by fire. More information |
Thursday
Jan 26 |
Bibra Lake, Australia: A firefighter suffered minor burns battling a factory fire. More information |
Thursday
Jan 26 |
Middletown, OH: Fire broke out at a plant making custom tubing when a piece of aluminum stuck inside a pipe ignited. More information |
Thursday
Jan 26 |
Cornwall, ON: Fire broke out at a meat processing plant. More information |
Thursday
Jan 26 |
Lankaran, Azerbaijan: A boiler fire broke out at an industrial bakery. More information |
Thursday
Jan 26 |
Sydney, Australia: Residents were ordered to shelter-in-place when fire broke out at a waste transfer station. More information |
Thursday
Jan 26 |
Napier, New Zealand: A fire that raged for 3 hours destroyed a lamb processing plant. More information |
Thursday
Jan 26 |
County Durham, UK: An engineering firm worker survived being crushed from the waist down by an 8-ton piece of machinery on a railroad track. More information |
Thursday
Jan 26 |
Wuelfrath, Germany: A chemical derived from zinc acetate mixed with air and formed a cloud above a chemical plant that injured 9 people. More information |
Thursday
Jan 26 |
Inverness, UK: A small spill of ammonia at an industrial estate sent one worker to the hospital. More information |
Thursday
Jan 26 |
Knowsley, UK: 10 tons of sawdust burned in the second major fire at a chipboard factory in less than a year. More information |
Thursday
Jan 26 |
Lahore, Pakistan: Goods, machinery and manufactured paper products worth millions of rupees were destroyed when fire erupted in a cardboard factory. More information |
Thursday
Jan 26 |
Owensboro, KY: A silo at a closed furniture company burned down and forced firefighters to strain to keep the blaze from igniting other parts of the property. More information |
Thursday
Jan 26 |
Lansing, NY: Firefighters used foam to control a fire in a 200-ton bunker at a power plant. More information |
Wednesday
Jan 25 |
Miami, FL: A jetliner under maintenance dumped 2,200 gallons of fuel inside an airport hanger. More information |
Wednesday
Jan 25 |
Crawfordsville, IN: A small fire broke out at a commercial printing plant. More information |
Wednesday
Jan 25 |
Avon Lake, OH: A fire broke out in some spare parts storage bins at an auto plant. More information |
Wednesday
Jan 25 |
Kalamazoo, MI: Sprinkler extinguished a machine fire at a manufacturing plant. More information |
Wednesday
Jan 25 |
Basingstoke, UK: An equipment fire broke out at a dry cleaning factory. More information |
Wednesday
Jan 25 |
St. Cloud, MN: Fire ignited at a foundry in the duct system connected to the dust collector. More information |
Wednesday
Jan 25 |
Sed al-Boushriyeh, Lebanon: The owner of a shoe factory suffered a heart attack as flames raced through the facility. More information |
Wednesday
Jan 25 |
Jacksonville, FL: 2 people were overcome by fumes, triggering an evacuation at a rechargeable battery manufacturing plant. More information |
Wednesday
Jan 25 |
Columbus, MS: An accidental fire foam dump at an air force base flooded several holes of the base golf course. More information |
Tuesday
Jan 24 |
Abbotsford, BC: A crude spill at an oil terminal was captured by secondary containment. More information |
Tuesday
Jan 24 |
Duque de Caxias, Brazil: Operations at an oil refinery distilling unit restarted within hours after a fire. More information |
Tuesday
Jan 24 |
Vernal, UT: A worker was severely injured in an industrial accident on a drilling rig. More information |
Tuesday
Jan 24 |
Oswaldtwistle, UK: A fire that destroyed a closed chemical plant is being investigated as arson. More information |
Tuesday
Jan 24 |
Point Henry, Australia: Fire ignited in the pump house at an aluminum smelter. More information |
Tuesday
Jan 24 |
West Palm Beach, FL: An explosion at a solid waste treatment plant sent a worker to the hospital. More information |
Tuesday
Jan 24 |
Witchita, KS: A worker using a cutting torch at a recycling plant was injured in a flash fire. More information |
Tuesday
Jan 24 |
McKittrick, CA: A vacuum truck exploded at an oil processing plant. More information |
Tuesday
Jan 24 |
Lykens, PA: A large fire broke out at a metals recycling plant. More information |
Tuesday
Jan 24 |
Ulverstone, Australia: The second fire in a month broke out at a factory responsible for 60 percent of the worldwide pyrethrum insecticide production. More information |
Tuesday
Jan 24 |
Trenton, NS: Fire broke out in the pump room at a foundry specializing in heavy open-die forgings. More information |
Tuesday
Jan 24 |
Melbourne, Australia: Nearly 800 workers were evacuated from a rendering plant when a machine that crushes bones caught fire. More information |
Tuesday
Jan 24 |
Wallingford, CN: A steel plant worker got his arm caught between 2 metal rollers. More information |
Tuesday
Jan 24 |
Phoenix, AZ: Fire broke out at a recycling plant. More information |
Tuesday
Jan 24 |
Cannington, ON: A natural gas leak forced the evacuation of a plant making bulk material handling and conveyor equipment. More information |
Tuesday
Jan 24 |
Salina Cruz, Mexico: A leak involving a crude oil pipeline was reported. More information |
Tuesday
Jan 24 |
Kampung Pasir Putih, Malaysia: Fire destroyed a plastics recycling plant and a waste management company. More information |
Monday
Jan 23 |
Benton, MI: An oven used to heat parts caught fire at a factory that coats industrial steel for automotive parts and other product. More information |
Monday
Jan 23 |
Berezniki, Russia: Fire broke out in a vacuum crystallization unit at a potash plant. More information |
Monday
Jan 23 |
Hartsville, SC: An electrical fire in the control cabinet of a polar crane shutdown a nuclear power plant. More information |
Monday
Jan 23 |
Oklahoma City, OK: An equipment fire spread through a metals recycling plant. More information |
Monday
Jan 23 |
Franklin, IN: The sprinkler system at a plastics plant extinguished a fire that followed a maintenance room explosion. More information |
Monday
Jan 23 |
Odisha, India: 3 residents of a nearby slum died when a storage tank filled with molasses burst at a sugar refinery. More information |
Monday
Jan 23 |
Pinellas Park, FL: Haz mat responders evacuated workers from a warehouse after mixed chemicals reacted. More information |
Monday
Jan 23 |
Sydney, Australia: A warehouse fire that spread through half a chemical complex followed a fire that gutted the offices by 1 week. More information |
Monday
Jan 23 |
Riverview, New Zealand: A paint factory was gutted by a fire that forced the evacuation of nearby residents More information |
Monday
Jan 23 |
Vantaa, Finland: Nearly 250 people were evacuated after an ammonia leak at a food processing plant. More information |
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