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Entries for January 2012
Monday
Jan 23 |
Berkshire, UK: A tank containing 3,000 liters of herbicide split open after a traffic accident and threatened to drain into a nearby waterway. More information |
Monday
Jan 23 |
Stillwell, OK: FBI agents are investigating 3 explosions at a propane facility. More information |
Monday
Jan 23 |
Western Kuwait: Firefighters extinguished a natural gas pipeline fire at a booster station. More information |
Sunday
Jan 22 |
Tumut, Australia: 3 people were injured when fire broke out at a paper mill and burned several days. More information |
Sunday
Jan 22 |
Wakefield, MA: 1,000 gallons of oil leaked from an underground storage tank at a concrete plant. More information |
Sunday
Jan 22 |
Fayetteville, AR: A building used for document storage at a concrete plant caught fire. More information |
Sunday
Jan 22 |
Bradford, IL: Fire destroyed a furniture factory. More information |
Sunday
Jan 22 |
Melbourne, Australia: Residents up to four kilometres away from a fire at a scrap-metal factory have been warned to stay indoors because of the chance of toxic fumes. More information |
Sunday
Jan 22 |
Surat, India: 3 workers died of asphyxiation after a chemical spill at a plant making gold ornaments. More information |
Sunday
Jan 22 |
Stowe Twp., PA: Fire heavily damaged a foundry with fire crews taking extra precautions because of chemicals inside the facility. More information |
Sunday
Jan 22 |
Rockford, IL: A fire near the roof at a fiberglass plant send a firefighter to the hospital. More information |
Sunday
Jan 22 |
Timmons, ON: Fire broke out at a lumber mill. More information |
Sunday
Jan 22 |
Sindh, Pakistan: Terrorists claimed credit for a gas pipeline explosion. More information |
Sunday
Jan 22 |
Delmenhorst, Germany: A ruptured pipe leaked nearly 500 meters from the fermentation vessel at a biogas plant. More information |
Sunday
Jan 22 |
McKees Rocks, PA: 2 workers missing after a fire at a plant that makes axles for railroad cars were later found safe. More information |
Sunday
Jan 22 |
Tema, Ghana: An explosion at an electrical transmission plant left a significant part of the country without power. More information |
Sunday
Jan 22 |
Sitra, Bahrain: An electrical fire brought production to a halt at an aluminum foundry. More information |
Saturday
Jan 21 |
Brisbane, Australia: A gas explosion at a bus depot put half of the city's bus fleet temporarily out of service. More information |
Saturday
Jan 21 |
Mariveles, Philippines: Fire destroyed a shipyard warehouse stocked with ammonium nitrate fertilizer. More information |
Saturday
Jan 21 |
De Pere, WI: Flames spread to the roof insulation of a foundry. More information |
Saturday
Jan 21 |
Green Plaines, IN: Heat from a broken bearing ignited the corn mash beneath a silo at an ethanol plant. More information |
Saturday
Jan 21 |
Wesseling, Germany: An explosion at a polymer plant injured 7 people. More information |
Saturday
Jan 21 |
Bilal Colony, Pakistan: A worker died in a fire that destroyed a clothing factory. More information |
Saturday
Jan 21 |
Burns Lake, BC: 2 workers were found dead in the wreckage of a lumber mill days after an explosion and fire. More information |
Saturday
Jan 21 |
Mangalore, India: 1 worker died and 5 were injured in an explosion at an oil refinery. More information |
Saturday
Jan 21 |
Jinja, Uganda: Hundreds of tons of cotton and palm cake where destroyed in an oil mill fire. More information |
Saturday
Jan 21 |
New Karachi, Pakistan: A worker died from burns after a garment factory fire. More information |
Saturday
Jan 21 |
Wymondham, UK: A worker at an aluminum coating factory had to be rescued after being trapped beneath fallen girders. More information |
Saturday
Jan 21 |
Washington Twp., NJ: Nearly 26,000 gallons of diesel fuel spilled into a lake when a gasket burst on 2 two 20,000-gallon fuel tanks at a bus terminal. More information |
Friday
Jan 20 |
Topeka, KS: Flames gutted a cabinet making factory. More information |
Friday
Jan 20 |
Thomas Twp., MI: A vapor release at a semiconductor plant was confined to the plant site. More information |
Friday
Jan 20 |
Durban, S. Africa: 2 people died in an explosion at a chemical technologies factory. More information |
Friday
Jan 20 |
Stowmarket, UK: Fire crews responded to 2 chemical spills in 4 days at a paint factory. More information |
Friday
Jan 20 |
O'Farrell, GA: A worker fell 50 feet to his death from an oil derrick. More information |
Friday
Jan 20 |
Indio, CA: A newly installed ventilation fan caught fire at a packaging plant warehouse. More information |
Friday
Jan 20 |
Merced, CA: Firefighters responded to a chemical reaction at a plant specializing in industrial containers. More information |
Friday
Jan 20 |
Juneau, AK: Fire broke out in the mechanical room at a food flavorings plant. More information |
Friday
Jan 20 |
Logan County, OK: An explosion at an oil well site injured 4 workers. More information |
Friday
Jan 20 |
Melbourne, Australia: 7 people were treated for chest pains and breathing problems after a dockyard chemical spill. More information |
Friday
Jan 20 |
Rasht, Iran: An explosion and fire at a natural gas compressor station left a guard dead. More information |
Friday
Jan 20 |
Cano Limon Pipeline, Colombia: Colombia's second-longest pipeline was bombed by leftist rebels and pumping remains halted following an earlier attack one week ago on the same pipeline.
Read more: More information |
Friday
Jan 20 |
Paraguana, Venezuela: Fire broke out in a crude oil distillation unit at an oil refinery. More information |
Thursday
Jan 19 |
Reno, NV: A raging wildfire forced the partial shutdown of a geothermal power plant, causing a widespread power outage. More information |
Thursday
Jan 19 |
Williams Lake, BC: Fire broke out in the ash dump building at a power plant. More information |
Thursday
Jan 19 |
Christchurch, New Zealand: A fire ripped through a mushroom plant. More information |
Thursday
Jan 19 |
Mason City, IA: Sprinkler extinguished an air compressor fire at a manufacturing plant. More information |
Thursday
Jan 19 |
Boulby, UK: A worker suffered broken ribs and a punctured lung in an accident at a potash mine. More information |
Thursday
Jan 19 |
Bay of Plenty, New Zealand: A worker suffered injuries when he was crushed in a timber mill accident. More information |
Thursday
Jan 19 |
Pearsall, TX: An oil tanker explosion injured 3 people. More information |
Thursday
Jan 19 |
Lower Macungie, OH: A fire broke out in a paint room at a truck factory. More information |
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