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Entries for January 2012
Wednesday
Jan 11 |
Baku, Azerbaijan: A burst pipeline spilled crude oil over a 50-square-meter area. More information |
Wednesday
Jan 11 |
Gowanda, NY: 2 workers at a sewage treatment plant were injured by a welding equipment explosion. More information |
Wednesday
Jan 11 |
Mockville, NC: A conveyor belt caught fire at a flooring and cabinetry factory. More information |
Wednesday
Jan 11 |
Manchester, PA: 2 workers at a machinery plant became ill after inhaling a silca-type powder found on an unopened box. More information |
Wednesday
Jan 11 |
Boise, ID: Firefighters extinguished a small fire in a reseach and development building at a semiconductor company. More information |
Tuesday
Jan 10 |
Feldkirchen-Westerham, Germany: Following a pump failure, slurry spilled from a biogas plant and spread into local waters. More information |
Tuesday
Jan 10 |
Southern Veracruz, Mexico: Mexican authorities battled a 1500-barrel pipeline spill in southern Veracruz just kilometres away from the Coatzacoalcos River. More information |
Tuesday
Jan 10 |
Kings Mountain, NC: A machine fire spread to cotton lint at a textile plant. More information |
Tuesday
Jan 10 |
Trenton, NJ: Arson is suspected in a fire that damaged one floor of a former doll factory. More information |
Tuesday
Jan 10 |
Noonmati, India: A storage tank caught fire at an LPG bottling plant, injuring 7 people. More information |
Tuesday
Jan 10 |
Minatitlan, Mexico: An explosion in a hydrotreater rocked an oil refinery. More information |
Tuesday
Jan 10 |
Canton Twp., OH: Nearly 450 gallons of wastewater spilled at a drilling wellpad when someone tampered with a valve. More information |
Tuesday
Jan 10 |
Brimfield Twp., OH: An overturned tanker truck spilled 36,000 gallons of flammable diisobutylene. More information |
Tuesday
Jan 10 |
Livingston, UK: More than 20 people complained of breathing difficulties after a spill of denatonium benzoate at a pallet plant. More information |
Tuesday
Jan 10 |
Plovdiv, Bulgaria: 3 workers were injured in an explosion at the country's largest military munitions plant. More information |
Tuesday
Jan 10 |
York County, PA: A small fire broke out in the dust collection system of a motorcycle plant. More information |
Tuesday
Jan 10 |
Austin, TX: A fire in a shredder burned 2 workers at a recycling plant. More information |
Tuesday
Jan 10 |
St. Louis, MO: A worker died after being crushed inside a clam shell die casting machine. More information |
Tuesday
Jan 10 |
Minster, OH: An accident involving an overhead crane at a foundry left a worker dead. More information |
Tuesday
Jan 10 |
Guwahati, India: Fire broke out in a slop tank at an oil refinery. More information |
Tuesday
Jan 10 |
Johnsonville, SC: Firefighters battled an equipment fire at a plastics recycling plant. More information |
Monday
Jan 09 |
Chachoengsao, Thailand: Fumes from a ruptured container caused 20 paint factory workers to faint. More information |
Monday
Jan 09 |
Tupelo, MS: An equipment fire broke out at a mattress factory. More information |
Monday
Jan 09 |
Spokane, WA: A trailer loaded with construction material caught fire at a utility company. More information |
Monday
Jan 09 |
Dade City, FL: A broken valve on a storage tank spilled anhydrous ammonia at an industrial park. More information |
Monday
Jan 09 |
Jalan Labis, Malaysia: A series of six explosions rocked a chemical plant that was consumed by fire. More information |
Monday
Jan 09 |
Merredin, Australia: A truck towing two trailers loaded with chlorine compounds and mineral oil caught fire. More information |
Monday
Jan 09 |
Erwin, TN: A facility handling nuclear fuel was shutdown after nitric acid leaked from an outdoor storage site. More information |
Monday
Jan 09 |
Houston, TX: Firefighters battled a fire at a warehouse that contained a vat of acid and other possible hazardous material. More information |
Monday
Jan 09 |
Puerto Piray, Argentina: 1 of 9 workers injured in a boiler explosion at a power plant later died. More information |
Monday
Jan 09 |
Macheng, China: 2 oil tankers loaded with 20 tons of petroleum caught fire at a gas station. More information |
Monday
Jan 09 |
Nikiski, AK: A 6,300 gallon oil spill at a power plant was captured by secondary containment. More information |
Sunday
Jan 08 |
Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany: A crack in a kerosene tank caused a fire in a petrochemical plant. More information |
Sunday
Jan 08 |
Oyu Tolgoi, Mongolia: A fire that broke out at the emulsion plant for Mongolia's largest copper-gold project has been extinguished. More information |
Sunday
Jan 08 |
Barrancabermeja, Columbia: 4 people aboard a military helicopter were injured when the aircraft went down in a refinery, causing a small fire. More information |
Sunday
Jan 08 |
Christmas Island, Australia: Monsoon weather broke a freighter loaded with phosphate from its moorings and smashed it against rocks. More information |
Sunday
Jan 08 |
Beaumont, TX: A gas compressor breakdown at an oil refinery forced the flaring of hydrogen sulfide and sulfur dioxide releases. More information |
Sunday
Jan 08 |
Daugavpils, Latvia: Almost 180 tons of bitumen and solvent spilled when a freight train derailed. More information |
Sunday
Jan 08 |
Jaipur, India: 3 workers died one by one after they climbed into a refinery oil tank. More information |
Sunday
Jan 08 |
Herington, KS: Almost 11,000 gallons of sulfuric acid leaked from a rail yard into a nearby creek. More information |
Sunday
Jan 08 |
Orissa, India: Workers fled upon learning that nearly 3,000 detonators had been brought into a thermal power plant. More information |
Sunday
Jan 08 |
Songjiang, China: Workers fled as fire spread through a workshop at a food processing plant. More information |
Sunday
Jan 08 |
Ulsan, S. Korea: A worker at an automotive engine plant set himself ablaze as a labor protest. More information |
Sunday
Jan 08 |
Kooragang Island, Australia: A lightning bolt struck the stack of an ammonia plant that was venting hydrogen, sparking a fire.
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Saturday
Jan 07 |
Belfast Lough, UK: Work is under way to take thousands of tons of oil off a damaged sea tanker. More information |
Saturday
Jan 07 |
Spartanburg, SC: A tanker truck overturned with leaking fuel closing down 2 major roadways. More information |
Saturday
Jan 07 |
Denver, CO: Workers used vacuum trucks to suck up an unidentified liquid leaking from a refinery into a creek north of downtown. More information |
Saturday
Jan 07 |
Aqaba, Jordan: 1 of five workers overcome by carbon dioxide while repairing an ammonium fluoride storage tank died. More information |
Saturday
Jan 07 |
Shenzhou, China: 6 people died and 2 were injured in an explosion at a geothermal plant. More information |
Friday
Jan 06 |
Porter County, IN: Fire followed the collision of three freight trains on two parallel tracks. More information |
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