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Entries for October 2012
Monday
Oct 08 |
Lowecraft, UK: Responders applied a foam blanket when fire broke out near the fryers at a frozen food processing plant. More Information |
Monday
Oct 08 |
Molokai, HI: A pole fire outside a power plant left 5,000 residents in the dark. More Information |
Monday
Oct 08 |
Madison, OH: A worker at an automotive supplies factory suffered a crushed arm when it became caught in machinery. More Information |
Monday
Oct 08 |
Hanoi, Vietnam: A brick factory explosion killed a worker. More Information |
Sunday
Oct 07 |
Dublin, Ireland: Pollution warnings were issued when flames spread through a scrapyard. More Information |
Sunday
Oct 07 |
Jalgaon, India: 50 workers fell ill when chlorine leaked at a pipe making plant. More Information |
Sunday
Oct 07 |
Samba district, India: Fire gutted a pharmaceutical factory. More Information |
Sunday
Oct 07 |
Huaihua, China: An overturned tanker venting gas exploded, killing 3 firefighters. More Information |
Sunday
Oct 07 |
Bonny Island, Nigeria: Fire resulting from an attempt to steal crude oil from a pipeline forced an LNG producer to declare force majeure. More Information |
Sunday
Oct 07 |
Orebro, Sweden: An explosion in a turbine triggered a fire at a thermal power plant. More Information |
Saturday
Oct 06 |
Mombassa, Kenya: A tanker truck loaded with cooking oil fell into the ocean at a ferry ramp. More Information |
Saturday
Oct 06 |
Madison, MI: Firefighters quickly extinguished a small fire at a plastics plant. More Information |
Saturday
Oct 06 |
Port of Rotterdam, Netherlands: A transformer fire spread to a pipeline pumping station. More Information |
Saturday
Oct 06 |
Hunan province, China: 20 tons of LNG leaking from an overturned tanker ignited, killing 5 people. More Information |
Saturday
Oct 06 |
Kuala Kuang, Malaysia: Fire destroyed a fiberglass container plant. More Information |
Saturday
Oct 06 |
Moorhead, ND: Automatic fire suppression extinguished an oven fire that spread to a smokestack at a food services product plant. More Information |
Friday
Oct 05 |
Osmaniye, Turkey: An explosion in an electric arc furnace at a steel plant injured 18. More Information |
Friday
Oct 05 |
Wien, Austria: 29 workers at a shipping company were examined as a precaution when a fork-lift truck driver damaged a pallet with 25 containers of an isocyanate, causing a leak. More Information |
Friday
Oct 05 |
Tigard, OR: A worker died after his arm became trapped in machinery. More Information |
Friday
Oct 05 |
Springfield, IL: A brick factory worker suffered a serious head injury when he was pinned by a load of cement blocks. More Information |
Friday
Oct 05 |
Somercotes, UK: A vending machine fire spread through an industrial facility. More Information |
Friday
Oct 05 |
Karachi, Pakistan: Welding was being done when fire broke out at a tissue and diaper manufacturing plant. More Information |
Friday
Oct 05 |
Revere, MA: 2 firefighters were overcome by ammonia fumes during a fire at a candy plant. More Information |
Friday
Oct 05 |
Monmouth, IL: Debris behind a food processing plant caught fire. More Information |
Friday
Oct 05 |
Bokaro, India: 1 person was injured in a fire at a thermal power plant. More Information |
Thursday
Oct 04 |
Virudhunagar, India: 1 person died and 3 were injured in an explosion at a fireworks factory. More Information |
Thursday
Oct 04 |
Torrance, CA: A sulfur-like odor drifting from a refinery was blamed on an equipment malfunction. More Information |
Thursday
Oct 04 |
Sivakasi, India: 4 people making colored matchsticks were injured when fire broke out. More Information |
Thursday
Oct 04 |
Esfahan, Iran: Fire spread through a cellophane factory. More Information |
Thursday
Oct 04 |
Brisbane, Australia: Responders monitored an unexpected chemical reaction in a drum of acetone at a plant. More Information |
Thursday
Oct 04 |
Saratov, Russia: A fire at an oil refinery left 1 person injured. More Information |
Thursday
Oct 04 |
Salem, MO: Firefighters had to truck water 4 miles to a charcoal plant fire. More Information |
Wednesday
Oct 03 |
Gurdaspur, India: A worker died in a fire at a fireworks factory. More Information |
Wednesday
Oct 03 |
Lucknow, India: A boiler explosion at a plywood factory killed the manager. More Information |
Wednesday
Oct 03 |
Qormi, Malta: A building adjacent to a nylon knitting factory caught fire. More Information |
Wednesday
Oct 03 |
Chattanooga, TN: At least 500 gallons of gasoline have spilled from an underground 12-inch pipeline in a marshy area near the Tennessee River. More Information |
Wednesday
Oct 03 |
Sarikamis, Turkey: A terrorist attack on a pipeline shut down the gas supply from Azerbaijan. More Information |
Wednesday
Oct 03 |
Cleveland, OH: Fire broke out on a converyor belt at a plant making recycling containers. More Information |
Wednesday
Oct 03 |
Cologne, Germany: Firefighters responded to a chlorine leak at a chemical plant. More Information |
Wednesday
Oct 03 |
Midway, TX: 3 men sustained 3rd-degree burns when an oil storage tank exploded. More Information |
Wednesday
Oct 03 |
Saginaw, MI: Three people were treated for exposure to hazardous fumes at an aerospace plant. |
Wednesday
Oct 03 |
Needham, MA: A laboratory fire triggered by a chemical reaction burned a worker at a microwave components plant. More Information |
Wednesday
Oct 03 |
Blaenavon, UK: Firefighters quickly extinguished a machine fire at a stamping foils plant. More Information |
Wednesday
Oct 03 |
Everett, WA: A worker at an aircraft plant had to be freed from machinery. |
Wednesday
Oct 03 |
Ypsilanti, MI: A man got in a dispute with a co-worker over his job performance at a metal plating factory, then shot him to death. More Information |
Wednesday
Oct 03 |
Coimbatore, India: 200 tons of waste material used to fire kilns at a cement plant ignited. More Information |
Wednesday
Oct 03 |
Woodbridge, NJ: Emergency responders worked to clear propane vapors at a refinery truck rack due to a leak in a truck's line. More Information |
Wednesday
Oct 03 |
Banyung Lencir, Indonesia: A oil pipeline explosion killed 5 people and injured 18. More Information |
Wednesday
Oct 03 |
Bakersfield, CA: 1 worker died and another suffered a broken leg while cleaning the interior of a repaired storage tank at a power plant. More Information |
Wednesday
Oct 03 |
Baytown, TX: Firefighters worked 3½ hours to extinguish a fire in a refinery process unit. More Information |
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