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Entries for February 2012
Wednesday
Feb 22 |
Ellesmere, UK: Fire broke out in a workshop at a uranium enrichment plant. More information |
Wednesday
Feb 22 |
Jackson County, WI: Firefighters are calling a manufacturing plant a total loss after a morning fire. More information |
Wednesday
Feb 22 |
Boulder, CO: Firefighters contained a fast-moving grass fire near an electronics plant. More information |
Wednesday
Feb 22 |
Gadag, India: A cotton gin fire destroyed as many as 12,000 bales of ginned cotton, 9,000 bags of raw cotton and 500 tons of cotton seeds. More information |
Wednesday
Feb 22 |
Ras Al Khaimah, UAE: 5 workers received moderate to severe burns in a factory fire. More information |
Wednesday
Feb 22 |
Fort Worth, TX: A scissor lift operator at a plant that makes locomotives fell 40 feet when the lift toppled over. More information |
Wednesday
Feb 22 |
Elk Grove Village, IL: A worker at a plant making artistic and industrial clay lost a portion of her hand when it became caught in a mixer. More information |
Wednesday
Feb 22 |
Newark, NJ: A worker unloading a ship was crushed to death between 2 railroad-car-sized metal containers. More information |
Wednesday
Feb 22 |
Batley, UK: An explosion at a food processing plant involving a fuel tank being decommissioned injured 6 people, 1 seriously. More information |
Wednesday
Feb 22 |
Suez, Egypt: 4 people died and 5 were injured when the floor beneath them collapsed during a fire in the lubricating oil section of a refinery. More information |
Wednesday
Feb 22 |
San Fernando City, Phillipines: An underwater fuel pipeline seeped while a ship was unloading its diesel oil cargo. More information |
Wednesday
Feb 22 |
Takehara, Japan: Operations at a 700-megawatt coal-fired unit at a power plant followed a fire in one of the turbines.
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Wednesday
Feb 22 |
Ponce Enriquez de Azuay, Ecuador: A mine explosion killed 5 miners and injured 15 more. More information |
Wednesday
Feb 22 |
Bielefeld, Germany: An explosion in an induction furnace at a metals plant injured 3 people. More information |
Wednesday
Feb 22 |
Jiangshan, China: Chlorine spilled due to a highway accident forced the evacuation of nearly 300 people. More information |
Wednesday
Feb 22 |
Palm Bay, FL: 1 worker was burned and another overcome by fumes dealing with a nitric acid spill at a company that recycles electronic circuit boards.
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Wednesday
Feb 22 |
Richhill, PA: A pipeline worker was airlifted after his leg became caught between the track and a metal cross member on a pipelayer. More information |
Tuesday
Feb 21 |
Newcastle, S. Africa: Cattle deaths along the Ngagane River has been traced to cyanide dumped by a chemical plant. More information |
Tuesday
Feb 21 |
Casa Grande, AZ: Fuel spilled from an overturned tanker. More information |
Tuesday
Feb 21 |
Sumgait, Azerbaijan: Flames were reported at a ethylene-polypropylene plant. More information |
Tuesday
Feb 21 |
Lowell, MA: A worker at a plant making polymer-coated fabrics was injured when both arms were caught in a machine. More information |
Tuesday
Feb 21 |
Tredworth, UK: 30 homes were evacuated as firefighters tackled a blaze at a derelict warehouse. More information |
Tuesday
Feb 21 |
Cape Town, S. Africa: Firefighters extinguished a fire at a shoe factory. More information |
Tuesday
Feb 21 |
Collahuasi, Chile: Operations at one of the world's largest copper mines were halted after a fatal accident. More information |
Tuesday
Feb 21 |
Stockertown, OH: Fire broke out in a furnace soot collector at a cement plant. More information |
Tuesday
Feb 21 |
Webbers Falls, OK: An overturned tanker truck spilled paraffinic oils across the highway and into a creek. More information |
Tuesday
Feb 21 |
Melbourne, Australia: A dust explosion caused massive damage in the powdered milk unit of a milk plant. More information |
Tuesday
Feb 21 |
Anshan, China: At least 10 people have been killed and 3 are missing after a blast at a steel plant. More information |
Tuesday
Feb 21 |
New Braunfels, TX: A loud explosion was followed by flames shooting out of a cement processing plant. More information |
Tuesday
Feb 21 |
White County, AR: Only 100 gallons of hydrochloric acid spilled from an overturned tanker carrying 3,000 gallons. More information |
Tuesday
Feb 21 |
San Fernando City, Philippines: A fuel tanker delivering diesel to a refinery spilled less than 10,000 liters into the sea. More information |
Monday
Feb 20 |
Sterling, IL: A steel plant worker suffered injuries when molten metal spilled from a ladle being moved with a crane. More information |
Monday
Feb 20 |
Bay of Plenty, New Zealand: Salvage operators working aboard a barge dumped a container of ferrosilicon overboard due to leaking hydrogen gas. More information |
Monday
Feb 20 |
Saiyedpura, India: Fire from a burning gasoline tanker spread to the underground tanks at a filling station. More information |
Monday
Feb 20 |
Agawam, MA: A fire that destroyed a refrigerated truck also damaged a dairy plant. More information |
Monday
Feb 20 |
Lanzhou, China: A chemical worker died when a tank truck exploded near an LPG station during nitrogen replacement. More information |
Monday
Feb 20 |
George Town, Malaysia: A substation explosion burned a worker over 90 percent of his body. More information |
Monday
Feb 20 |
Amberpet, India: Fire broke out on the ground floor of a packaging plant. More information |
Monday
Feb 20 |
Paradip, India: At least 20 workers were injured, 8 seriously, when the roof of a fertilizer silo caved in at a chemical plant. More information |
Monday
Feb 20 |
Jamestown, OH: Fire broke out at a plant making chemical irritant and smoke munition for military use after a major fire 3 months earlier. More information |
Monday
Feb 20 |
Inangahua, New Zealand: A utility worker was injured when a transformer exploded at a sawmill. More information |
Monday
Feb 20 |
Three Hills, AB: A recycling plant worker struck in the chest by machinery later died. More information |
Monday
Feb 20 |
Canton, OH: Local refinery firefighters assisted municipal responders when fire broke out at a trucking company. More information |
Monday
Feb 20 |
York, UK: A factory worker was airlifted to a hospital after his arm became caught in a machine. More information |
Monday
Feb 20 |
Fruitport, MI: A fire at an aluminum foundry had to be fought using dry chemical to avoid reaction with moisture. More information |
Monday
Feb 20 |
Wenatchee, WA: A packaging plant sustained minor water and mud damage after a semitrailer knocked over a fire hydrant. More information |
Monday
Feb 20 |
McPherson County, KS: Lightning triggered an explosion that spilled the crude oil from a steel tank and set fire to a fiberglass tank. More information |
Monday
Feb 20 |
Sidon, Lebanon: A tannery worker died while cleaning a sewage canal that contained extracts of toxic materials used in leather tanning processes. More information |
Sunday
Feb 19 |
Kathmandu, Nepal: 2 people died and 8 were injured when a boiler exploded at a factory making plywood. More information |
Sunday
Feb 19 |
East Harris County, TX: A leak from a lubricant mixing and packaging facility found its way into a flood canal. More information |
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