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Entries for March 2012
Saturday
Mar 03 |
New Lenox, IL: A major oil pipeline will be shut down for several days after a spill and fire caused by a freak car accident that killed 2.
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Saturday
Mar 03 |
Front Royal, NV: Sprinklers controlled the initial flames when fire broke out at a plastics plant. More information |
Saturday
Mar 03 |
Kanglatongbi, India: A sudden fire broke out at a wood factory, killing a worker and injuring 4 others. More information |
Friday
Mar 02 |
Flowery Branch, GA: A worker died after being pulled into machinery at a wire making factory. More information |
Friday
Mar 02 |
Hartlepool, UK: Steam from equipment activated a false alarm at a chemical plant. More information |
Friday
Mar 02 |
Bromsgrove, UK: A fire in an old trailer at a quarry was dangerously close to a diesel generator. More information |
Friday
Mar 02 |
Nixa, MO: A car struck a gas meter outside a plastics plant, the escaping gas prompting an area evacuation. More information |
Friday
Mar 02 |
Vilnius, Lithuania: 2 workers have died at a Polish-owned oil refinery after a vacuum tank exploded. More information |
Friday
Mar 02 |
Thottappally, India: Authorities transfered the contents of a tanker truck carrying hydrochloric acid after a leak was discovered. More information |
Friday
Mar 02 |
Valanjavazhi, India: An ammonia leak was reported at a fish processing plant. More information |
Friday
Mar 02 |
Tiffin, OH: A warehouse that was formerly home to a lantern factory and power plant caught fire. More information |
Friday
Mar 02 |
Boyd County, KY: A worker at a company that crushes rock and slag for a steel plant died in a converyor belt accident. More information |
Friday
Mar 02 |
Marengo, IL: 7 workers at a plant specializing in magnetic products were treated for exposure to leaking gas. More information |
Friday
Mar 02 |
North Las Vegas, NV: Fire broke out at a recycling plant. More information |
Friday
Mar 02 |
Indianapolis, IN: Rescue crews worked with factory employees to free a woman whose hand got stuck in a machine used to make gift cards. More information |
Friday
Mar 02 |
Harlem, GA: A pecan plant worker died from a head injury when an air compressor exploded. More information |
Friday
Mar 02 |
Clark Freeport, Philippines: 4 workers died and 4 were injured when a 30-foot wall being built at a pharmaceutical plant collapsed in a high wind. More information |
Friday
Mar 02 |
Fort McMurray, AB: A coker fire at the oilsands project burned for 11 hours before it was extinguished by fire crews at the plant. More information |
Friday
Mar 02 |
Elyria, OH: A worker at a plant making core drilling equipment was charged with arson after being injured in an explosion while making exploding targets for firearm practice. More information |
Friday
Mar 02 |
Sturgeon, WI: Responders were called to a shipyard to rescue a man who had fallen inside a ship. More information |
Thursday
Mar 01 |
Shoreham, UK: Fire broke out in the roof space of a gas suppression facility next to a power plant. More information |
Thursday
Mar 01 |
Karachi, Pakistan: A worker died and 8 others fell unconscious when lethal gas leaked at a confectionery plant. More information |
Thursday
Mar 01 |
Struthers, OH: 2 sewer plant workers who suffered severe burns after a methane explosion died from their injuries within the next 6 weeks. More information |
Thursday
Mar 01 |
Komotini, Greece: An unemployed factory worker shot and injured his former boss and another worker, then took 2 workers hostage to protest losing his job. More information |
Thursday
Mar 01 |
Pipers Flat, Australia: Emergency crews responded to a fire at a fireworks factory. More information |
Thursday
Mar 01 |
Medford City, OK: Residents were advised to evacuate as propane leaked for a third straight day out of a well at a fuel storage plant. More information |
Thursday
Mar 01 |
Grand Island, NY: Improperly stored oily rags caused a fire in an auxiliary building at a wastewater treatment plant. More information |
Thursday
Mar 01 |
Prudhoe Bay, AK: Fire broke out in a low-pressure gas handling building at an oil-processing center. More information |
Thursday
Mar 01 |
Ras Tanura, Saudi Arabia: Government officials said reports of a fire near the Ras Tanura refinery do not involve sabotage. More information |
Thursday
Mar 01 |
Alvin, TX: 2 workers were hospitalized after an accident while unloading acid from a tanker truck. More information |
Thursday
Mar 01 |
Hubbard, OH: An electrical fire caused minor damage at an aerosol and specialty chemicals plant. More information |
Thursday
Mar 01 |
Thomas Twp., MI: A chemical spill at an electronics plant was contained. More information |
Thursday
Mar 01 |
Natakai, India: An ice factory owner died and 2 others were injured when a gas cylinder used for refrigeration exploded. More information |
Thursday
Mar 01 |
Jakusevac, Croatia: Part of an incinerator plant automatically shut down when a build up of oxygen was detected. More information |
Thursday
Mar 01 |
Bollene, France: An equipment fire at a factory making hermetic packages for electronics forced employees to evacuate. More information |
Thursday
Mar 01 |
Bruck an der Mur, Germany: Gas leaking from an acetylene bottle ignited in a highway maintenance workshop. More information |
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