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Entries for May 2012
Monday
May 21 |
El Dorado, AR: 3 people dismantling an abandoned containment vessel for petroleum at a well site died when vapors inside ignited..
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Monday
May 21 |
Dalton, GA: 47 people required decontamination after a chemical plant fire involving a water treatment product. More information |
Monday
May 21 |
Tuscarawas County, WV: A shelter-in-place order was issued when a chemical plant reactor overheated and released antifreeze vapors More information |
Monday
May 21 |
Prudhoe Bay, AK: About 4,200 gallons of crude oil and oily water overflowed from a storage tank into a containment area. More information |
Monday
May 21 |
Plaquemine, LA: 4 contract employees at a chemical and vinyls plant are recovering after being exposed to chlorine. More information |
Sunday
May 20 |
St. Clair, MI: An explosion injured a worker at a coal-fired power plant. More information |
Sunday
May 20 |
Pandha Bazar, India: 4 soldiers died and 29 were injured when their vehicle collided with a tanker truck carrying hazardous materials. More information |
Sunday
May 20 |
Northwood, OH: A worker at a plant making injection molded auto parts was found trapped between a storage rack and a forklift. More information |
Saturday
May 19 |
Montrose, IA: A conveyor belt fire temporarily shut down a coal plant. More information |
Saturday
May 19 |
Fontana, CA: A 6-acre fire at a pallet plant drew nearly 200 firefighters. More information |
Saturday
May 19 |
Cromarty Firth, UK: Fire broke out at a gas storage facility in a disused fabrication plant. More information |
Saturday
May 19 |
Catawba, SC: 4 workers suffered chemical burns in the wood pulping area of a forest products plant. More information |
Saturday
May 19 |
Sao Paulo, Brazil: A chimney fire broke out at a plant specializing in flat steel products. More information |
Saturday
May 19 |
Montrose, IA: A converyor belt fire temporarily shut down a coal transshipment company. More information |
Saturday
May 19 |
Zhuzhou, China: An explosion in a tunnel under contruction killed at least 20 people. More information |
Saturday
May 19 |
Bhadresh, India: A fire at a lignite power plant took 10 hours to extinguish. More information |
Friday
May 18 |
Decatur, IL: Fire broke out in the coal storage area of a co-generation plant powering an agricultural products facility. More information |
Friday
May 18 |
Bristol, PA: A firefighter died of a heart attack at the scene of a chemical plant fire that sent clouds of acrid smoke drifting over nearby communities. More information |
Thursday
May 17 |
Dagestan Republic, Russia: A gas pipeline fire left thousands without fuel. More information |
Thursday
May 17 |
Fitchburg, MA: A spill of less than a gallon of hydrochloric acid shut down a medical device manufacturing plant for more than 2 hours. More information |
Thursday
May 17 |
Deer Park, TX: A shelter-in-place order at an oil refinery was lifted shortly after a sulfur recovery unit upset caused emissions of hydrogen sulfide and sulfur dioxide. More information |
Thursday
May 17 |
Kansas City, MO: Firefighters battled a two-alarm oil tanker fire at an asphalt construction company. More information |
Wednesday
May 16 |
Nixon, TX: Two workers were hurt in an explosion at a hydraulic fracturing tank site. More information |
Wednesday
May 16 |
Northwest Miami-Dade, FL: An ammonia leak forced the evacuation of a two-story warehouse. More information |
Wednesday
May 16 |
Corpus Christi, TX: Leaking butane ignited at an oil refinery. More information |
Wednesday
May 16 |
Port Arthur, TX: A propylene spill at a chemical plant under maintenance force forced a shutdown of operations. More information |
Wednesday
May 16 |
Mason City, IA: An explosion rocked a biodiesel plant. More information |
Wednesday
May 16 |
Lorton, VA: A malfunction in an air-handling unit in a laboratory at a local company resulted in an explosion that injured 3 people. More information |
Tuesday
May 15 |
Giles County, VA: A hazmat team removed a leaking cylinder of chlorine from a water treatment plant. More information |
Tuesday
May 15 |
El Dorado, AR: A reactor exploded at a chemical plant. More information |
Tuesday
May 15 |
Quincy, IL: Fire broke out in the powder coat paint department of a manufacturing plant. More information |
Tuesday
May 15 |
Boardman, OR: 7 people suffered from exposure to an ammonia leak at a potato plant. More information |
Monday
May 14 |
Baton Rouge, LA: A hydrofluoric acid leak at a chemical plant was quickly contained. More information |
Saturday
May 12 |
Port Arthur, TX: A fire in a heater check valve shut down a lube oil hydrocracking unit at an oil refinery. More information |
Friday
May 11 |
Bellevue, OH: The sprinkler system put out a fire at a plastics plant. More information |
Friday
May 11 |
Copenhagen, Denmark: A controlled explosion intended to clear a wood pellet silo at a power plant instead ignited a fire. More information |
Friday
May 11 |
Kerteh, Malaysia: A worker was killed and 23 injured in an explosion at a gas processing plant. More information |
Friday
May 11 |
Vista, CA: An explosion in a recently cleaned 8,000 gallon tank blew a hole through the roof of a hot tub factory. More information |
Thursday
May 10 |
Frederick, MD: An ammonia spill temporarily halted operations at a brewery. More information |
Thursday
May 10 |
Lebanon, TN: A food distribution plant was temporarily shut down and evacuated because of an ammonia leak. More information |
Thursday
May 10 |
New Caledonia, Brazil: A mining company declared force majeure after an incident at an acid plant. More information |
Thursday
May 10 |
Mettur, India: A fire that destroyed the coal conveyor belt at a power plant left one worker dead and another injured. More information |
Wednesday
May 09 |
Urumqi, China: At least 5 people are dead after a toxic gas leak in a workshop near the hangar of an airport. More information |
Wednesday
May 09 |
Philadelphia, PA: Damage discovered after a crude unit fire at an oil refinery left the unit shut down. More information |
Wednesday
May 09 |
Sarasota, FL: A small ammonia leak forced the evacuation of a warehouse. More information |
Tuesday
May 08 |
Norco, LA: Fire and smoke flared at a refinery when a heater unit failed, forcing a shutdown of a portion of the plant.
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Tuesday
May 08 |
Rawlins, WY: 3 workers were critically injured in a flash fire in a gas recovery unit at an oil refinery. More information |
Tuesday
May 08 |
New Smyrna Beach, FL: A chemical leak inside an ice plant caused an explosion that blew out the metal walls and a portion of the door. More information |
Tuesday
May 08 |
Maceió, Brazil: A boiler explosion in a factory making coconut-based foods left 1 person dead and others injured. More information |
Monday
May 07 |
Port Reading, NJ: The gasoline-making fluid catalytic cracking unit at a 70,000 barrel per day refinery resumed operation after an earlier brief flaring. More information |
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