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Entries for October 2011
Monday
Oct 31 |
Harrison Twp., OH: Fire broke out at a factory specializing in high-end finishes for military, aerospace and commercial industries. More information |
Monday
Oct 31 |
Milwaukee County, WI: Authorities believe no one is trapped in cargo trailers that fell to the beach in a bluff collapse at a power plant. More information |
Monday
Oct 31 |
Hastings, New Zealand: Firefighters used a forklift and a digger to extinguish burning bales of compressed paper at a paper packaging factory. More information |
Monday
Oct 31 |
Parkeston, UK: Hot oil leaking from a valve ignited at an oil refinery. More information |
Monday
Oct 31 |
St. Joseph's, NL: Fire levelled a seafood processing plant. More information |
Monday
Oct 31 |
Brazos County, TX: An equipment fire spread through wood chips at a recycling plant. More information |
Monday
Oct 31 |
Butler, NJ: A worker severely injured his hand in an equipment accident at a factory. More information |
Monday
Oct 31 |
Bowling Green, KY: Welding work was underway at a recycling plant when a fire broke out. More information |
Sunday
Oct 30 |
Kilsyth, Australia: Firefighters battled a massive fire at a timber processing plant. More information |
Sunday
Oct 30 |
Mitchell, IN: Fire broke out at a pallet factory. More information |
Sunday
Oct 30 |
Hopkinton, RI: 2 firefighters were injured battling a fire that destroyed a historic mill. More information |
Sunday
Oct 30 |
Fort Wayne, IN: A warehouse fire at an insulation factory released toxic smoke. More information |
Saturday
Oct 29 |
Cedar Rapids, IA: Agricultural plant workers used chemical extinguishers to contain the smoke coming from a decanter centrifuge. More information |
Saturday
Oct 29 |
Albuquerque, NM: Fire broke out at a recycling plant. More information |
Saturday
Oct 29 |
Burns Harbor, IL: Heat from a ruptured high pressure steam line left a steel plant worker with 3rd degree burns over 55 percent of his body. More information |
Saturday
Oct 29 |
Atchison, KS: An explosion blew the roof off a grain elevator, killing 6. More information |
Friday
Oct 28 |
Louisville, KY: A worker at a uniform cleaning company died after he was pulled into an industrial dryer. More information |
Friday
Oct 28 |
Centertown, KY: 2 miners died when a mine wall collapsed on their truck. More information |
Friday
Oct 28 |
Lenoir, NC: Sawdust ignited at a plant that makes particle board out of recycled wood products. More information |
Friday
Oct 28 |
Workington, UK: Sparks from demolition work ignited insultation at a factory. More information |
Friday
Oct 28 |
Bushehr, Iran: An explosion at a state-run oil field killed a worker and injured 3 others. More information |
Friday
Oct 28 |
Arak, Iran: An explosion and fire occurred at the Shahzand refinery in central Iran. More information |
Thursday
Oct 27 |
Parwan Province, Afghanistan: A fuel tanker with a bomb hidden on board exploded on the road to Bagram Air Base, setting off an inferno that killed at least 10 people and left dozens more badly burned. More information |
Thursday
Oct 27 |
Moorhead, ND: Fire broke out in a pulp dryer at a sugar plant. More information |
Thursday
Oct 27 |
Mapleton, ND: Fire broke out in an outdoor air system at an agricultural feed plant. More information |
Wednesday
Oct 26 |
Topeaka, KS: A spill of asphalt oil was contained after a tanker truck crash that killed the driver. More information |
Wednesday
Oct 26 |
Umm Al Qaiwain, UAE: A vessel carrying 450 tons of diesel sank 17 kilometers off the coast in 30 meters of water. More information |
Tuesday
Oct 25 |
Cloncurry, Australia: With only a few cups spilled, a frieght train carrying 1.5 megalitres of sulfuric acid jumped the tracks. More information |
Tuesday
Oct 25 |
Sirte, Libya: An explosion in a fuel depot killed nearly 100 people, many waiting to fuel their cars. More information |
Tuesday
Oct 25 |
Linden, UT: A worker at a steel plant was injured when hit by a steel beam. More information |
Tuesday
Oct 25 |
Fairfield, NJ: A small spill of sulfuric acid shut down a consumer products testing company. More information |
Tuesday
Oct 25 |
Tupelo, MS: Fire destroyed a plant that makes foam for furniture. More information |
Tuesday
Oct 25 |
Suffolk, VA: Fire broke out in the dust collection system at a coffee factory. More information |
Monday
Oct 24 |
Fort Smith, AR: Arching from an overhead power line forced the evacuation of an air conditioning plant. More information |
Monday
Oct 24 |
Saskatoon, MB: Offices at a farm equipment plant were damaged by fire. More information |
Monday
Oct 24 |
Gateway, CO: An overturned tanker truck spilled more than 7,000 gallons of crude oil. More information |
Monday
Oct 24 |
Oskarshamn, Sweden: Leaking oil ignited at a nuclear power plant, leading to an immediate shutdown. More information |
Monday
Oct 24 |
Enterprise, AL: A silo being dismantled at a peanut processing plant caught fire. More information |
Monday
Oct 24 |
Joliet, IL: A power plant worker was burned when a hydrogen leak caught fire. More information |
Sunday
Oct 23 |
Mira Mesa, CA: Radioactive materials on site concerned responders during a fire at a medical product sterilization company. More information |
Sunday
Oct 23 |
Santee, CA: Fire broke out at a recycling plant specializing in restaurant refuse. More information |
Sunday
Oct 23 |
Winnipeg, ON: A major fire broke out at a former paper plant and recycling center. More information |
Sunday
Oct 23 |
Skikda, Algeria: A backhoe struck an underground electrical cable, the sparks igniting pumps operating 2 fuel storage tanks. More information |
Saturday
Oct 22 |
Gersthofen, Germany: An explosion at a fireworks factory killed a worker. More information |
Saturday
Oct 22 |
Jefferson, IN: A hydrogen sulfide leak from a tanker truck at a lubricants refinery injured a worker. More information |
Saturday
Oct 22 |
Beatrice, NE: Sprinklers help hold back a fire that broke out at a factory making driveshaft equipment. More information |
Friday
Oct 21 |
Burley, ID: Fire damaged half of a potato processing plant. More information |
Friday
Oct 21 |
Houston, TX: An insulation fire broke out in a decomissioned chemical unit being demolished at a refinery. More information |
Friday
Oct 21 |
Fulton County, GA: Firefighters responded to a small chemical leak at a water treatment plant. More information |
Friday
Oct 21 |
Albertville, AL: Fire damage devastated a rubber seal factory that firefighters found difficult to fight. More information |
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