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Entries for December 2008
Wednesday
Dec 31 |
Covington, GA: Fire broke out in the dust filtration system at a cardboard products plant. More information |
Wednesday
Dec 31 |
Lincoln, NE: A roof fire broke out at a meat processing plant. More information |
Wednesday
Dec 31 |
Maceió, Brazil: Eight power plant workers clearing an evaporation box were burned when a closed inlet burst. More information |
Tuesday
Dec 30 |
Birmingham, UK: Responders rescued two workers from a burning meat packing plant. More information |
Tuesday
Dec 30 |
Calcutta, India: Fire broke out at a plywood factory, spreading to nearby military quarters. More information |
Tuesday
Dec 30 |
Central Iran: An explosion at an armaments factory killed eight people. More information |
Tuesday
Dec 30 |
Corbin, KY: Nearly 600 people were evacuated after an ammonia spill at an ice plant. More information |
Tuesday
Dec 30 |
Dearborn, MI: The roof collapsed on a storage building at a steel plant. More information |
Tuesday
Dec 30 |
Jamshedpur, India: A worker at a steel plant was killed by a release of gas from a blast furnace. More information |
Tuesday
Dec 30 |
Lincolnshire, IL: A hazmat emergency forced workers to evacuate an electronics plant. More information |
Tuesday
Dec 30 |
Mumbai, India: A minor fire temporarily halted operations at a foundry. More information |
Tuesday
Dec 30 |
Penn Twp, PA: Smoke filled a ball bearing plant after fire broke out. More information |
Tuesday
Dec 30 |
Saki Naka, India: Fire destroyed an incense factory. More information |
Tuesday
Dec 30 |
Tukwila, WA: Fire swept through a rendering plant. More information |
Monday
Dec 29 |
Camas, WA: A dust fire between the ceiling and the roof of a paper mill required firefighter to strip away a 300-foot section of roofing tiles. More information |
Monday
Dec 29 |
Jeddah, Saudi Arabia: A three-hour fire broke out at a glass factory. More information |
Monday
Dec 29 |
Jemeppe-sur-Sambre, Belgium: A flammable cloud of vinyl chloride rose from a chemical plant but did not ignite. More information |
Monday
Dec 29 |
Maricopa, AZ: An explosion at a grain elevator left three workers with severe burns. More information |
Monday
Dec 29 |
Marysville, WA: A section of factory roof collapsed under heavy snow, with the damaged sprinkler system dumping water that turned to ice. More information |
Monday
Dec 29 |
Uinta County, WY: A crane collapsed at a metal fabrication plant, killing the owner. More information |
Monday
Dec 29 |
Valdez, AK: A 2½–hour fire burned at a refinery specializing in jet fuel and marine diesel. More information |
Sunday
Dec 28 |
Cape Sable Island, Nova Scotia: Three buildings in a fisheries complex were destroyed by fire. More information |
Sunday
Dec 28 |
Cwmbran, UK: A solvents fire at an aircraft seat factory was confined to a single room. More information |
Sunday
Dec 28 |
Detroit, MI: Doctors performed surgery at a pasta factory to help free a worker’s mangled arm from a machine used to knead dough. More information |
Sunday
Dec 28 |
Greeley, CO: A fork lift operator died after a semi backed into him at a meat packing plant. More information |
Sunday
Dec 28 |
King’s Lynn, UK: A printing press at a packaging plant caught fire. More information |
Sunday
Dec 28 |
Wilsonville, OR: A tractor-trailer rig loaded with 10,000 gallons of gasoline crashed and burned, killing the driver. More information |
Saturday
Dec 27 |
Chongqing, China: Six workers died and 12 others injured after molten manganese spilled out of an electric furnace at a foundry. More information |
Saturday
Dec 27 |
Danville, PA: Flames erupted at an auto parts plant. More information |
Saturday
Dec 27 |
Delphi, IN: A 17,000-ton pile of corncobs caught fire at a grain mill. More information |
Saturday
Dec 27 |
Santa Maria, CA: Three spills in as many days resulted in officials temporarily revoking a refinery’s permit to operate. More information |
Friday
Dec 26 |
Alfredo Guedes, Brazil: Two tankers carrying 20,000 gallons of diesel fuel each derailed and caught fire. More information |
Friday
Dec 26 |
Memphis, TN: Fire broke out at a chemical plant. More information |
Friday
Dec 26 |
Rushden, UK: A tire recycling plant burned throughout most of the weekend. More information |
Friday
Dec 26 |
Santa Maria, CA: Crude oil and water spilled from a ruptured production line at a refinery. More information |
Thursday
Dec 25 |
Billings, MT: A fire broke out at a refinery with no injuries reported. More information |
Thursday
Dec 25 |
Chicago, IL: A three-hour fire collapsed the roof at a meat-packing plant. More information |
Thursday
Dec 25 |
Chingola, Zambia: A fire broke out in a flashing furnace at a smelter. More information |
Thursday
Dec 25 |
Laurel, MT: Fire erupted in a low sulfur diesel hydrotreater at an oil refinery. More information |
Thursday
Dec 25 |
Mandaue, Philippines: A tissue factory burned in a five-hour fire. More information |
Thursday
Dec 25 |
Mossel Bay, South Africa: A fire broke out at an oil-from-gas plant. More information |
Thursday
Dec 25 |
Shenzhen, China: Three workers died in a fire at a plastics factory. More information |
Thursday
Dec 25 |
Tuticorin, India: Fire destroyed a large quantity of cotton stored in a warehouse. More information |
Wednesday
Dec 24 |
Amuay, Venezuela: A fire damaged the furnace of a naphtha unit at an oil refinery. More information |
Wednesday
Dec 24 |
Calgary, AB: A warehouse at a boat manufacturing plant burned. More information |
Wednesday
Dec 24 |
Ellesmere Port, UK: The sprinkler system activated when an equipment fire broke out at a paper mill. More information |
Wednesday
Dec 24 |
Gettysburg, OH: A backhoe was used to spread out and extinguish the burning contents of a grain elevator. More information |
Wednesday
Dec 24 |
Hebei province, China: Seventeen workers were killed and 27 injured in a blast furnace gas leak at a steel plant. More information |
Wednesday
Dec 24 |
Kansas City, MO: Only a few hundred gallons of methyl ethyl ketone were in a six-story vertical storage tank that caught fire at a pharmaceuticals plant. More information |
Wednesday
Dec 24 |
Macon, GA: An exhaust fan fire spread through a tire retreading plant. More information |
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