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Entries for February 2010
Sunday
Feb 28 |
Portsmouth, NH: Fire broke out in a wood crusher that helps fuel a power generating plant. More information |
Thursday
Feb 18 |
Heybridge, UK: More than 80 residents were evacuated after fire broke out at a gas plant. More information |
Thursday
Feb 18 |
Kakinada, India: Three containers filled with lithium batteries burned at an industrial parts plant. More information |
Wednesday
Feb 17 |
Belmond, IA: A worker at an engine valve plant died in an on-the-job accident. More information |
Wednesday
Feb 17 |
Cambridge, ON: A worker injured her leg while at work at an auto plant. More information |
Wednesday
Feb 17 |
Freeport, TX: A warehouse containing rubber hoses burned for three hours at a chemical plant. More information |
Wednesday
Feb 17 |
Heath, UK: Smoke in a laboratory tripped the fire alarm at an aircraft maintenance facility. More information |
Wednesday
Feb 17 |
Memphis, TN: An overturned tanker carrying vinyl acetate forced the closure of an interstate highway. More information |
Wednesday
Feb 17 |
Montpelier, LA: Fire gutted a food processing plant specializing in pickled pigs’ lips. More information |
Wednesday
Feb 17 |
Oxnard, CA: Firefighters extinguished a blaze that spread through a two-story pile of materials at a recycling center. More information |
Wednesday
Feb 17 |
Pasadena, CA: An orange cloud rising from a chemical plant prompted officials to order nearby residents to shelter-in-place. More information |
Wednesday
Feb 17 |
Troy, OH: Welding work was underway when fire broke out at a manufacturing plant. More information |
Wednesday
Feb 17 |
Vancouver, WA: Calcium oxide powder violently reacted with water, spreading fire through a recycling plant. More information |
Tuesday
Feb 16 |
Lynchburg, TN: A fire at an adhesives plant injured a worker. More information |
Tuesday
Feb 16 |
Montezuma, GA: Hazardous materials hindered the investigation of a fire at a plant that makes deck boards, fencing and railing. More information |
Tuesday
Feb 16 |
Nagpur, India: A boiler explosion at a steel plant killed three workers and injured nine. More information |
Tuesday
Feb 16 |
Rincon, GA: A worker at a paper mill was injured in a machine accident. More information |
Tuesday
Feb 16 |
West Milwaukee, WI: A falling piece of sheet metal killed a worker at a heavy tool manufacturer. More information |
Tuesday
Feb 16 |
Dumfries, UK: A fatality accident was reported at a plant that processes animal by-products. More information |
Monday
Feb 15 |
Delta Twp., MI: A small fire broke out on the roof of the paint shop at an automobile plant. More information |
Monday
Feb 15 |
Hailsham, UK: A worker died in an industrial accident at a tire plant. More information |
Monday
Feb 15 |
McKittrick, CA: Five workers were injured when an oil well violently released high pressure gases. More information |
Sunday
Feb 14 |
Bridgeport, CT: Flames gutted a vacant firearms factory. More information |
Sunday
Feb 14 |
Coopersville, MI: Fire destroyed the main building at a meat processing plant but did not reach nearby livestock. More information |
Sunday
Feb 14 |
Ordale, UK: A worker trapped beneath a fork lift at a food processing plant died. More information |
Saturday
Feb 13 |
Baltic, OH: Fire destroyed a building at a rubber manufacturing plant. More information |
Saturday
Feb 13 |
Cleckheaton, UK: A loading bay fire damaged a meat processing plant. More information |
Saturday
Feb 13 |
Baltic, OH: Fire collapsed a building in a rubber manufacturing plant. More information |
Friday
Feb 12 |
Dillard, OR: A dust explosion during a fire at a lumber mill power plant injured two firefighters. More information |
Friday
Feb 12 |
Erie, PA: Metal products were being treated with coating oil at a bolt manufacturing plant when flames shot up, igniting the roof. More information |
Friday
Feb 12 |
Fawley, UK: A feed drum caught fire at an oil refinery. More information |
Friday
Feb 12 |
Fakenham, UK: A fire at a factory was limited to one piece of equipment. More information |
Friday
Feb 12 |
Montgomery Twp., PA: Two workers were exposed to a hazardous chemical that spilled while being off loaded from a tanker truck. More information |
Thursday
Feb 11 |
Alampur, India: Fire broke out at a plastic packaging plant. More information |
Thursday
Feb 11 |
Broughton, UK: An equipment fire cause minor damage at an aircraft plant. More information |
Thursday
Feb 11 |
Paterson, NJ: A three-alarm fire broke out at a plastics factory. More information |
Wednesday
Feb 10 |
Gillette, WY: Two conveyor belts that were not in use were damaged in an hour-long fire. More information |
Wednesday
Feb 10 |
Gujarat, India: Fire followed an explosion in a waste heat boiler at an ammonia plant. More information |
Wednesday
Feb 10 |
Little Wratting, UK: An oven fire spread through a meat processing plant. More information |
Wednesday
Feb 10 |
Meraux, LA: Liquid that somehow got into gas line caused heavy black smoke pouring from stacks at an oil refinery. More information |
Wednesday
Feb 10 |
Osage, MN: A section of roof at a textile plant collapsed under the weight of heavy snow. More information |
Wednesday
Feb 10 |
West Paducah, KY: Fire broke out in a generator at a coal fired power plant. More information |
Wednesday
Feb 10 |
Yeerongpilly, Australia: A motor inside a silo caught fire at a food processing plant. More information |
Tuesday
Feb 09 |
Altona, Australia: A storage tank holding 2.5 million gallons of gasoline began leaking in a wetlands area. More information |
Tuesday
Feb 09 |
New York, NY: Fire in a 10-pound vat of almonds produced heavy smoke at a chocolate factory. More information |
Tuesday
Feb 09 |
Crymlyn Burrows, UK: Firefighters used heavy equipment to break apart a 400 ton pile of waste material on fire at a waste treatment plant. More information |
Tuesday
Feb 09 |
Fort McMurray, AB: Fire damaged a sand-oil upgrader only a week after the second upgrader at the site returned to service from a December fire. More information |
Tuesday
Feb 09 |
Hunting Park, PA: Fire broke out in an oven at an industrial bakery. More information |
Tuesday
Feb 09 |
Oregon, IL: A fire in a dust collector at a plant specializing in resin coatings left a worker in critical condition. More information |
Tuesday
Feb 09 |
Philadelphia, PA: A pump fire in a refinery crude unit reduced crude throughput. More information |
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