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Entries for February 2011
Monday
Feb 28 |
Houston, TX: 3 firefighters were injured battling a blaze at a pallet manufacturing plant. More information |
Monday
Feb 28 |
Temple, TX: A broken refrigeration unit leaked ammonia at a bottling plant. More information |
Monday
Feb 28 |
Balagolla, Sri Lanka: Fire broke out in an incense factory. More information |
Monday
Feb 28 |
Manchester, UK: Thieves trying to steal the cab of a tanker truck drained the cargo of toxic xylene into the local sewer system. More information |
Monday
Feb 28 |
Pago Pago, American Samoa: Nearly 100 port works fled when an ammonia leak was discovered. More information |
Monday
Feb 28 |
Lakewood, WA: Tanks used to compress the natural gas that fuels local buses exploded inside a metal shed. More information |
Monday
Feb 28 |
Taltal, Chile: A copper mine explosion killed a worker and injured 2. More information |
Monday
Feb 28 |
Over Wallop, UK: A factory producing military flares was threatened when a flare ignited in a storage area. More information |
Monday
Feb 28 |
Portsmouth, NH: A fire in a wood chip crushing machine spread through a power plant. More information |
Monday
Feb 28 |
Chropyne, Czech Republic: Fire broke out at a plastics plant. More information |
Sunday
Feb 27 |
Miyi, China: A waste dump at a mining company collapsed, burying an apartment building and killing 3 people. More information |
Sunday
Feb 27 |
Paulsboro, NJ: An oil refinery reported emissions after a compressor tripped. More information |
Sunday
Feb 27 |
Muhammad Bux Malik, Pakistan: Terrorists blew up a 5-foot section of a natural gas transmission line. More information |
Sunday
Feb 27 |
Amravati, India: A cottonseed products factory caught fire. More information |
Sunday
Feb 27 |
Panshi, China: A boiler exploded at a chemical plant, injuring 2 workers and releasing ammonia fumes. More information |
Sunday
Feb 27 |
Livona, MI: Firefighters drove their truck indoors to extinguish a machine fire at an auto transmission plant. More information |
Saturday
Feb 26 |
Baiji, Iraq: Miliants attacked the country's largest oil refinery, killing four workers. More information |
Saturday
Feb 26 |
Ennis, Ireland: A sulfuric acid spill forced workers to evacuate a plant making corrective lenses. More information |
Saturday
Feb 26 |
University Place, WI: Only a small amount of lye leaked from four derailed tank cars. More information |
Saturday
Feb 26 |
Panshi, China: 2 chemical plant workers were injured in a boiler explosion that released ammonia fumes. More information |
Saturday
Feb 26 |
Texas City, TX: A pressure relief valve opened at an oil refinery, allowing hydrogen sulfide to escape. More information |
Saturday
Feb 26 |
Panshi, China: 2 workers were injured when a boiler blast released ammonia gas at a chemical plant. More information |
Friday
Feb 25 |
Baiji, Iraq: Militants carried out bomb attack on an oil refinery, setting it on fire and forcing the refinery to shut down.
More information |
Friday
Feb 25 |
Ennis, Ireland: Drums containing sulfuric acid fell from a fork lift and spilled, forcing the evacuation of a lens manufacturing plant. More information |
Friday
Feb 25 |
Chaiyaphum, Thailand: 31 workers were injured when a bio-gas pipe of a tapioca factory exploded, causing a massive fire. More information |
Friday
Feb 25 |
Mykolaiv, Ukraine: Red dust spread from an aluminum plant due to frozen slurry pits. More information |
Friday
Feb 25 |
Ivoz-Ramet, Belgium: Eight drums stored with other flammable products at a chemical plant showed signs of becoming unstable. More information |
Friday
Feb 25 |
Avella, PA: 3 contract workers were injured, one critically, in a fiery explosion that erupted during well testing at a natural gas drilling site. More information |
Friday
Feb 25 |
Rochester, NY: A fire at an abandoned auto battery plant was determined to be arson. More information |
Thursday
Feb 24 |
Wahpeton, ND: A smoldering fire damaged the roof of an agricultural processing plant. More information |
Thursday
Feb 24 |
Stuarts Draft, PA: A peanut roaster fire at a candy plant left one worker injured. More information |
Thursday
Feb 24 |
Evansdale, IN: Incorrect chemicals poured into a mixer caused a fire at an adhesives plant. More information |
Thursday
Feb 24 |
Sarnia, ON: A worker was hospitalized and 4 were treated after a power outage caused a hazardous materials leak at a refinery. More information |
Thursday
Feb 24 |
Caseyville, IL: A reaction at an environmental services company created a chemical cloud. More information |
Thursday
Feb 24 |
Grafton, MA: Firefighters extinguished a small fire under an acid tank at a foundry. More information |
Wednesday
Feb 23 |
Caseyville, IL: Ink mixed with chlorine for disposal exploded at an environmental haz mat company. More information |
Wednesday
Feb 23 |
Wuxi, China: An explosion at a chemical plant was followed by fire. More information |
Wednesday
Feb 23 |
Merced County, CA: A truck carrying granulated citric acid overturned. More information |
Wednesday
Feb 23 |
Lucknow, India: A boiler explosion at a plywood factory killed 3 people and injured 7. More information |
Wednesday
Feb 23 |
Rajahmundry, India: A fire at one of the country's oldest paper mills destroyed nearly 400 tons of product. More information |
Wednesday
Feb 23 |
Canton, OH: A release of vapors including hydrochloric acid forced the evacuation of refinery workers. More information |
Wednesday
Feb 23 |
Hartsville, SC: Bails of recycled cardboard caught fire at a packaging plant. More information |
Wednesday
Feb 23 |
Modesto, CA: About 2,200 pounds of citric anhydrous acid in granulated form was spilled when a big rig overturned. More information |
Tuesday
Feb 22 |
Mapunapuna, Hawaii: Workers evacuated a bottling plant after a release of ammonia from a refrigeration system. More information |
Tuesday
Feb 22 |
New London, CT: A contractor painting the floor at the city's wastewater treatment plant was injured by chemical exposure. More information |
Tuesday
Feb 22 |
Amarillo, TX: A railroad worker was exposed to sulfuric acid vapors released from a tank car. More information |
Tuesday
Feb 22 |
Mapunapuna, HI: An ammonia leak at a bottling plant forced the evacuation of 17 workers. More information |
Tuesday
Feb 22 |
Amsterdam, Netherlands: Fire broke out in two warehouses at a chemical storage company. More information |
Monday
Feb 21 |
Hardeeville, SC: Bottles of muriatic acid that fell from a vehicle closed a U.S. highway for three hours. More information |
Sunday
Feb 20 |
Bagong Bantay, Philippines: An ammonia leak at a gas plant forced the evacuation of 300 families. More information |
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