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Entries for March 2002
Sunday
Mar 31 |
DeKalb, IL: Fire leveled a horse-slaughtering plant. More information |
Saturday
Mar 30 |
Columbia, TN: Nearby residents were evacuated after lightning set fire to a large tree in the middle of a propane storage lot. More information |
Saturday
Mar 30 |
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia: Officials temporarily closed an industrial park after an accident in which several bottles of bromine broke. Workers complained of eye irritation. More information |
Friday
Mar 29 |
Waukesha, WI: An anhydrous ammonia leak at an engine plant caused concern, but no evacuation was ordered. More information |
Thursday
Mar 28 |
Marrakesh, Morocco: A lightning strike triggered a fire at a cobalt plant. More information |
Wednesday
Mar 27 |
Atlanta, GA: Safety devices extinguished a blaze in an asphalt plant. No injuries were reported. More information |
Wednesday
Mar 27 |
Port Everglades, FL: Fire broke out in an asphalt tank at a chemical plant. More information |
Tuesday
Mar 26 |
Gary, IN: Three steel plant workers were injured in a series of explosion in a slag pit where waste collects after liquid iron is poured out of the blast furnace. More information |
Tuesday
Mar 26 |
Elyria, OH: A tanker truck delivering hydrochloric acid to a wheelchair manufacturing facility ruptured, spilling 400 gallons in the parking lot. More information |
Tuesday
Mar 26 |
Toronto, Canada: Fire spread through the walls and floor of a garment factory. More information |
Tuesday
Mar 26 |
Athens, GA: Four electricians at a nuclear plant were seriously burned in a flash fire when a grounding cable came too close to an energized circuit breaker. More information |
Tuesday
Mar 26 |
Linthwaite, U.K.: A blaze at a chemical plant destroyed two boilers and adjoining pipework. No injuries were reported but production was temporarily shut down. More information |
Monday
Mar 25 |
Djibouti, East Africa: Plastic drums containing 200 tons of chromated copper arsenate began leaking, threatening the pollute the port facility. More information |
Monday
Mar 25 |
Indianapolis, IN: Fourteen people required decontamination after workers cleaning a tank at an environmental company were exposed to the contents. Exposure spread to hospital workers and firefighters after several of the workers visited to local emergency room. More information |
Monday
Mar 25 |
Moncure, N.C.: Fire spread from the press at a wood processing plant into the duct work and onto the roof. More information |
Monday
Mar 25 |
Lubbock, TX: Beer flowed freely when a train collided with a tractor-trailer pulling into the distributors parking lot to make a delivery. More information |
Sunday
Mar 24 |
Turin, Italy: Fire swept through the warehouse at a steel plant. More information |
Sunday
Mar 24 |
Newcastle, WY: Cold weather and a frozen valve were blamed for the release of 14,000 pounds of silica catalyst, a brown powder that coated neighboring structures. More information |
Saturday
Mar 23 |
Roanoke, VA: Fire spread through a 145 acre illegal dump estimated to contain three million used tires. More information |
Saturday
Mar 23 |
Naameh, Lebanon: An explosion at a paint factory led to a fire that burned the facility to the ground. More information |
Saturday
Mar 23 |
Port Talbot, U.K.: Several small fire broke out at a steel plant. Eighteen weeks earlier an explosion destroyed a blast furnace at the plant. More information |
Friday
Mar 22 |
Germinston, South Africa: A car plant warehouse containing flammable chemicals was gutted by fire. More information |
Friday
Mar 22 |
South Bend, IN: A man shot four co-workers to death at an aircraft parts plant, then killed himself after a high speed pursuit by police. More information |
Thursday
Mar 21 |
Denver, CO: Workers cleaning up a former nuclear weapons facility were accidentally sprayed with radioactive liquid. Two required skin decontamination. More information |
Thursday
Mar 21 |
West Hazelton, PA: Workers were evacuated during a two-alarm fire at a plastic bag plant. More information |
Thursday
Mar 21 |
Port Jefferson, NY: More than 4,000 gallons of heating oil spilled from a barge into the water. Booms in place as fuel was off loaded caught the spilled oil. Meanwhile, at Astoria, N.Y. the same day, more than 2,000 gallons of oil spilled from a barge owned by the same company. More information |
Thursday
Mar 21 |
Saint John, New Brunswick: Three workers doing routine maintenance to a filter atop a 32-foot oil refinery stack were burned in an explosion triggered by a pressure release. More information |
Wednesday
Mar 20 |
Moscow, OH: Two men deslagging the inside of a power plant boiler were treated after a large chunk of hot coal dropped off, causing a steam explosion. More information |
Wednesday
Mar 20 |
Pasadena, TX: A tank damaged in an explosion last January at a chemical plant erupted again in flames. More information |
Tuesday
Mar 19 |
Sanford, N.C.: Two workers at an auto parts plant installing new equipment where burned in an electrical flash fire. More information |
Tuesday
Mar 19 |
Bethany, MO: Anhydrous ammonia used as fertilizer spilled and ignited as it was being pumped from a large storage tank. More information |
Tuesday
Mar 19 |
Greensboro, N.C.: A worker suffered second and third degree burns over 40 percent of his body in a flash fire at an automoble plant. More information |
Tuesday
Mar 19 |
Raal-Unuf, Libya: The countrys largest oil refinery caught fire and burned nearly three days. An explosion in an ethylene tank triggered the blaze. More information |
Monday
Mar 18 |
St. Paul, MN: A fire in a grain dryer that spread through the duct work shut down operations at an ethanol plant for a week. The plants sprinkler system quickly extinguished the fire. More information |
Monday
Mar 18 |
Ras al-Unuf, Libya: One of Libyas largest oil refineries was damaged when an ethylene tank caught fire. More information |
Monday
Mar 18 |
Paradip, India: A fire at a chemical plant warehouse storing about 15,000 tons of sulfur caused extensive damage. More information |
Sunday
Mar 17 |
Chatsworth, CA: An activated sprinkler system at a company that makes labels for CDs ran more than six hours before being discovered. More information |
Saturday
Mar 16 |
Dundee, Scotland: The area around a cement factory was evacuated when the breakdown of acetylene-powered machinery spawned fear of a gas explosion. More information |
Saturday
Mar 16 |
Atlanta, GA: Eight cars of a 79-car train derailed, leaking about 600 gallons of hexamethylene diamine. A one-mile radius was evacuated. More information |
Saturday
Mar 16 |
Wauwatosa, WI: Fire broke out in the die cast area of an engine plant. No injuries were reported. More information |
Friday
Mar 15 |
Birmingham, U.K.: Workers evacuated a metal manufacturing plant when a fire involving toxic chemicals broke out. More information |
Friday
Mar 15 |
Niagra Falls, NY: Two workers were injured when a small furnace at a graphite plant exploded. More information |
Wednesday
Mar 13 |
Neal, W.V.: Nearby residents were ordered to evacuate when a train transporting LPG derailed while entering a chemical plant. More information |
Tuesday
Mar 12 |
Honolulu, HI: A small fire in a heat exchange unit at an oil refinery was extinguished within 10 minutes by the plant brigade. More information |
Tuesday
Mar 12 |
Nashville, TN: Neighbors reported vapor rising from a tanker truck at a chemical plant. The vapor resulted from a small leak of hydrochloric acid during humid weather. More information |
Tuesday
Mar 12 |
Fukuoka, Japan: A fire at a chemical plant that started in a machine for winding nylon fibers forced the evacuation of nearly 9,000 residents. More information |
Tuesday
Mar 12 |
Toledo, OH: A fire in an oil refinery production unit took nearly three hours to extinguish. More information |
Monday
Mar 11 |
Loudon, TN: An accidental release of sodium hydroxide resulted in the evacuation of a paper plant. More information |
Monday
Mar 11 |
Stockport, U.K.: Cleanup of a gallon of liquid toxic waste spilled from a tanker forced the shutdown of a major motorway. More information |
Monday
Mar 11 |
Kingsport, TN: More than 11,000 gallons of liquid plasticiser spilled when two rail cars jumped the tracks near the citys wastewater treatment plant. More information |
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