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Entries for May 2006
Wednesday
May 31 |
Riverside, CA : A tanker truck overturned and spilled 6,400 gallons of oil on to a busy freeway. More information |
Tuesday
May 30 |
Mambai, India : 2 workers were killed in an explosion at an ammonium nitrate phosphate plant. More information |
Monday
May 29 |
Lanzhou, China : Four workers were killed in a fire and explosion in an organic chemical factory. More information |
Sunday
May 28 |
Baric, Serbia : Explosives at a chemical plant exploded and killed four workers. More information |
Saturday
May 27 |
Bayern, Germany : There was a chlorine gas leak at a water treatment plant. More information |
Friday
May 26 |
Beilen, Netherlands : A metal working plant was destroyed when a 124 gallon butane gas cylinder exploded. More information |
Thursday
May 25 |
Darivilliage, India : A gas leak at a prawn powder factory killed 4 people. More information |
Wednesday
May 24 |
Rajdot, India : 3 workers suffocated to death after entering an oil tank to clean it. More information |
Wednesday
May 24 |
Wilhelmshwan, Germany : A mixture of phosphoric and nitric acid spilled in a metal working plant. More information |
Wednesday
May 24 |
Porgo, Benin : A gasoline tanker ran off the road, exploded and killed 35 people. More information |
Tuesday
May 23 |
Indianapolis, IN : Workers in a chemical company came across a plastic barrel leaking hydrochloric acid. 1 person exposed to the chemical had to be decontaminated. More information |
Tuesday
May 23 |
Yates Center, KS : 2 people were killed when an oil tank exploded and started a fire. More information |
Tuesday
May 23 |
Salzburg, Austria : An aluminum powder explosion and fire that occurred in a plant the makes aluminum and magnesium granules. More information |
Tuesday
May 23 |
Zurich, Switzerland : A chemical company suffered $200,000 in damages with a truck loaded with sulphuric acid caught fire. More information |
Monday
May 22 |
Tokyo Bay, Japan: 3 crew members aboard a chemical tanker were killed from chemical poisoning while they were cleaning a tank that contained benzene in it. More information |
Monday
May 22 |
Waukesha, WI : A container filled with sulphuric acid broke open and 350 gallons spilled into a small stream. More information |
Monday
May 22 |
St. Paul MN : A rail tanker at a chemical company leaked hydrochloric acid and six people were sent to the hospital. More information |
Sunday
May 21 |
Kawasaki, Japan : Firefighters battled a blaze for more than 2 hours after an oil tank exploded at an oil refinery. More information |
Sunday
May 21 |
Tokyo, Japan : There was a small radiation leak in a nuclear power plant. More information |
Sunday
May 21 |
Manzini, Swaziland : A fire at a chemical factory led to several thousand dollars in damages. More information |
Saturday
May 20 |
Norco, LA : An explosion at a refinery started a fire that was fuelled by diesel and hydrogen. More information |
Saturday
May 20 |
Maireville, OH : Firefighters used thermal imaging cameras to locate and extinguish a hydrogen fire at a silicon manufacturing plant. More information |
Friday
May 19 |
Havana, IL : 2 men were killed after they were overcome by some type of gas while working on a well. More information |
Thursday
May 18 |
Kaliakoir, Bangladesh : 1 worker was killed in a machine explosion at a textile mill. More information |
Thursday
May 18 |
Pingshan, County, China : A power plant explosion killed 3 people. More information |
Thursday
May 18 |
Arnoldstein, Austria : A hose burst and 2 workers were burned by stearic acid while pumping the acid into a tanker. More information |
Thursday
May 18 |
Brockway, PA : An explosion occurred at a chemical plant while 2 workers were making stabilized bromine. More information |
Wednesday
May 17 |
Los Angeles, CA : 1 hazmat team, 4 companies of firefighters and ambulances were called to a rail yard after styrene monomer leaked from a rail tanker. More information |
Tuesday
May 16 |
Weyers Cave, VA : 1 person was injured in an explosion at a metal fabrication plant. More information |
Tuesday
May 16 |
Bell City, LA : 1 person was killed in an oil well explosion. More information |
Tuesday
May 16 |
Minneapolis, MN : Molten aluminum splashed the face and arm of a worker at an aluminum manufacturing plant. More information |
Monday
May 15 |
Catoosa, OK : Heating coils were the cause of a fire and explosion at an asphalt processing plant. More information |
Sunday
May 14 |
Cheste, Spain: Fire broke out in a factory that manufactures cleaning products. More information |
Sunday
May 14 |
Jiuzhaigou, China : A truck carrying ten barrels of toluene di-isocyante overturned and dumped all the containers into an adjacent river. More information |
Saturday
May 13 |
Ukraine: An oil pipeline was damaged in an explosion while it was being tested. More information |
Saturday
May 13 |
Ho Chat Minh City, Vietnam : A barge carrying 830 cubic meters of gasoline exploded and injured 2 people. More information |
Friday
May 12 |
Wynnewood, OK : An explosion occurredin an alkylation’s unit at an energy refinery. More information |
Friday
May 12 |
Indianapolis, IN : Workers were transferring sulfuric acid from a truck to a tank when the pipe broke and sprayed 20 gallons of 97 percent sulfuric acid inside an aluminum fabrication plant. More information |
Friday
May 12 |
Inagbe Beach, Nigeria : 150 people were killed in an explosion while trying to steal gasoline from a petroleum corporation. More information |
Thursday
May 11 |
Fieldsboro, NJ : A valve popped off a pressurized tank and sulfuric acid leaked inside a chemical company. More information |
Thursday
May 11 |
Limay, Philippines : 2 workers were injured in an explosion aboard an oil tanker. More information |
Thursday
May 11 |
Leer, Germany : It took 15 hours to extinguish a fire at an automobile recycling center. More information |
Wednesday
May 10 |
Guangzhou, China : A chemical warehouse was evacuated after some chemicals leaked and self-ignited. More information |
Wednesday
May 10 |
Athlone, Africa : More than 200 people were hospitalized for an ammonia leak at an ice cream factory. More information |
Monday
May 08 |
Reno, NV : An employee at a chemical company accidentally created chlorine gas when the employee failed to clean hydrochloric acid from a tube. More information |
Monday
May 08 |
Rajkot, India : A tanker carrying 12,000 kg of ammonia gas overturned and started leaking. More information |
Monday
May 08 |
Debe, Trindad and Tobago : A brush fire set a pipeline on fire. More information |
Sunday
May 07 |
Richards Bay, Africa : A major fire broke out in a phosphoric acid plant after a transformer caught fire, burning oil and cables. More information |
Saturday
May 06 |
Baltimore, MD : 1 hundred gallons of nitric acid spilled and injured 12 workers while they were transferring the acid from 1 tanker railcar to another vehicle. More information |
Thursday
May 04 |
Voronezh, Russia : 25 gallons of butadiene leaked from a storage container at a synthetic rubber plant. More information |
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