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Entries for June 2010
Wednesday
Jun 30 |
Atchison, KS: A small explosion blew the door off a grain elevator. More information |
Wednesday
Jun 30 |
Corpus Christi, TX: Lightning struck a transformer, knocking several refinery processing units offline. More information |
Wednesday
Jun 30 |
Dothan, AL: An electronics plant released 200 gallons of a paint mixture into a wastewater line. More information |
Wednesday
Jun 30 |
Brantford, ON: Fire swept through a factory that packages sawdust for animal bedding. More information |
Wednesday
Jun 30 |
Großdubrau, Germany: A potassium permanganate container exploded at a metallurgy powders plant. More information |
Wednesday
Jun 30 |
Lewiston, ID: A worker died while operating a paperboard machine at a paper mill. More information |
Wednesday
Jun 30 |
Jetmore, KS: A fire in a power plant transformer caused an outage. More information |
Wednesday
Jun 30 |
June 30 - Shahjahanpur, India: The gas supply to a fertilizer plant was affected when a tree fell on a pipeline. More information |
Wednesday
Jun 30 |
Harlow, UK: Vinyl acetate stored at a chemical plant began venting fumes. More information |
Wednesday
Jun 30 |
Moscow, Russia: Fire swept through a building at an air defense manufacturer. More information |
Wednesday
Jun 30 |
Largs Bay, Australia: Spontaneous combustion ignited chemicals at a bio-diesel plant. More information |
Wednesday
Jun 30 |
Franklin, NJ: State officials shut down an industrial complex due to an empty water tank and disabled sprinklers. More information |
Tuesday
Jun 29 |
Egletons Corrèze, France: Fire swept through a factory for lumber building materials. More information |
Tuesday
Jun 29 |
Plaseqcat, Spain: An explosion rocked a pharmaceutical plant. More information |
Tuesday
Jun 29 |
Pocasset, OK: 3 people were injured in a natural gas pipeline explosion. More information |
Tuesday
Jun 29 |
Beijing, China: Fire destroyed a warehouse containing polyethylene & acetone. More information |
Tuesday
Jun 29 |
Plumstead Twp., PA: Fire ripped through a plant that pulverizes materials into powder. More information |
Tuesday
Jun 29 |
Negev region, Israel: A rocket fired from Gaza struck a packaging plant. More information |
Tuesday
Jun 29 |
Eau Claire, WI: Hundreds of gallons of waste ink exploded at an environmental services facility. More information |
Tuesday
Jun 29 |
Elkfort, BC: An explosion in a coal dryer shut down a mine operation. More information |
Tuesday
Jun 29 |
Tokyo, Japan: A fire shut down a coal-fired power plant. More information |
Tuesday
Jun 29 |
Philomath, NC: Workers used hand-held extinguishers against a fire at a lumber mill. More information |
Tuesday
Jun 29 |
Nampa, ID: Fire ignited atop a tank at an asphalt tank. More information |
Tuesday
Jun 29 |
St. Boniface, MB: A blaze ripped through a St. Boniface rendering plant. More information |
Tuesday
Jun 29 |
Logan County, WV: Emergency crews responded to a fire at a coal processing plant. More information |
Tuesday
Jun 29 |
Beijing, China: Firefighters struggled to contain a blaze in a chemical plant. More information |
Tuesday
Jun 29 |
Lindsey, UK: A blaze that shut down a crude distillation unit at a refinery left 1 worker dead. More information |
Monday
Jun 28 |
Milton, PA: Fire gutted a closed factory. More information |
Monday
Jun 28 |
Shady Dale, GA: A fire destroyed a layer house at an egg production plant. More information |
Monday
Jun 28 |
Bedford, NS: Bunker fuel spilled from the top hatch of a tanker truck. More information |
Monday
Jun 28 |
Paducah, IL: Fire broke out behind a commercial mixer at an adhesives plant. More information |
Monday
Jun 28 |
Champaign, IL: A chemical spill and fire forced workers to evacuate a power plant. More information |
Monday
Jun 28 |
Sunbury, PA: 4 firefighters were treated during a fire in a disused industrial building. More information |
Monday
Jun 28 |
Vancouver, BC: A tractor-trailer rig caught fire at a snack chip plant. More information |
Monday
Jun 28 |
Charleston, SC: A pipeline fire broke out at a chemical plant. More information |
Monday
Jun 28 |
Hyderabad, Pakistan: A tanker truck carrying about 18 tons of CO2 catastropically ruptured, killing 14. More information |
Monday
Jun 28 |
Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne, France: 3 plant workers were injured in a aluminium powder explosion. More information |
Monday
Jun 28 |
Bolbec, France: 2 workers processing chemicals were injured in an explosion at a pharmaceuticals plant. More information |
Monday
Jun 28 |
Tangerang, Indonesia: A worker died when a steam boiler exploded at a paper mill. More information |
Monday
Jun 28 |
Catskill, NY: Nearly 3,000 gallons of sodium hypochlorite spilled when a tractor-trailer overturned. More information |
Monday
Jun 28 |
Ottawa, ON: A tanker truck leaking liquid oxygen forced the evacuation of the Royal Canadian Mint. More information |
Monday
Jun 28 |
King's Lynn, UK: A fire in a portable building spread to a food processing plant. More information |
Monday
Jun 28 |
Oberkorb, Germany: Manure leaked from a biogas plant into a nearby stream. More information |
Sunday
Jun 27 |
Homburg, Germany: Ammonia fumes leaking from a brewery shut down the city's center for several hours. More information |
Sunday
Jun 27 |
Schwandorf, Germany: Fire swept through feedstock at a biogas plant. More information |
Sunday
Jun 27 |
Halberstadt, Germany: Fire spread through wooden pallets stacked outside a furniture plant. More information |
Sunday
Jun 27 |
Homburg, Germany: Ammonia fumes leaking from a brewery shut down the city's center for several hours. More information |
Sunday
Jun 27 |
Delfzijl, Netherlands: At least 2 people were sickened by a widely reported odor near a refinery. More information |
Sunday
Jun 27 |
Windsor, ON: Discarded polyethylene fueled a smokey fire at a commercial plastics plant. More information |
Sunday
Jun 27 |
Marion, OH: Lightning ignited a fire on the roof of an industrial building. More information |
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