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No Fatalities
Thursday
Jan 20 |
St. Louis, MO: A haz mat incident and fire at a chemical plant was made more difficult by a -13o F windchill. More information |
Thursday
Jan 20 |
St. Louis, MO: A tractor trailer at an industrial complex spread to a nearby building. More information |
Thursday
Jan 20 |
Tamaqua, PA: An explosion at a magnesium-processing plant injured four workers. More information |
Wednesday
Jan 19 |
Temple, TX: Four workers were injured in a fire that destroyed a foam plastics plant. More information |
Tuesday
Jan 18 |
Elk Grove, OH: A working fire was reported at a local factory. More information |
Tuesday
Jan 18 |
Penninsula, OH: A three-alarm fire broke out on the roof of a two-story factory. More information |
Tuesday
Jan 18 |
Shreveport, LA: Two workers were injured, one critically, after a naptha explosion at a refinery. More information |
Tuesday
Jan 18 |
Sulphur, LA: A flash fire at a gas well injured five workers, two of them seriously. More information |
Tuesday
Jan 18 |
Boston Heights, OH: Fire spread through a two-story factory building. More information |
Monday
Jan 17 |
Chesterfield Township, MI: Fire broke out on the roof of a stamping plant. Frozen hydrants hindered fire operations. More information |
Monday
Jan 17 |
Hackensack, NJ: Smoke from a four-alarm fire at a candle company was visible for 25 miles. More information |
Monday
Jan 17 |
Kiel, WI: A small methanol spill resulted when a railroad tanker car derailed and overturned. Several hundred area residents were evacuated. More information |
Monday
Jan 17 |
St. Paul, MN: At least 12 chemical plant workers were overcome by fumes from leaking tetrahydrofuran. More information |
Sunday
Jan 16 |
Dover, N.H.: Fire broke out on the roof of the batch plant at a concrete factory. More information |
Friday
Jan 14 |
Dearborn, MI: A spectacular, but not destructive fire broke out in a raw storage stockhouse at a steel plant, part of an auto making complex. More information |
Friday
Jan 14 |
Durham, N.H.: A rollover involving a tractor-trailer carrying sodium hydroxide did not result in a spill. More information |
Wednesday
Jan 12 |
Berks Co., PA: More than 800 gallons of milk spilled onto the roadway after an accident that brought high tension power lines down onto a tanker truck. More information |
Wednesday
Jan 12 |
Niles, IL: An explosion and fire collapsed a portion of a one-story factory. Four workers were transported. More information |
Monday
Jan 10 |
Clifton, NJ: A fire at large cloth factory destroyed a shed and damaged a restroom. More information |
Sunday
Jan 09 |
Edinburgh, IN: Two firefighters trapped on a catwalk 85 feet in the air were burned while battling a fire at a furniture veneer plant. More information |
Saturday
Jan 08 |
North Branford, CN: Several workers were burned in an industrial fire involving various chemicals. More information |
Thursday
Jan 06 |
Chicago, IL: Fire spread through a four-story factory building. More information |
Wednesday
Jan 05 |
Cleveland, OH: Fire was reported on the roof of a one-story factory. More information |
Tuesday
Jan 04 |
Davie, FL: An explosion and ammonia leak at an ice plant sent two people to the hospital. More information |
Tuesday
Jan 04 |
Lansdowne, PA: A fire gutted a pigment factory, resulting in at least 35 people being evacuated from their homes. More information |
Tuesday
Jan 04 |
West Hartford, CN: Fire broke out in a two-story heat treating plant. More information |
Friday
Dec 31 |
Chicago, IL: Heavy fire was reported at a four-story mill. More information |
Thursday
Dec 30 |
Apex, N.C.: A fire that began in the paint room of a manufacturing plant broke through the roof. More information |
Monday
Dec 27 |
Palmer, MA: Fire broke through the roof of a local plant. More information |
Friday
Dec 24 |
Alsip, IL: Fire was reported at a local refinery. More information |
Thursday
Dec 23 |
East Joliet, IL: Fire broke out in the coal hopper in the breaker building for a power plant. More information |
Wednesday
Dec 22 |
Smyrna, GA: Eight tank cars overturned, one with ammonia. More information |
Monday
Dec 20 |
Freeport, TX: A chemical tank explosion critically burned one worker and sent two others to the hospital for smoke inhalation. More information |
Sunday
Dec 19 |
Franklin Township, N.J.: A large uncontroled chemical reaction was reported at a chemical plant. More information |
Sunday
Dec 19 |
Lehigh County, PA: The sprinkler system at a plastics plant activated to protect hydrogen fluoride cylinders from spreading flames. More information |
Sunday
Dec 19 |
Lehigh County, PA: An overfilled tank spilled 1,000 barrels of oil into the surrounding dike, which then leaked into a secondary containment. More information |
Thursday
Dec 16 |
Anaheim, CA: A two-alarm fire was reported at a metal plating company. More information |
Wednesday
Dec 15 |
Portland, OR: A train derailment on a bridge over the Willamette River caused a natural gas-fed fire. More information |
Wednesday
Dec 15 |
Woonsocket, R.I.: Fire broke out in the boiler room of a three-story mill building. More information |
Tuesday
Dec 14 |
East Joliet, IL: A coal dust fire broke out at a power plant. More information |
Tuesday
Dec 14 |
Springfield, MA: A 1,000 gallon LPG tank at a chemical company was reported to be leaking. More information |
Monday
Dec 13 |
Montague, MA: Fire was reported at a local factory. More information |
Sunday
Dec 12 |
Bridgewater, MA: Fire broke out in a 1,000 gallon methane gas storage tank. More information |
Saturday
Dec 11 |
Camden, N.J.: A three-alarm fire was reported at a local factory. More information |
Friday
Dec 10 |
DeKalb County, GA: Fire spread through a plant for washing soiled rags. More information |
Friday
Dec 10 |
Wisconsin Rapids, WI: An ammonia released forced the evacuation of workers at a food plant. More information |
Thursday
Dec 09 |
Oak Ridge, TN: A chemical explosion at a nuclear weapons plant injured 10 workers. More information |
Thursday
Dec 09 |
Costa Mesa, CA: A one-story plastics factory was reported fully involved. More information |
Tuesday
Dec 07 |
Bogata, N.Y.: Fire broke out at a paper recycling factory. More information |
Saturday
Dec 04 |
Gary, IN: A large acid spill was reported at a steel plant. More information |
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