Huay Yai police were called out by the local fire brigade on the afternoon of Thursday, 15th January to attend to a fire that had broken out at a petrol refinery unit in Khao Mai Kheow. It took the team…
Passengers described how they were rushed into a sealed safe room in a frightening ordeal Eurotunnel passengers have described their frightening ordeal after their train filled with smoke, causing oxygen masks to drop from the ceiling before they were ushered…
One person died and 11 others were injured following an explosion caused by a short-circuit at Survival Technologies' chemical factory in Ankleshwar, Gujarat, India. According to Ankleshwar Gujarat Industrial Development Corporation (GIDC) police, a chemical barrel containing 4-Hydroxybenzoic acid exploded…
An explosion that rocked Petrobras’ second largest Brazilian refinery Sunday and left three people seriously burned has sparked work slowdowns amid growing safety concerns. The blast happened in the U-38 hydrogen generation unit at Petrobras’ 320,000 barrel per day Landulpho…
SEOUL, South Korea — LG Display said Monday two people were killed and four others sickened by a nitrogen leak at its factory north of Seoul. LG Display Co. said in a statement that the victims, employed by a LG…
The August 2008 Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) oil pipeline explosion at Refahiye in eastern Turkey was said at the time to have been caused by a technical failure, although anti-Turkish PKK militants also claimed responsibility. This too was considered plausible, because of…
KUWAIT, Jan 15 (KUNA) -- The Kuwait National Petroleum Company (KNPC) has controlled a very limited fire at the heavy oil unit of the Al-Shuaiba refinery. "The fire has been put under control at a record time of 30 minutes,"…
QUITO, Ecuador — A sudden collapse at the site of Ecuador's largest-ever infrastructure project killed 13 people and injured a dozen more, officials said Sunday. The Chinese embassy in Quito confirmed that 10 Ecuadorean and three Chinese workers were killed…
COALGATE, Okla. — An explosion and fire at a southeastern Oklahoma oil rig early Friday killed two workers and injured three others, two of them critically. The explosion occurred around 1 a.m. on the deck of a rig about 2…
Firefighters have brought a fire under control in the Hazelwood coal mine in Morwell, in Victoria's east, where a blaze burned for more than a month earlier this year. The Country Fire Authority (CFA) was called to the blaze just…
