Explosion at a chemical plant in East China has claimed the lives of four people, the Associated Press reported, citing China's Xinhua News Agency. The explosion occurred today at the Tsushan Chemical Plants Co. in Shandong province south-east of Beijing…
TAIPEI, Jan. 29 (Xinhua) -- An explosion occurred at an oil refinery in the city of Taoyuan at 6:42 a.m. Monday. More than 40 fire engines were sent to the scene. The fire has been brought under control and no…
Washington D.C. January 25, 2018 – The U.S. Chemical Safety Board announced today that it will be moving forward with a full investigation into the fatal gas well explosion near Quinton, Oklahoma. The explosion fatally injured five workers. Upon notification…
PTI reported that at least four workers were killed and nine others injured on January 21 in a blast at the GSP Crop Science chemical plant in Nandesari, an industrial suburb of Vadodara in Gujarat. The blast led to a…
On January 19, a Canadian court cleared three railway workers of criminal negligence in one of the country's worst train disasters, which killed 47 people in the eastern Quebec town of Lac-Megantic in 2013. Former Montreal, Maine & Atlantic (MM&A)…
An employee was killed while four others, including a deputy manager, were injured in a blast in the naphtha cracker plant (NCP) on the premises of the Indian Oil Corporation Refinery and Petro Chemical Complex at Baoli village in the…
Five people are missing after a fiery explosion ripped through an eastern Oklahoma drilling rig on Monday, sending plumes of black smoke into the air and leaving a derrick crumpled on the ground, emergency officials said. More than 20 employees…
(BBC) There are fears of an environmental disaster in the East China Sea as a tanker continues to leak oil two days after colliding with a cargo ship. Chinese officials have told state media the Sanchi is in danger of…
CSB Releases Final Report into Chemical Release at MGPI Industries; Report Emphasizes Key Safety Lessons to Prevent Future Inadvertent Mixing Incidents Washington D.C., January 3, 2018 - Today the U.S. Chemical Safety Board released its case study titled “Key Lessons…
HOUSTON (Reuters) - A small flange fire broke out on the reformer at Citgo Petroleum Corp’s [PDVSAC.UL] 157,500 barrel-per-day (bpd) Corpus Christi, Texas, refinery on Thursday night, a company official said. The fire began during pre-startup of the 20,000 bpd…
