CSB Investigators Deploying to Explosion at the Loy-Lange Box Company in Saint Louis, Missouri Washington, DC, April 6, 2017 – A three-person investigative team from the U.S. Chemical Safety Board (CSB) is deploying to the scene of an incident that…
Fukushima Internal Radiation Levels At Highest Level Since 2011 Meltdown, Cost Reach $150 BILLION Radiation levels inside a damaged reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station are at their highest since the plant suffered a triple meltdown almost six…
PEMEX Fuel Storage Facility Blast Injures Eight At least eight people were injured on March 15 by an explosion at a Pemex fuel storage and distribution facility near the state-owned oil company's Salamanca refinery, in the central Mexican state of…
PSA - New Report: How To Define "Worst Credible Process Fire"? Sintef has been commissioned by the Petroleum Safety Authority Norway to perform a mapping and assessment of how the industry defines "Worst Credible Process Fire". Through its audits and…
Evacuation From Sakhalin Platform Due To Gas Leak Gas leak was detected from Lunskaya-A platform in Lunskoye offshore field on 9 nautical miles from Sakhalin east coast in Okhots sea. The crew from the offshore platform were evacuated to standby…
Ukraine Ammunition Storage Facility Fire Causes Evacuation Of 20,000 https://youtu.be/6dX2HOo_gms Around 20,000 people have been evacuated from the area around the Balakliia ammunition storage facility in the eastern Kharkiv region of Ukraine after it caught fire on the morning of…
Korea Takes Responsibility For Power Plant Explosion In Vietnam Vietnam's state-owned power provider, EVN said chimney welders caused the explosion that severely injured them both. South Korea’s Doosan, the primary builder of a thermal power plant in the central province…
USA - Chlorine Gas Leak Occurs At Olin Chemical Plant Exactly one month to the day after a massive chlorine leak at the Olin Corporation chemical plant in McIntosh, the company tells another leak occurred. A spokesperson for Olin said…
Ukraine - Coal Mine Explosion In Kills Eight On March 1, a methane explosion killed at least eight coal miners and injured six others some 550 metres underground in western Ukraine's Lviv region. Ukrainian emergency officials said about 34 miners…
Somali Pirates Release Oil Tanker & Crew MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Somali pirates who seized a Comoros-flagged oil tanker earlier this week after five years without a major hijacking in the region have released the ship and its crew without…
