Families of Three Firefighters Agree on Settlement for 2013 Texas Fertilizer Plant Explosion The families of three firefighters who were killed in the April 17th, 2013 explosion at the West Fertilizer plant in McClennan County, Texas agreed to an undisclosed…
USA - Gas Facility Explosion Leaves 3 Dead An explosion at a Louisiana natural gas facility Thursday left three workers dead and two seriously injured, police said. The explosion happened about 11 a.m. at a facility owned by the Transcontinental…
BEIJING (AP) — An explosion at a chemical factory in eastern China on Wednesday killed nine people and injured two others, officials and news reports said. The Xinhua News Agency said the cause of the explosion at a workshop owned…
Bosnia - 4 Coal Miners Dead, 2 Injured in Accident KAKANJ, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — A spokesman for a Bosnian coal mine says four miners died and two were injured in an overnight accident. Arif Zekic, spokesman for the Begici-Bistrani mine…
MSA's ALTAIR® 5X Multi-Gas Detector Now with PID and Bluetooth MSA's ALTAIR 5X Multi-gas detector for simultaneous detection of up to six gases offers a new photoionisation (PID) sensor option. Built upon durability and featuring MSA's industry-leading XCell® Sensors for…
Apollo Fire Detectors - the world-leading independent fire detection manufacturer - has further strengthened its leadership team with the appointment of Ed Browning as Sales & Marketing Director EMEA. Ed graduated in chemical engineering at the University of Birmingham, and…
Pemex says evacuated 85 workers after gas leak at Mexico platform Mexico's state-owned oil company Pemex said on Tuesday that it was working to control a gas leak at the Sihil A platform in the Gulf of Mexico. Eighty-five workers…
Brazil - Fire Breaks out Onboard Offshore Supply Vessel A fire has broken out onboard an offshore platform supply vessel (PSV), the Skandi Stolmen, off the Brazilian coast. According to a press release by operators DOF, the fire broke out…
CSB Probe: Safety Problems at DuPont Plant Where 4 Died A federal investigation into a poisonous gas leak that killed four workers at a Houston-area chemical plant in November found weaknesses and failures in the facility's safety planning and procedures, officials said…
41 hospitalized after chemical plant leak in central China ZHENGZHOU, -- Forty-one people have been hospitalized after a synthetic ammonia leak at a chemical plant in Henan Province, central China, on Friday morning, the Pingdingshan city government said. At about…
