More than 650 people are suffering from severe headaches, nausea, giddiness or other health problems after inhaling chemical vapour leaked from Hanwha Total Petrochemical’s Deasan plant in Seosan, west central South Korea, local authorities said on May 21. Video footage…
An oil firm has been fined more than £1m - one of the biggest ever fines in a case of its type - over a North Sea gas leak. The incident happened on Marathon Oil's Brae Alpha platform, 155 miles…
Seven people have been hospitalised after a chemical spill in Melbourne's west on Wednesday. The Metropolitan Fire Brigade was called to a depot of trucking company Toll Global Logistics in Laverton North after hydrofluoric acid was spilled at 10.48am. Seven…
A unified command has been set up to respond to a major gasoline product spill in the Houston Ship after a tanker and tug pushing two barges collided near Bayport, Texas, Friday afternoon. The unified command consists of the Coast…
An explosion killed at least three people and injured another on May 6 in the Uralchem Azot ammonia plant at Berezniki, in the Perm Region of central Russia, according to the Interfax news agency. The explosion occurred during welding work being…
According to data from the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), there were 137 oil spills across the USA in 2018, about 11 per month. The adjacent map shows both onshore and offshore spills over the year. Originally published…
The fire started when a construction loader vehicle collided with a pipeline during an attempt to repair a section of it between the cities of Ahvaz and Omidiyeh, Tasnim reported, citing local official Kiamars Hajizadeh A fire broke out at…
Passengers and crew on board a jet that was forced to make an emergency landing at a Moscow airport say it was struck by lightning moments before it crashed. Reports of the strike came as survivors told how they escaped…
Two people have been injured after a huge explosion rocked the UK’s largest steelworks, lighting up the night sky and waking up people up to 15 miles away. Residents near the Tata Steel site in Port Talbot said their houses…
Rail cars continued to burn through the early morning hours as Hazmat teams monitored air quality. A Union Pacific freight train carrying ethanol careened off its tracks in a Fort Worth neighborhood Wednesday and burst into flames, prompting an evacuation…
