The operating manager of the coal mine where 18 miners were trapped due to flooded water has said they measured the content of the leaked water inside the mine by “tasting” it, while five people including the operating manager were…
An explosion at the Rigoni chemical facility in Córdoba, north western Argentina, has injured 66, according to the Buenos Aires Herald. Two of the injured are in serious condition, and the November 6 explosion caused serious material damage, according to…
The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) released the latest edition of its U.S. Firefighter Injury Report which highlights data on injuries sustained by firefighters on duty. The statistics were collected from fire departments responding to the 2013 NFPA survey for U.S. Fire Experience.…
Oil firm Royal Dutch Shell was told a pipeline had reached the end of its life years before it spilled up to 500,000 barrels of oil, according to court documents seen by the BBC. Two spills in 2008 affected about…
A fire at an electrical substation at Imperial Oil - Sarnia late Wednesday afternoon caused black smoke to billow from a flare stack. The company says plant emergency sirens sounded but the small fire was quickly put out and there…
Shell is investigating the cause of a fuel leak at its refinery in Geelong today. The facility was locked down after fire-fighters were alerted to the uncontrolled leak in the refinery's catalytic cracking unit about 5am. The company declared the…
A corroded pipe on a North Sea platform which caused a potentially explosive leak was flagged in an inspection as early as 2009. The incident at Talisman’s Saltire facility happened in a pipe the oil firm had reported was redundant.…
The owners of a New Zealand coal mine where the bodies of 29 workers remain entombed after a methane-fueled explosion four years ago, said they won't go back into the mine because it remains too dangerous. The announcement by state-owned…
Figures published on October 2014 show that while Britain continues to be one of the safest places to work in Europe, many workers are still being injured or made ill by work. Injury and ill-health statistics released by the Health…
Prosecutors have demanded life imprisonment for eight executives of a coal mine company in Turkey operating a facility where 301 workers were killed in May in the country's worst mining accident, media reported on Wednesday. Prosecutors in the western city…
