A petrochemical factory that's one of the largest acrylic acid producers in China was partly engulfed in fire for nearly three hours yesterday in the Pudong New Area, but no one was injured and 50 fire engines were used to…
A fire triggered a number of blasts at a military depot in southern Russia, injuring about 30 people and causing the evacuation of more than 6,000 from a nearby village, investigators and emergency workers said. No cause has yet been determined…
A fire occurred at the Bratislava-based oil refinery Slovnaft on Monday, June 24. “We started an ethylene unit, and there was a smaller fire during this start, but it was soon extinguished by our factory firemen,” Slovnaft spokesperson Anton Molnár…
UNION MILLS, Ind. (AP) — An explosion Monday inside a grain elevator killed a worker at a sprawling northwestern Indiana farm co-op, authorities said. The cause of the blast at the Union Mills Co-op remained unknown Monday evening several hours…
ALMATY, Kazakhstan -- A traffic accident involving a gasoline tanker truck caused a huge fire in the center of Kazakhstan's largest city, Almaty.Kazakhstan's Emergency Situations Ministry says one person, the truck's driver, died in the accident on June 27.The truck…
THE chemical plant, which caught fire on Monday and injured six people in Jinshan District, was running an illegal operation and the people involved in the business did not have the licenses to handle chemical goods. Workers at the Shanghai…
Shell Nigeria said on June 20 that an explosion and fire caused by oil theft have forced it to shut down its Trans Niger Pipeline, which has a capacity of 150,000 barrels of crude a day. The statement said the theft…
GEISMAR, Louisiana — The deadly June 13 explosion and fire at the Williams Olefins chemical plant in Geismar released more than 62,000 pounds of toxic chemicals during the accident that killed two workers and injured 114 others, according to a…
The Petroleum Safety Authority Norway (PSA) has decided to initiate an investigation of the hydrocarbon leak that took place on the Oseberg A facility on 17 June 2013. The hydrocarbon leak occurred just after 07.00 hours on Monday, 17 June,…
Sellafield Limited has been fined £700,000 and ordered to pay £72,635.34 in costs at Carlisle Crown Court on June 14 for sending several bags of radioactive waste to a landfill site in Cumbria. The bags should have been sent to…
