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A large explosion rocked the CEMEX plant a little after 2:40am yesterday, causing flames to shoot into the sky above that cement processing plant.

New Braunfels Fire and EMS crews were sent out to Wald Road CEMEX plant after plant managers reported the explosion, and after callers along I-35 reported seeing flames shoot over 30-feet into the...

An explosion and fire that tore through a Longwarry milk production plant in the early hours of the morning is believed to have caused more than $3 million in damage.

The explosion occurred at 1.20am in the milk drying plant at Longwarry Food Park, The Mackey St factory processes both wet and dry milk, and the fire started in a machine...

Tata Steel UK Ltd pleaded guilty in late January 2012 to breaching the Dangerous Substances and Explosives Atmospheres Regulations (DSEAR) 2002 Act at Scunthorpe Magistrates Court, and was ordered to pay £31,000 in fines and costs.

It followed a gas pipe fire at the steelworks, and was the second safety conviction in a number of weeks...

A dust explosion at a recycling plant in Arkansas blew the roof off a silo on February 10. No one was injured.

On Feb. 20, 2003, a powerful dust explosions tore through the CTA Acoustics plant in Corbin. The plant manufactured fiberglass insulation for the automotive industry. The accident became one of the worst in the US as seven lives were lost and scores were injured.

A CSB investigation found that the explosion was fueled by resin dust which had...

The California Department of Industrial Relations’ (DIR) Division of Occupational Safety and Health (Cal/OSHA) has issued 28 citations with penalties totalling $540,890 following an investigation of an explosion in Sylmar, California on August 9th 2011. The explosion resulted in the injury of three people. Investigators found violations at...

In a month already littered with boiler explosions, India was the latest to fall victim. Two workers, including a woman, were killed and four other workers sustained serious injuries in an explosion at a textile processing and calendering factory located in Sathyamangalam.

Calendering and processing were being undertaken using steam...

Manslaughter charges are being considered against bosses of the Chevron oil refinery where four people were killed last year it has emerged.

Three men and one woman were killed in the massive explosion at the plant on June 2nd last year in what was described as the UK’s worst refinery disaster for decades.

Since then, an inquiry is continuing...

Continuing on from our report last week, it has emerged that more bodies and survivors were pulled out from the wreckage of the collapsed pharmaceutical factory located in a residential area on the main Multan Road. this recent revelation brings the death toll to 22.

The three-storey factory that manufactured veterinary medicines caved in after...

At around 9.25pm on January 23rd fire fighters were called out to a factory along Estuary Drive.

Security guards alerted emergency officials after they heard a loud explosion inside the factory.

Jesse Yasudas of fire and disaster management said, "we could see that the sky had been lit up by this huge factory fire, which had gone through...

Following on from our story at the beginning of the week, it has emerged that another incident has taken place, this time in Pakistan but again involving women and children. 

Two people were killed with between 50 and 60 others feared trapped after a factory in a residential area collapsed following a boiler explosion.

Two deaths have...

Berhampur (Odisha), Jan 23 (PTI) A woman and two children were killed when a storage tank exploded at a cooperative sugar mill at Aska in Odisha's Ganjam district, police said today.

In the explosion last night at the Aska Cooperative Sugar Industries Ltd, three people were killed when thick spillage from the 2,000 tonne capacity molasses...

The anger and frustration of an up till now passive audience, is now becoming undone. In a statement made surrounding the disasters that plague the plant industry, a retired university of Michigan professor of aeronautical engineering said, "The science of explosion control is pretty simple. It's not rocket science,"

As we report...

Cannon-Muskegon, a company in Norton Shores Michigan, was the scene of a furnace explosion yesterday it is reported. 

Despite having 35 employees in the plant at the time, no injuries have been reported despite molten metal being sprayed all across the plants interior. As a result local fire services had difficulty gaining access to the...

On January 30th 2007 an incident at a convenience store involving propane gas claimed the lives of emergency respondents and propane technicians.

In a speech made by Chairman Rafael Moure-Eraso, he stated, "I am pleased to report today satisfactory progress in the adoption of a number of important CSB recommendations made in our final report...

The Babine sawmill in Burns Lake was destroyed Friday night, leaving the thousands of people it employed wondering where their next pay cheque will come from.

Nineteen people were hurt in the blast - some seriously - and two are missing and presumed dead. Some workers have reported that they smelled gas just before the explosion, but nothing...

A recent investigation into last years Hoeganaes plant explosion found 11 fire code violations. Five workers were killed last year in three separate fires at the manufacturing plant in Gallatin.

One of the violations involved a small amount of combustible dust that had gathered under a conveyor system. The buildup of dust in the plant has...

The subsidiaries of Lanco Resources Australia and collectively referred to as Griffin, have had charges laid against them over the char plant explosion on October 23, 2008.

No pleas have been entered and the charges have been adjourned to February 29.

A 61-year-old grandfather and electrical contractor Anthony (Tony) Eames of Bunbury, was left...

When big name brands feel the negative publicity pitch from safety incidents at their supplier sites, they use their resources to raise all boats to the same quality standards expected from the finished product outlet and Apple are no acception.

In response to the Foxconn explosion, as well as an explosion at Pegatron’s Riteng factory,...

A dust cloud and kerosene heater caused a large explosion at a manufacturing business plant in Edmond Oklahoma.
Officials said the explosion took place on Thursday morning and that once person is in a critical condition.

The incident is said to have taken place after employees attended to a clogged machine. When a pipe became disconnected a powdery...

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A 30-year-old plastic recycling unit employee was killed when an explosion resulted in an electric saw slipping off his hand and impaling his chest at Kaikondanahalli off Sarjapur Road on Wednesday afternoon.

The victim, Niranjan Ramdev Prasad, from Bihar, was working in the factory since 2009. His grandfather Nageshwar Singh also...

A plant owner in Colebrook New Hampshire has been indicted on charges of manslaughter and negligent homicide, after two men were killed and another seriously injured.

A report by OSHA officials determined that the explosion took place as the men hand fed powder into an operating machine. 

Craig Sanborn, the owner of the plant that...

Recycling plants are becoming a common site in most areas, as the Green Agenda requires people to recycle than dump their used parts. 

Car shredders and municipal waste plants frequently have to minimise the effects of explosions by containment and/or water mist.  These either minimise the incidents completely or contains the...

As we regularly report, fires and explosions have occurred at waste treatment facilities because of improper storage or handling of materials.

One Fire Marshall has gathered statistics on fires at waste facilities that show the following:

There were 15 fires at waste transfer sites, including two injuries.

There were 35 fires in recycling facilities,...

A recycling plant in Travis county that crushes old computers into dust and then sells that dust on to a recycler, has been the incident of the latest plant explosion.

Two people were injured in the blast on Tuesday afternoon at Travis County that fortunately saw no fatalities.

According to Pflugerville fire investigators, one of three...

In a previous blog, Explosion Hazards outlined the duties of the CSB. Below is an example of the work they carry out. 

In a recent investigation, CSB found that significant amounts of fine iron powder had accumulated over time at the Hoeganaes facility just outside of Nashville Tennessee, and that while the company knew from its own testing...

An investigation is underway at a chemical plant in the Nanhu district of Jiaxing. The explosion took place on Wednesday night according to the district information officer. The blast claimed the lives of three factory workers while four more were left with injuries. 

The accident happened late Wednesday night when a reaction kettle exploded...

One worker is missing and three others have been injured after an explosion ripped through a chemical plant in Shanghai's Songjiang District early this morning. 

The explosion happened at the Shanghai Habo Chemical Technology...

Since a previous ATEX Explosion Hazards blog, further details have emerged on the shanghai explosion:

An explosion took place last weekend at a Shanghai-based Apple factory, making it the third lethal incident at an Apple factory in only 15 months. The incident has left roughly 60 people injured and is currently under investigation...

The CSB is an independent federal agency charged with investigating serious chemical accidents. The agency's board members are appointed by the president and confirmed by the Senate. CSB investigations look into all aspects of chemical accidents, including physical causes such as equipment failure as well as inadequacies in regulations,...