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Grain silo explosion injures one in Canada

A worker suffered sever burn injuries on April 2 after a fire and explosion in a grain silo at the Port of Vancouver,...

08 April, 2021 / 0 Comments

Distillery explosion injures three in US

An explosion at a distillery in the US state of Colorado injured three people on February 27. The blast happened at Elkins Distilling...

31 March, 2021 / 0 Comments

Inquest finds death of contractor at UK chemical factory in 2018 was accidental

A jury inquest into the July 2018 death of a contractor following an explosion at a chemical plant in Norwich, UK has concluded...

19 March, 2021 / 0 Comments

No fatalities in US from grain dust explosions in 2020, new report says

But the biggest quantity of incidents were in bucket elevators! According to new research from researchers in Purdue University’s Department of Agriculture and Biological...

12 March, 2021 / 0 Comments

The Avonmouth explosion was horrific. But it wasn’t unprecedented.

The business of recycling sewage into fertiliser, and the wider wastewater treatment industry, has been chequered by explosions and industrial accidents.The date of...

22 February, 2021 / 0 Comments

Safety equipment failed to detect flammable gas before explosion which killed father, inquest hears

Highly flammable gas went undetected prior to the blast which killed a father as he carried out maintenance work, an inquest has heard.Contractor Robert Cranston was...

18 February, 2021 / 0 Comments