Operations at the Pinnacle Pellet plant in Houston are currently shut down due to a “fire-related event” that injured three employees Nov. 25.In a statement, the company said the employees “sustained minor injuries and were taken to Smithers Hospital as a precautionary measure.”Pinnacle also thanked...
Should have used a competent contractor for hazardous work.The UK’s Health & Safety Executive announced on November 16 that a Managing Director of a construction company has received a suspended sentence after an employee suffered severe burns on a construction site in Swynecombe, Oxfordshire in...
Investigations are continuing into what caused an explosion at a waste water treatment works that killed four people.Three employees of Wessex Water and a contractor were killed in the blast at a water recycling centre in Kings Weston Lane, Avonmouth, on Thursday.The explosion happened at...
Seven contractors were injured on December 5 after an explosion at the Magellan Midstream Partners petroleum storage tank farm in Corpus Christi, Texas. The incident happened at around 10:00 local time when the contractors were cleaning a petroleum tank. Corpus Christi Deputy Fire Chief Richie Quintero...
This is one I have not heard of before but proper “Management Procedures” would apply from (see article 8) Do we need to take precautions, as part of our managerial responsibilities and if so, why and to what extent? Well, there may be a risk of injury or...
The son of a man killed in an explosion at a chemical plant in Norwich was working alongside him when the accident happened, an inquest has heard.Robert Cranston, 46, suffered serious injuries when flammable gas ignited causing an explosion as he was working to repair...
The pellet production facility in British Columbia has experienced two dryer fires so far this year.Crews were called to the Pinnacle Renewable Energy pellet manufacturing plant in Lavington, BC on Tuesday after a blaze ignited in a piece of drying equipment inside the facility, local news organizations...
An explosion at a food processing plant in Arkansas, US injured three workers on October 15 and caused damage to the facility’s structure. The blast happened in a building used to store rough and milled rice at a facility owned by food manufacturer Riceland. The blast...
Five workers were hospitalised after an explosion at a fertiliser factory in New Zealand on October 6. The blast happened in Dunedin on New Zealand’s south eastern coast at a factory belonging to Ravensdown. The five people taken to hospital were all released after a few...
Two explosions in bulk terminal facilities in the course of a month. The one in Beirut was far more disastrous than the one at a grain store in Tilbury — although the latter is a far more common occurrence. And, of course, in the case...