Celsa Steel has been fined £1.8 million after an explosion at its Cardiff plant killed two workers in November 2015. The company pleaded guilty to failing to make suitable and sufficient assessment of risks under the Health and Safety at Work Act.Celsa Steel Works, Cardiff...
ELVERSON, Pa. - Over a dozen employees were on the job at Vixen Hill Manufacturing, a company that makes gazebos and exterior products in Elverson, Chester County when they say a spark set fire to sawdust and caused an explosion."The whole building shook. There was...
ALBANY, Ore. – Two people are hurt after an explosion and fire at the Selmet plant in Albany, the Linn County Sheriff's Office said.The incident happened just before 8 a.m. at 33992 Seven Mile Lane Southeast, and the specialty metals industrial plant was immediately evacuated....
WAUKEGAN, Ill. (AP) - Investigators haven't been able to determine what caused an explosion at a Chicago-area silicone factory that killed four workers in May.Investigators still have not found a cause for a deadly Chicago-area factory explosion that killed four workers in May. (WLS/CNNVAN)Waukegan Fire Marshal...
This is a common problem with waste water sludge being made into Processed Sewage Pellets (PSP), the dust is very exothermic and prone to fires and explosions [gallery ids="17503,17504,17505,17506,17507,17508"]STAMFORD — Three people suffered minor injuries in an explosion late Thursday night at the city Water Pollution Control Facility.Dust from...
BREWSTER, MINNESOTA, U.S. — An explosion at one of the grain silos at the New Vision Cooperative elevator in Brewster, Minnesota, U.S., left one person injured, according to The Globe.According to the newspaper, firefighters responded to a report of a fire shortly before 10 a.m. on...
A sawdust hopper exploded and caught on fire at an industrial facility in San Leandro, CA last Sunday as contractors were performing welding work, the Alameda County Fire Department said in statements posted to social media networks. The welding ignited the sawdust and a sudden shift...
A worker has died this Sunday because of the serious injuries suffered in a fire and subsequent explosion occurred last night at the Hispanic Boards factory located in the municipality of Lugo. Another has been injured. Both operators were evacuated at first to the University Hospital Lucus Augusti by...
Two people have been injured after a series of explosions at the Tata Steel site in Port Talbot, south Wales, at 3.30 BST on April 26. Later in the morning, the company said the explosions were caused by a spill of liquid iron from a...
Three southern Wisconsin men are among the victims in the Waukegan silicone plant explosion Friday, according to multiple media outlets.The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel previously reported Allen Stevens, 29, of Paddock Lake died after paramedics took him to a hospital following the 9:30 p.m. Friday explosion...