On November 21, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) said it was removing many of the original measures proposed in an Obama-era regulation dubbed the Chemical Disaster Rule aimed at preventing disasters caused by dangerous chemical storage facilities.Damage after 250 tonnes of ammonium nitrate exploded...
We’re glad to have removed our equipment & got out early, before we got stung. A wood processing mill where four workers died in an explosion has been fined for exposing staff to asbestos. Three men and a woman died in 2015 at Wood Treatment Ltd in...
The US Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has fined a Chicago-area silicone factory $1.59 million for safety violations that were uncovered following a blast in May 2019 that killed four workers.The May 3 incident in Waukegan, around 50 miles (80 kilometres)...
A rupture in a corroded pipe elbow was possibly the cause of a fire and explosion at the Philadelphia Energy Solutions (PES) refinery in Philadelphia on June 21 this year, according to a new factual update issued this week by the U.S. Chemical Safety Board (CSB).After the...
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...