BALTIMORE (WJZ) — An explosion Thursday morning at a Baltimore coal plant shook homes across the city and sent smoke billowing into the air. The loud blast occurred shortly after 11:30 a.m. at a CSX Curtis Bay Coal Terminal on Benhill Avenue, officials and company representatives...
An explosion and significant fire at a cannabis extraction facility in Los Angeles, US killed two people and seriously injured two others on October 18. Though the business was a legal enterprise, the operation inside appeared to be illegal, as it did not adhere to...
Investigators have concluded that malfunctioning equipment caused an April explosion and fire at the Yenkin-Majestic Paint and OPC Polymers Corp. factory on the Near East Side that left one man dead, injured several others and caused more than $1 million in property damage. The official determination...
An explosion and fire at a lumber plant in Quebec, Canada injured eight people on September 20. Two people received treatment at the scene while six others suffered serious burn injuries and had to be transferred to a specialist trauma unit at a hospital in...
The UK Health & Safety Executive (HSE) has fined a company £26,000 after an explosion seriously injured a worker in September 2019. Fabric flameproofing company, Fabric Flare Solutions, pleaded guilty to breaching the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 after an explosion at its...
Dust Safety Science has published its 2021 Mid-Year Incident Report with coverage of combustible dust incidents from around the world including statistics, comparisons, and source data. Since 2016, the organisation has published semi-annual reports analysing the materials, industries, and equipment involved in combustible dust fires...
The UK Health & Safety Executive (HSE) has fined chemical company Briar Chemicals £1 million after an explosion killed a contractor at its Norwich plant in 2018. The death of maintenance contractor Rob Cranston, aged 46, was previously ruled as “accidental” following an 11-day jury...
Several people have been injured in an explosion at Hazlehurst Wood Pellets in Georgia, US. Four employees were sent to hospital, with two having to be airlifted. One of the victims drove to the hospital by private car with a hand injury, WTOC, a Georgia-based news channel,...
A deadly explosion at a waste treatment plant in Germany was probably caused by a chemical reaction, a provisional report has found. Seven people were killed in the blast in the Chempark industrial area of Leverkusen on 27 July, and a further 31 people were injured....
The newly completed Medupi coal plant in South Africa – one of the biggest and likely the most expensive and controversial in the world – has been severely damaged after an explosion in one of its units caused by a hydrogen leak. The 4.8GW Medupi coal generator –...