Manslaughter charges against the owner of a wood mill in Cheshire, UK where four people died in a 2015 explosion were dropped on April 29. A day later, on April 30, two mill managers were cleared of health and safety offences as well, bringing an...
The investigation by the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB) and OSHA into the causes of a fatal explosion and fire at the Yenkin-Majestic Paints and OPC Polymers manufacturing site in Columbus, Ohio, on April 8th, 2021, resulting in one death, five hospitalizations,...
A worker suffered sever burn injuries on April 2 after a fire and explosion in a grain silo at the Port of Vancouver, Canada. The incident is reported to have been a dust explosion and happened while two workers were cleaning the silo. Local news sites...
An explosion at a distillery in the US state of Colorado injured three people on February 27. The blast happened at Elkins Distilling Company in Estes Park, northern Colorado and injured three employees. Estes Valley Fire Protection District said it was called to the scene at...
A jury inquest into the July 2018 death of a contractor following an explosion at a chemical plant in Norwich, UK has concluded that it was accidental. The 11-day inquest into Robert Cranston’s death at the Briar Chemicals factory ended on December 1 with the...
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 Engineering, there were zero fatalities during 2020 in the United States as a result of grain dust explosions.Kingsly Ambrose, Purdue University Associate...
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 working on a tank at Briar Chemicals, Norwich, in July 2018 when he suffered serious injuries and thermal burns in an explosion.The Briar Chemicals plant...
Sun Services’ C&D recycling facility in Beltsville, Maryland, was rocked by an explosion on the morning of Feb. 5 after a gas tank was accidentally fed into the recycler’s shredder. The gas tank was concealed among other construction and demolition materials, WTOP News reports.Sun Services, which specializes...
JAY (WGME) – Workers at the paper mill in Jay experienced their third round of layoffs since a chemical explosion at the plant in April. More layoffs at Jay paper mill after explosion This week, Pixelle Specialty Solutions, the owner of the paper mill in Jay, let...
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