May 22- Crews were called to the plant at William Pickering Drive, Rosedale about 1am on Wednesday. May 21, PLYMOUTH — Plymouth firefighters responded to the Pilgrim nuclear power plant at 4:20 a.m. Monday to check an overheated turbine lubrication pump. May 21- A Sunday morning fire at the Laramie River Station power plant near Wheatland injured three workers, sending one to a Colorado burn center Monday. May 21- A FACTORY plant has been damaged after a fire broke out at Carole Park in Brisbane's southwest on Monday night. May 20- Five people have been confirmed dead in a blast that ripped through an explosives manufacturing plant in east China's Shandong Province Monday morning. May 20- The Polyfils Division of Ganesha Ecosphere Ltd located at Raipur, Rania, Kalpi Road, Kanpur Dehat, engaged into manufacturing of Recycled Polyester Staple Fibre, was caught by fire at the extruder level on May 14, 2013. May 20- An employee for Blick's Phosphate Conversion, LLC, is in critical condition in a Utah hospital after he was injured Saturday at Simplot's Don Plant. May 20, WHEATLAND, Wyoming — One worker was hospitalized and two others treated and released after a second fire in a week at the same power plant. May 18, WEBSTER CITY, Iowa (AP) - Worker demolishing a former Electrolux plant apparently sparked a fire that sent billows of black smoke into the sky above Webster City. May 18- An engineer at Tehran's Shahid Tondgooyan Oil Refinery was killed in an incident while overhauling a unit, the Mehr News Agency reported. May 17- LyondellBasell Industries N.V. (LYB) reported May 16 that its Houston refinery experienced flaring due to unspecified operational issues. May 17- A fire broke out around 10:30 am Thursday at a petrochemical refinery in Pudong New Area, local media reported. No injuries or deaths were reported. May 17, VISAKHAPATNAM: A major blast rocked the Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited (HPCL) refinery at Malkapuram in the city at around 10.30pm. May 17- Nigeria LNG has declared force majeure on its liquefied natural gas exports from at Bonny Island a day after Shell halted its supplies to the Bonny Island facility over a reported leak. May 16, CHARLES CITY — The Charles City Fire Department was called to Cambrex in Charles City for a fire in a scrubber unit at the facility late Wednesday evening. May 16- The Atomic Weapons Establishment, which makes and maintains warheads for the UK's Trident nuclear deterrent, today admitted putting employees at risk. May 16, FRANKLIN — Firefighters who put out a blaze at a plant in Franklin said they’ve been called there a few times. May 15- A "small fire" at a nuclear power plant which provoked a major response by the emergency services has been extinguished without anyone suffering injuries, police have said. May 15, MARQUETTE -- Firefighters were called to the WE Energies Presque Isle power plant in Marquette Tuesday night for a report of a roof fire on the number four building. The fire broke out just before 9:30 p.m May 15- JAMSHEDPUR: A fire broke out in the coal conveyor system of Tata Power's Jojobera power station here this morning but did not affect generation or injure anybody. May 15, CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Nobody was hurt in a fire at a power plant near Wheatland. May 15- A poisonous cloud containing a potentially cancer-causing chemical was accidentally released over Frankfurt on Tuesday, with residents of two districts warned to stay indoors throughout the afternoon. May 14- KALYAN: A 30-year-old died while four others suffered serious injuries in an explosion at a chemical factory in Dombivli on Monday morning. May 14, PUTNAM COUNTY, W.Va. -- Airgas in Putnam County will not open Tuesday after an explosion at the facility left two people hurt. May 14- Two workers were injured after an explosion and a fire at an industrial site in Putnam County yesterday. May 14- No one was injured in a fire Tuesday at the Basin Electric-owned Laramie River Station power plant in Wheatland, according to the Platte County Sheriff’s Office. May 13- An inspection of Sanford’s cold store at North Mole, Timaru, this morning has revealed major damage to the environmental load out area and the front portion of the coldstore following a fire yesterday afternoon.
May 13, COLONIE -- Dozens of firefighters knocked down flames at an old Colonie factory on Sunday afternoon. May 13, MANILA, Philippines - An explosion rocked a power plant in Iloilo province, destroying a steel tower in the area, the Philippine National Police reported on Monday. May 13- A machinery fire at an industrial plant at 3140 N. 7th Street Tfwy. in Kansas City, Kan., caused about $50,000 worth of damage. May 13, WINFIELD, W.Va. - An explosion and fire at a West Virginia plant that supplies industrial gases left two men injured Monday afternoon, authorities said. May 13- Magna International said the cause of an explosion at one of their auto parts plants in Newmarket on Wednesday morning has been determined. May 13- An explosion killed at least 28 workers at the Taozigou mine in Luxian County, Sichuan Province, with a further 16 taken to hospital with injuries of whom three are in a critical condition. May 13, POCA, W.Va. — Two workers were injured Monday when highly flammable gas used in welding exploded at a West Virginia industrial site, officials said. May 12- A Sunday fire at a recycling plant in South El Paso caused $20,000 in damage, but the cause still hasn't been determined, El Paso fire officials said. May 11- A circuit breaker caught fire around 1:00 PM Friday at Alcoa, partially knocking out power at the plant and causing the lights to flicker all over the Quad Cities. May 10, Sterling – A Plainfield man was injured in a chemical explosion Friday during an apparent industrial accident at Austin Powder, 332 Ekonk Hill Road, which manufactures industrial explosives. May 10- A warehouse supplying parts to Nissan Motor Co. Ltd.’s and Renault SA’s factory in India was almost destroyed by fire on Thursday, a Nissan spokeswoman said, possibly affecting production at the 400,000-car-per-year plant. May 10- An investigation was ongoing into a fire at a production well owned by Newfield Exploration in Utah that killed one worker and injured two others this week. May 10- On May 6 one person was killed in a gas leak incident at Saudi Aramco’s Jeddah refinery, according to the Saudi Press Agency. May 9- Mathura: Four oil tankers kept at a private godown, close to Mathura petroleum refinery, were burnt to ground in a fire, officials said today. May 9- A Wednesday fire that destroyed part of the Wahoo Locker plant was accidental, Nebraska State Fire Marshal Jim Heine said Thursday. May 9, MANTUA TWP. — Fire crews battled a two-alarm fire at a recycling plant on Lambs Road Thursday afternoon. May 9- At least eight people have been killed in a fire that swept through a Bangladesh knitwear plant in an industrial district of the capital, Dhaka, as the death toll rose to nearly 900 from a clothes factory collapse two weeks ago. May 9- A "Yalda" chemical plant in Iran's Isfahan city has exploded today, Mehr news agency reported. May 9, WAHOO, Neb. (AP) - A fire in a meat processing plant known for its "Wahoo Wiener" kept firefighters busy for hours and sent a huge plume of smoke over Wahoo. May 9 - The Rock Island County Coroner has released the name of the man killed in an accident at the John Deere Harvester Works plant in East Moline on May 8, 2013. May 9- After a technical snag forced a shutdown at the Bandhwari waste management plant on April 1, a fire incident at the sole municipal solid waste plant on Tuesday hit operations again. May 8, EUFAULA, Okla. (AP) — Two people are hospitalized in Tulsa after an explosion outside a sandblasting plant in Eufaula. May 8, ENFIELD — Two workers at the Eastern Metal Treating plant on Bacon Road sustained injuries Tuesday afternoon after a liquid propane tank exploded, according to fire officials. May 8, MIAMISBURG — A small fire related to an electrical water heater above the ceiling brought fire crews to the Isotec facility on Wednesday afternoon May 8- Around 50,000 tonnes of mixed waste and plastic went up in flames at Sims Metal UK in Long Marston on Tuesday, April 30. May 8- A contractor was killed on a BHP Billiton location in the Eagle Ford shale in south Texas on Monday, the Australian mining conglomerate said. May 7, DHAHRAN — One person has been killed in a gas leakage accident in Saudi Aramco’s Jeddah refinery, reported Saudi Press Agency on Monday. May 7- WORKERS were evacuated from a factory after a tank became overheated. May 7, ELKHART – An Elkhart business was evacuated on Tuesday after a report of a tank on fire at the plant. May 7- With images of a deadly explosion in West still fresh in their minds, Breckenridge residents watched as dark smoke billowed following a mild explosion at a chemical plant south of town Monday. May 7, EUFAULA, Okla. – An explosion evacuated two schools in Eufaula Tuesday. May 7- A Y-12 worker received chemical burns to his face and eyelids while checking a problem with a system in the nuclear weapons plant’s Beta-2 facility. May 7- The UK North Sea Brent pipeline system may have to close briefly during repairs to the legs of the Cormorant Alpha platform, Abu Dhabi National Energy Company (Taqa) said on May 6. May 7- An accident caused by a gas leak in Saudi Aramco's 100,000 barrels per day (bpd) Jeddah refinery killed one worker, the company has said. May 6- NORTH LAS VEGAS -- A two-alarm fire damaged a glass recycling plant in North Las Vegas early Sunday afternoon. May 4- An Oregon automotive materials factory was evacuated for several hours today when insulation caught fire in a machine that produces it. May 3, MONTPELIER, Iowa — The Muscatine County sheriff's office says there was an explosion at a power plant near Montpelier. May 3- LONDON -- Shell said it had put out a fire caused by a "tube burst" at its Netherlands refinery. May 3, SAN JOSE -- Stubbornly smoldering piles of paper and cardboard at a recycling plant threatened to keep firefighters camped overnight at the site next to Municipal Stadium, ... May 3, WRENS, Ga. — Firefighters from two stations responded Thursday to a small fire at Glit/Microtron in Wrens. May 3, LAWRENCEBURG — A large pile of shredded glass and vinyl caught fire Friday afternoon at Dlubak Glass Co., a company that crushes broken automobile windshields for recycling. May 3- WGXA has learned that a metal fabrications plant in Byron damaged by fire Thursday night has received previous violations and fines over fire-related issues. May 3--An early morning blaze at an Orlando Mitsubishi plant has been extinguished, according to Orange County Fire Rescue. May 3, POINT COMFORT, Texas — A fire at a South Texas petrochemical plant has left 14 workers hurt — including two critically — and the ethylene purification area shut down. May 3, NEW YORK, - Two crude oil storage tanks were on fire Friday at a Denbury Resources Inc facility in Denham Springs, Louisiana, after an explosion in one of the tanks on Thursday night, according to company, state and parish officials. May 2- Five people are injured after a fire and explosion at an automotive plant in Ontario. May 2, ATLANTA (AP) — Employee errors led to an explosion that rocked Plant Bowen in northwest Georgia, according to a Georgia Power official. May 2- The level of imports was estimated at 140.000b/p/d in April which is three times the average of its purchases in the US during last year. May 2- Royal Dutch Shell PLC (RDSB) Thursday said it had put out a fire caused by a "tube burst" at its Netherlands refinery. May 2- Officials say an unknown chemical spilled at plant in suburban Philadelphia, prompting employees to be evacuated. No injuries are being reported. May 2, CORPUS CHRISTI — A fire broke out at Broadway Wastewater Treatment plant in the 1400 block of Upper Broadway Street Thursday morning. May 2, SALT LAKE CITY — A two-alarm fire at a Deseret Industries Manufacturing plant Thursday morning created a lot of smoke but did not result in any injuries. May 1- One person was injured when fire engulfed a chemical factory at Boisar’s Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation (MIDC) area following an explosion in a chemical reactor on Tuesday. May 1, BRANCHBURG — A fire and a small explosion in a laboratory yielded at least the third hazmat response in as many years to a township chemical plant, officials said Wednesday morning. May 1- WORKERS at the Caltex oil refinery at Lytton, in Brisbane's east, have returned to the site after a fire caused by a gas leak prompted an evacuation earlier today. May 1- PHOENIX (CBS5) - Phoenix firefighters had their hands full with an intense fire at a paper recycling plant about noon Tuesday. May 1- ORLEANS, Vt. - Fire crews battled a blaze at one of the largest employers in the Northeast Kingdom Tuesday night. May 1- Exxon Mobil Corp's near 70-year-old Pegasus oil pipeline leaked a small amount of crude into a residential yard in Ripley County, Missouri on Tuesday, a month after the same pipe spewed thousands of barrels of crude in Arkansas. May 1 - EYEWITNESSES have described a huge fire that erupted at Sims Metal Recycling Plant in Long Marston, on the Warwicskhire Worcestershire border, on Tuesday night as looking like "a nuclear bomb". May 1- Hatsun Agro Product Ltd has informed BSE that there was a fire accident at the Company's Salem Plant on May 01, 2013 night. Apr 30- US-based oil refining, marketing, and pipeline transport company Marathon Petroleum has reported that the fire at its Detroit crude oil refinery has been put off. Apr 29, COLDWATER — A Fire broke out shortly after 1 p.m. Friday at Coldwater Veneer Products on Race Street in a pit full of wood scrap. Apr 29, ELGIN — Investigators are trying to determine what caused a fire “of suspicious origin” at a west-side Elgin industrial plant Sunday night. Apr 29- A wood pellet plant in Clarendon has shut down temporarily following a fire that was set off by an explosion in a sawdust hopper. Apr 29, MELVINDALE — An explosion so violent that houses more than a half-mile away were rocked by the vibrations started off what could have been a harrowing night for first responders. Apr 29- The Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA), Norway's oil safety watchdog, said BP must review the way it handles risk and maintenance at its offshore oil platforms in Norwegian waters following a leak at a North Sea platform last year that the PSA said could have caused a major accident. Apr 29- Eight workers suffered injuries in a fire that broke out early Saturday morning at the Chevron Phillips Chemical Co. plant in Port Arthur, Texas, Port Arthur News reported. Apr 28, California - Chevron has resumed operations in a unit at its refinery in California's Bay Area that was shut down after a massive fire last year. Apr 27- A fire in a Washdyke manufacturing plant caused more than $500,000 in damage to the facility, and officials are still unsure exactly what caused it. Apr 27, PORT ARTHUR, Texas – Several workers were injured after a fire broke out early Saturday morning at the Chevron Phillips’ chemical plant in Port Arthur, company officials said. Apr 27- A fire broke out at a chemical plant in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, but so far no casualties have been reported. Apr 26- Three workers at a Shell Canada refinery in Sarnia, Ontario were sent to hospital Friday morning following a hydrogen sulphide exposure at the facility. Apr 25, SHAKOPEE, Minn. - The city of Shakopee is sounding the all-clear after a biomass plant explosion south of Minneapolis, but fire crews will remain on scene into the night cooling the silos where the explosions happened.
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