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April 4 – An LPG pipeline exploded at a Terminal in Iowa City, Iowa. Due to the fire spreading to a pipeline for nearby underground gas storage, residents within a 2 + 1 ⁄ 2-mile radius of the Terminal were evacuated for a time. The fire burned until April 20. The cause was an ERW seam failure in a pipeline. During a hydrostatic test of ...
February 28 – A front loader ruptured a gas pipeline in Fort Worth, Texas, seriously burning the loader operator. [127] May 12 – A bulldozer hit and broke a valve on an LPG pipeline near Demopolis, Alabama while grading land. The resulting fire caused fears of flames spreading to an underground storage facility, but the fire was later ...
June 8, 2018 - A tank battery fire broke out in Pecos. [199] June 30, 2018 - A fire was reported at a tank battery, in Glasscock County. [200] July 10, 2018 - A tank battery caught fire in Jones County. [201] July 18, 2018 - An oilfield worker was killed, and another was injured, after a tank battery caught fire off of U.S. Refinery Road near ...
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The fire, which began in a tank and involved several explosions that sent a huge fireball into the sky, engulfing the surrounding areas in smoke early on Friday morning, was extinguished Saturday ...
BLEVE–fireball, 2008 Toronto propane explosion The following is a list of boiling liquid expanding vapor explosion (BLEVE) accidents. It shows whether the accident occurred during dangerous goods transportation or at a fixed facility, the accident origin (e.g., storage, process reactor, rail tank car, tank truck), the material involved, its amount, the number of fatalities, and whether a ...
A massive fire at a south Louisiana oil refinery sent a tower of black smoke billowing into the air above the Mississippi River on Friday, forcing nearby residents to evacuate for several hours as ...
August 24 – 2012 Venezuela Refinery Explosion. An explosion and fire at the Paraguaná Refinery Complex killed 48 and injured 151. September 11 – 2012 Pakistan garment factory fires. A fire in a Karachi garment factory killed at least 312 workers. [246] [247] September 11 – 2012 Pakistan garment factory fires. A fire in a Lahore shoe ...