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A chemical gas leak from a rail tanker in Whitewater Township, Ohio, prompted fears of an explosion and evacuation orders for people within at least a half-mile radius of the incident.
Officials said the initial call related to the chemical leak went out at 12:46 p.m. Tuesday and a spokesperson for Central Railroad of Indiana was notified around 1 p.m. that the railcar was ...
April 17, 2017 – A severed flow line, from a gas well, leads to a gas explosion in a home, killing 2 people, in Firestone, Colorado. [32] [33] May 8, 2017 – Fire broke out at a tank for a fracking well near Greeley. [34] May 25, 2017 – An oil tank explosion and fire in northern Colorado killed a worker, and burned three others. [35]
The gas later exploded, damaging the school and injuring six. Classes were not in session at that time. [80] July – Excavation work in Merrill, Wisconsin caused a gas leak and gas explosion that killed ten people. [81] October 5 – A ditching machine used in laying a water main hit an 8-inch natural gas pipeline in Sarasota, Florida. Nine ...
Since 2010, incidents like fires and explosions caused by natural gas leaks have occurred every 40 hours on average in the United States, according to the Public Interest Research Group.
May 5 – A leak occurred in a relief line, at a Keystone Pipeline Terminal in Beaumont, Texas. About 18,500 gallons of crude oil were spilled. The cause seemed to be internal corrosion. [5] July 28 – A gas line explosion and fire occurred in Martin County, Texas, which injured four workers. A ditching truck hit an existing high-pressure gas ...
The order came a day after Dominion Energy crews had to fix a gas leak and restore service to everyone in the Woodcreek neighborhood after a line was cut at Stoneridge Drive and the area was ...
August – A gas explosion shook Boston's South End after new machinery ignited a gas leak in the one-story brick engine house of the Boston Consolidated Gas Company, where natural gas was pumped to three huge reservoirs holding 2,000,000 cubic feet of gas. The engineer, knowing the fire could spread to the reservoirs, ignored his burning ...