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A boiler explosion is a catastrophic failure of a boiler. There are two types of boiler explosions. One type is a failure of the pressure parts of the steam and water sides. There can be many different causes, such as failure of the safety valve, corrosion of critical parts of the boiler, or low water
A burst boiler on Thanksgiving morning is forcing the closure of Murdock Middle/High School all this week.. The water boiler, which was installed when the building was built in the 1990s, exploded ...
New York Telephone Company building explosion: 3 October 1962: Stationary power United States: New York City, New York: 23: 94 [61] PNKA CC 5002 (Bendul Explosion) 11 April 1968 Locomotive Indonesia: Purwakarta, West Java: 6 1 USS Basilone: 5 February 1973: Marine (military) United States: 7: Deutsche Reichsbahn 01 1516: 27 November 1977 ...
One person was killed when a boiler exploded at a southeastern Texas power plant Wednesday morning, according to a spokesperson for Dallas-based Luminant. “A contractor was fatally injured” in ...
Explosion at a bank suspected to have been caused by a gas leak in a sewer. [181] 26 December 2021 India: Muzaffarpur: 6 6 Factory boiler explosion. [182] 7 January 2022 China: Chongqing, Yuzhong District: 16 10 Chongqing explosion – Gas explosion in a housing block which contained a canteen. [183] [184] 13 January 2022 Canada: Southern ...
A small explosion in a basement boiler at a University of Nevada, Reno dormitory triggered a much larger natural gas blast last week that left part of the building looking like an earthquake had ...
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 ...
The Senator explosion, as with the Gazelle 21 years before, was blamed on her engineer's having allowed low water in her boilers, so that when her engines were shut off, steam pressure built up too quickly, causing boiler failure. [9] Low water in the boiler was a situation where flames and hot gases from the firebox were allowed to have direct ...