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The aftermath of a boiler explosion at Strømmen station near Oslo, Norway, 22 December 1888. [1] One locomotive was thrown into the air and landed on the roof of another; the crews of both escaped without injury [2] A boiler explosion is a catastrophic failure of a boiler. There are two types of boiler explosions.
4 July 1839: Locomotive United States: 14th Street, New York City, New York: 2: 5 [14] Surprise: 10 November 1840: Locomotive United Kingdom: Bromsgrove railway station, Bromsgrove, England: 2 [15] [2] SS Henry Eckford: 27 April 1841: Marine (civilian) United States: New York City, New York: 1: 2: Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Richmond: 2 ...
Boiler explosion * List of boiler explosions ... at 10:24 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may ...
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 ...
Morogoro tanker explosion: 4 September 2019 India: Gurdaspur: 23 13 Explosion at a fireworks factory. [90] 20 November 2019 Italy: Messina, Sicily: 5 2 An explosion occurred at a fireworks factory due to an interaction between welding equipment and gunpowder. [91] 3 December 2019 Sudan: Khartoum: 23 45 A tanker exploded at a factory. [92] 4 ...
When the fourth floor was added, the original boiler was replaced by a larger one and the old boiler, 17 feet (5.2 m) long and six feet (1.8 m) in diameter, was left in place as a backup. Since the new boiler could generally meet the factory's demands on its own, the old one was seldom used; and when used, was used reluctantly.
At 13:30 IST on 23 May 2024, four boilers exploded at the Amber Chemical Factory at Dombivili, a suburb of Thane. The factory was involved in the production of food coloring and other chemicals. The fire spread to nearby factories and buildings, before being extinguished.
An explosion is a rapid expansion in volume of a given amount of matter associated with an extreme outward release of energy, usually with the generation of high temperatures and release of high-pressure gases. Explosions may also be generated by a slower expansion that would normally not be forceful, but is not allowed to expand, so that when ...