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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
A BLEVE–fireball at the Philadelphia Energy Solutions refinery, as rendered by the CSB. A boiling liquid expanding vapor explosion (BLEVE, / ˈ b l ɛ v iː / BLEV-ee) is an explosion caused by the rupture of a vessel containing a pressurized liquid that is or has reached a temperature sufficiently higher than its boiling point at atmospheric pressure.
Jul. 22—The June explosion which killed a contractor and destroyed a 1.5 million gallon water tank happened after a critical safety-check was not performed before welding started, according to a ...
Oct. 22—State and federal law enforcement agencies are investigating the motive behind a "very large homemade explosives laboratory" discovered Sunday inside a Hartshorne area residence.
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 Ottawa, Ontario: 6 2 Explosion and fire on Block 1900, Merivale Road, at Eastway Tank, Pump and Meter Ltd. [185] [186] 20 ...
February 21, 1978 - An explosion & fire at a Rialto pipeline tank farm injured a passerby. [13] February 9, 1980 - A tank farm fire in Kern County. [14] April 10, 1989 – An explosion and fire occurred in a cracking column at the Chevron Richmond refinery. A total of 8 workers and firefighters were injured.