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Map of area affected by the explosion Site plan The incident started at approximately 1:05 PM local time on October 23, 1989, at 1400 Jefferson Road, Pasadena, Texas . A powerful and devastating explosion and fire ripped through the HCC, killing 23 people—all working at the facility—and injuring 314 others (185 Phillips Petroleum Company ...
Pemex Deer Park is an oil refinery located in Deer Park, Texas on the Houston Ship Channel in the Greater Houston area. It is owned and operated by Pemex . As of December 2017, the plant is the fourth-largest taxpayer [ 1 ] and the tenth largest employer [ 2 ] in Harris County .
Yanwath, 1867 railway explosion when a freight train carrying 3 tons of gunpowder derailed and another freight train hit the wreckage. Regent's Park explosion, in 1874 a barge carrying 5 tons of gunpowder blew up on the Regent's Canal in London; USS Maine, in Havana harbor in 1898 (origin of explosion is disputed)
Shell says the fire poses no threat to the local community
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.
A house exploded and caught fire on Yancey Street in Tallahassee's Levy Park neighborhood early Sunday morning, resulting in one death and rattling windows blocks away, police and neighbors said.
Shell Deer Park Refinery 20 miles east of Houston, was the nation's eighth-largest oil refinery and one of the world's largest petrochemical producers. The facility was also the second-largest source of air pollution in Harris County , which ranked among the lowest in the nation in several measures of air quality. [ 28 ]
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