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In the last full fiscal year before the disaster, which ended on September 30, 2007, the facility refined 14.51 million hundredweight (658,163 tonnes) of sugar, 9% of the nation's requirements, compared to Imperial's Gramercy, Louisiana, refinery, which refined 11.08 million hundredweight (502,580 tonnes) of sugar in the same time period. 90% ...
2009 ConAgra Foods plant explosion; D. Dublin whiskey fire; G. 2008 Georgia Imperial Sugar refinery explosion; ... Category: Food processing disasters.
Seventy-five people were killed at a hydroelectric power station when a turbine failed. The failed turbine had been vibrating for a considerable time. Emergency doors to stop the incoming water took a long time to close, while a self-closing lock would have stopped the water in minutes. February 7, 2010: 2010 Connecticut power plant explosion.
It also comes less than a year after the government fined another sanitation services provider $1.5 million for employing more than 100 kids — ages 13 to 17 — at 13 meat processing plants in ...
[4] [2] Emergency responders calculated the ammonia levels at 20 parts per million outside the plant. [2] It also set small fires around the facility grounds. [7] Over 200 workers were inside the plant at the time of the explosion. [6] One member of ConAgra's safety team ran back into the plant to rescue a co-worker and was killed by falling ...
By comparison, the three Foster Poultry Farms plants in the Valley had lower self-reported injury rates, at 23.9 injuries per 100 employees at the Livingston plant; 20 injuries per 100 employees ...
There were about 300 food recalls in 2024, associated with nearly 1,400 illnesses, according to a report published last week by the Public Interest Research Group, a nonprofit focused on consumer ...
On September 3, 1991, an industrial fire caused by a failed improvised repair to a hydraulic line destroyed the Imperial Food Products chicken processing plant in Hamlet, North Carolina. Despite three previous fires in 11 years of operation, the plant had never received a safety inspection. The fire killed 25 people and injured 54, many of whom ...