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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
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May – Three teachers and a plumber were injured by a gas explosion at Saint Michael's Roman Catholic Church parish school in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. [4]October – In Boston, Massachusetts, five women narrowly escaped being burned alive after a leaking gas meter exploded in the basement of their three-story tenement, starting a fire that ascended through the stairwells and drove them out ...
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 ...
January 31 – In Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, a natural gas explosion killed five and injured at least 18; others were missing in the rubble of the 20 buildings wrecked. A week before the explosion, residents of the area had been threatening legal action against the Fuel Gas company due to the persistent leakage from the gas mains. [45]
July 4 – A gas main explosion set off an apartment house fire in Long Beach, California, burning two persons. Two others who jumped from windows also were injured. The explosion, which occurred after 8:30 p.m., ripped a 40-foot hole in the street and sent flames into the fifteen-unit structure. [69]
The gas service line to the house had been damaged 37 days earlier when a contractor's backhoe pulled up the line during conduit excavation work for the local telephone company. [52] July 27 – An explosion & fire occurred at a Koch Industries propane pipeline pumping station, near Harper, Kansas. Power was knocked out in the area for a time. [53]
Boiler explosion * List of boiler explosions; G. Grover Shoe Factory disaster; M. Morewood Lake Ice Company explosion; N. New York Telephone Company building explosion;