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BioLab Inc. is a division of KiK Consumer Products that specializes in the manufacturing of chemicals for use in swimming pools. The company has faced ongoing scrutiny regarding its problematic safety record, most recently following a fire at its Conyers, Georgia plant which put 90,000 citizens of the region under shelter-in-place restrictions.
OSHA arrived within two hours and the CSB within forty-eight hours. [18] Other brief investigations were conducted by state firefighters and police and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF), but these were ended quickly after confirming there was no evidence of the explosion and fire having been deliberately started. [16]
The fire grew out of control for several hours, requiring 100 fire-fighters to help contain the blaze. One pipeline employee was injured. [3] January 24 – A leaking 2-inch natural gas main exploded in Houma, Louisiana, killing two gas company workers, one firefighter, injuring 28 others, and demolishing half a block of downtown buildings. The ...
Shelter-in-place recommendations and evacuation orders have been lifted Monday after a fire at a Georgia industrial plant caused a chemical reaction that prompted around 17,000 people to evacuate ...
The Thiokol-Woodbine explosion occurred at 10:53 a.m. EDT on Wednesday, February 3, 1971, at the Thiokol chemical plant, 12 miles (19 km) southeast of Woodbine, Georgia, and 30 miles (48 km) north of Jacksonville, Florida, when large quantities of flares and their components in building M-132 were ignited by a fire and detonation occurred.
Houston County (/ ˈ h aʊ s t ən / HOW-stən) is a county located in the central portion of the U.S. state of Georgia.The population was 163,633 at the 2020 census. [1] Its county seat is Perry; the city of Warner Robins is substantially larger in both area and population.
Georgia officials are dealing with the aftermath of a chemical fire at a swimming pool cleaning facility near Atlanta. The fire, that ignited on Sunday around 5 a.m., started on the roof of a ...
[2] Name on the Register Image Date listed [3] Location City or town Description 1: Davis-Felton Plantation: Davis-Felton Plantation: November 13, 1979 (NW of Henderson on Felton Rd.