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SLEEPY EYE, Minn. — An industrial mishap in a chemical plant in this small rural community left a man with life-threatening burns after 1,000 gallons of high-pressure 200-degree water scalded him.
Most chemical accidents never make national headline news. American chemical industry public relations professionals claim that such accidents are becoming less frequent but the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency states that they are increasing in frequency, with higher average annual rates of population evacuations and of people needing ...
An explosion and large fire was reported at a chemical plant in the La Canonja municipality of Tarragona, Spain, on January 14.Catalonia’s civil defense agency said the explosion was likely ...
An explosion has triggered a large fire at a chemical plant in Shepherd, Texas, sending massive plumes of black smoke into the sky. ... Officials said in a news briefing at 1 p.m. local time that ...
Fourteen people were hospitalized for chemical exposure or their injuries after the blast. [2] The company laid off workers and shut down in the following months. [8] In September 2009, a report was released by the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board as to the cause of the accident. [5]
The 2023 Delaware River chemical spill was a failure of equipment that occurred on March 24, 2023 at the Trinseo Altuglas chemical plant in Bristol, Pennsylvania in the United States, which resulted in a leak of between 8,100 and 12,000 gallons of butyl acetate, ethyl acetate, and methyl methacrylate into Otter Creek, a tributary of the Delaware River.
L&I said chemical exposure was the cause of death for 15 people who worked for Department of Energy and its contractors. There were no chemical exposure deaths reported last year.
The Visakhapatnam gas leak, also referred to as the Vizag gas leak, was an industrial accident that occurred at the LG Polymers chemical plant in the R. R. Venkatapuram village of the Gopalapatnam neighbourhood, located at the outskirts of Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India, during the early morning of 7 May 2020.