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December 1 – In Winchester, Massachusetts, a lighted match dropped into a sewer manhole by an employee of the Arlington gaslight company set off an explosion which injured five gas line repairmen and blew the steel manhole cover 30 feet into the air. The gas ignited along the sewer line into Rangeley, where two more manhole covers were blown ...
[2] [7] [14] Manhole covers shot up into the sky and came crashing down with great destructive force. [14] [15] [16] One manhole cover crashed completely through the ceiling and floor of a third-floor apartment on Second Street, and another narrowly missed a child when it landed in a house at the corner of 9th and Hill streets. [15]
The operation consisted of 29 explosions, of which only two did not produce any nuclear yield.Twenty-one laboratories and government agencies were involved. While most Operation Plumbbob tests contributed to the development of warheads for intercontinental and intermediate range missiles, they also tested air defense and anti-submarine warheads with smaller yields.
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This is the bizarre moment manhole covers were captured bouncing up and down on a road in northwestern China. In the video, shot in the city of Shangluo in Shaanxi Province on August 1, a couple ...
A round manhole and its cover. A manhole cover is a removable plate forming the lid over the opening of a manhole, an opening large enough for a person to pass through that is used as an access point for an underground vault or pipe. It is designed to prevent anyone or anything from falling in, and to keep out unauthorized persons and material.
June 8, 2018 - A tank battery fire broke out in Pecos. [199] June 30, 2018 - A fire was reported at a tank battery, in Glasscock County. [200] July 10, 2018 - A tank battery caught fire in Jones County. [201] July 18, 2018 - An oilfield worker was killed, and another was injured, after a tank battery caught fire off of U.S. Refinery Road near ...
A sanitary manhole under construction. A sanitary manhole (sewer manhole, [1] sanitary sewer manhole [2] or sewer maintenance hole [3]) is a manhole that is used as an access point for maintenance and inspection of an underground sanitary sewer system. Sanitary manholes are sometimes used as vents to prevent the buildup of pressurized sewage ...