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Approximately $2.5 billion of liabilities for BP. The Texas City refinery explosion occurred on March 23, 2005, when a flammable hydrocarbon vapor cloud ignited and violently exploded at the isomerization process unit of the BP oil refinery in Texas City, Texas, killing 15 workers, injuring 180 others and severely damaging the refinery.
Texas City disaster. The 1947 Texas City disaster was an industrial accident that occurred on April 16, 1947, in the port of Texas City, Texas, United States, located in Galveston Bay. It was the deadliest industrial accident in U.S. history and one of history's largest non-nuclear explosions. The explosion was triggered by a mid-morning fire ...
Meerut. Meerut (pronunciation ⓘ; ISO: Mēraṭha) is a city in the western region of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. Located in the Meerut district, the city is 80 km (80,000 m) northeast of the national capital New Delhi, and is 480 km (300 mi) west of the state capital, Lucknow. [8] Meerut is the second-most populous city in the National ...
August 20, 2024 at 1:09 PM. Odessa Fire Rescue responded with multiple units to an aircraft incident in the 6800 block of Alderfer Ave. in Odessa, Texas, on Tuesday. Two people were killed and ...
Globally, there have been at least 99 (civilian and military) recorded nuclear power plant accidents from 1952 to 2009 (defined as incidents that either resulted in the loss of human life or more than US$50,000 of property damage, the amount the US federal government uses to define nuclear energy accidents that must be reported), totaling US$20.5 billion in property damages.
01:48. Four people died and 10 others were injured after a major rollover crash on U.S. Highway 287 in Wise County, Texas, Wednesday morning, the Texas Department of Public Safety said. Officials ...
2006 Meerut fire. On 10 April 2006 at about 17:30 IST (12:00 UTC), a fire swept through a consumer electronics fair (Brand India Fair) in Victoria Park, Meerut, killing 65 people [1] and injuring 150 others. [2] [3] The fire was said to have been caused by a short circuit. An estimated 2,000 people were at the fair when the fire broke out. [4]
A 19-year-old woman was killed in a single-vehicle accident Monday afternoon on Texas 121 in Hurst, officials said. The driver, identified by the Tarrant County Medical Examiner’s Office as ...