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The fire began shortly before 7:00 a.m. on June 14, 2021, when contractors were performing insulation replacement on an elevated heat transfer piping network at the Chemtool plant in Rockton. [11] According to an investigation, the most likely explanation for the cause of the fire was that a scissor lift being used struck a valve, allowing ...
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Oil tank burning after the 2012 Amuay refinery explosion. Oil leak and subsequent fire at the Standard Oil refinery in Bayonne, New Jersey in 1930. An industrial fire is a type of industrial disaster involving a conflagration which occurs in an industrial setting. Industrial fires often, but not always, occur together with explosions.
A massive fire erupted following a chemical leak at a Marathon Petroleum Corporation refinery in Louisiana. Marathon personnel and fire authorities responded to the scene of a naphtha spill and ...
Rockton homeowners and renters who lived within 3 miles of the 2021 Chemtool industrial fire plan to settle with the company for $94.5 million. Class action suit in 2021 chemical plant explosion ...
Neighbors who lived within a 3-mile radius of the June 14, 2021, Chemtool industrial fire in Rockton have reached a $94.5 million preliminary settlement with the company.
On April 26, 2018, an explosion and subsequent fire occurred at the Husky Energy Oil Refinery in Superior, Wisconsin.An initial explosion was reported at 10:00 AM and was extinguished close to noon, however a piece of debris had hit a storage tank containing asphalt, which ignited after spilling across the refinery, sending a thick plume of black smoke into the air.
Ruptured elbow pipe from Philadelphia Energy Solutions refinery, determined to be the root cause to the refinery's fire and explosions in June 2019. The U.S. Chemical Safety Board released its final report on the incident on October 11, 2022. [1] The report stated that a corroded elbow pipe, installed in 1973, ruptured and caused the initial leak.