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An 8-day long fire then consumed at least 45 acres of storage tanks and damaged nearby homes and businesses. In addition to a boy killed in his home, one Standard Oil workman died of a heart attack, another 40 were injured, and 1,500 evacuated. [49] On Nov 23, 1957, 2 workers were killed in a Whiting Standard of Indiana refinery fire. [49]
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 ...
1984 Romeoville petroleum refinery disaster; 1990 ARCO explosion; 1990 Interstate 75 fog disaster; 2010 Tesoro Anacortes Refinery disaster; 2018 Husky Energy Refinery explosion; 2019 Philadelphia refinery explosion; 2023 LaSalle chemical plant fire; 2023 Texas dairy farm explosion
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 ...
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.
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 fire at a Louisiana chemical plant triggered explosions that shook homes several miles away and sent flames and smoke billowing into the air, prompting emergency officials to urge a few hundred ...
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.