The NDK America plant, which manufactures crystals used in liquid-crystal displays, exploded in a highly pressurized vessel where the crystals are made. Investigators are still trying to determine what caused the massive explosion. The building where the plant is housed has special exterior panels, which are designed to break away if a explosion occurred. One of these exterior panels, at least several feet long, were launched through the air during the blast and struck a trucker, Ronald Greenfield, 63, of Chesterton, Indiana, who was standing outside his truck.
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Wednesday morning's explosion at American Acryl's Port Road plant sounded like a jet's sonic boom as it hurled a fireball into the sky, rattled windows and cracked walls as far away as Clear Lake and sequestered residents in their homes for hours.
But despite the drama and the open question of the economic impact of the 150 USA dollars million facility's indefinite closure for repair, the human toll appeared small. Two of the 10 to 15 workers on duty at the time of the 8:45 a.m. accident were hospitalized for observation but later released in good condition. American Acryl spokeswoman Kelli Gregory said the explosion resulted in no “off-site toxic impact.”
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One truck driver was killed and another was critically hurt when anhydrous ammonia was released Monday night.
A Rosemount police officer and a Dakota County sheriff’s deputy also were taken to Regions Hospital in St. Paul to be checked out, Rosemount police Sgt. Bryan Burkhalter said. The release happened about 6 p.m. during loading at the CF Industries ammonia terminal at 13040 Pine Bend Trail.
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Fire in refinery depot kills 13, injure around 200 people. Army has been called in to control and rescue the raging fire in IOC refinery in India’s Jaipur city, nicknamed as Pink City. Around a dozen people have lost their lives and scores have been injured, many of them seriously.
Rescue operation is in full swing and many people in adjoining areas where the oil depot is based have left for safer places as so far there is no sign of fires being contained.
Many of the injuries were reported from nearby areas and caused due to the shattering of glass panes, officials said.
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A refinery explosion at the Silver Eagle Refinery, located at 2355 S. 1100 West, damaged several homes in the surrounding area and was felt several miles away from the facility.
The explosion was a result of a line carrying hydrogen and diesel fuel that leaked onto the ground. It ignited, causing the large explosion and resulting fire.
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At least eight people died and 100 others required medical assistance after inhaling chlorine gas that leaked from an overturned tanker near the town of Clarines, 250 kilometers (155 miles) east of Caracas.
The governor of Anzoategui state, Tarek William Saab, said the accident occurred Wednesday night and forced authorities to evacuate nearby homes and cut the flow of the traffic in the area until the gas had completely dispersed.
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Its rugged northern coastline is a favourite summer destination for Britons. But holidaymakers have been warned away from certain beaches in northern Brittany that have been swamped by tonnes of potentially lethal rotting green algae.
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Flames and fear shocked Chamberlain Township just before noon Saturday when a leaking TransCanada pipeline exploded, leaving neighbours running for their telephones and lives. At least three families were immediately affected by the blast that filled the sky with flames seen as far away as Earlton, and what one witness described as "nuclear-like" mushroom clouds of smoke. Fortunately, no injuries were reported.
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At least three persons died and three injured in an explosion at a scrap factory in Jaipur’s Vishwakarma Industrial Area on Sunday afternoon.
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A South Carolina woman driving to work was killed by an ammonia leak from a chemical plant that sent a deadly cloud across a rural highway, authorities said.
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At least 15 people were killed and dozens more injured in northern Italy when two LPG filled railroad tankers exploded after derailing, engulfing nearby homes in flames, firefighters.
The blast in the seaside resort of Viareggio also seriously injured 34 people, about half of whom were said to be in critical condition.
Many victims had suffered extensive burns.
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Emergency crews were on the scene of a propane tanker accident in Chelsea for more than 24 hours. The truck was carrying 2,400 gallons of propane when it slid off the road-- spilling gas into a nearby stream. Officials say about 1,800 gallons of fuel leaked into the waterway. And because the flammable fuel could catch fire-- about 40 homes were evacuated.
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Clean up crews are continuing their work at Delek Refining in Tyler after an explosion at the local petroleum refinery, formerly known as La Gloria, that caused at least four injuries. The cause of the explosion, which happened just before 2:00 pm Thursday, is still being sought. OSHA says that its investigators are en route to Delek, and will take the lead in the investigation.
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Investigators continued to look into the source of an explosion at an oil well that killed two area men just south of Marseilles Sunday afternoon.
Division of State Fire Marshal investigators returned to the scene Monday and determined that welding directly contributed to the ignition of the explosion.
Two contractors were thought to be working on routine maintenance when one of the four oil tanks at the site exploded, killing them both instantly.
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A leak of carbon dioxide from a paint factory in Germany leaves more than 100 injured, thirteen seriously.
Factory workers, six firefighters and local residents were among the injured.
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A storage tank explosion at a northern Wisconsin paper mill Tuesday killed three workers and injured a fourth, the company that owns the mill said.
The company said in a news release that the three workers were fatally injured when a tank used to store recycled fiber exploded while they were performing maintenance on top of it.
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A small amount of oil spilled on Thursday at Royal Dutch Shell's Draugen field in the Norwegian Sea, after a pipe broke when loading oil onto a tanker, but production was unaffected, the group's Norway unit said.
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Part of an industrial estate in Geleen was covered with a quantity of melamine powder on Friday after it blew out of a storage silo for an unknown reason, news agency ANP reports.
Staff from chemicals company DSM and fire officers were busy cleaning up the spillage on Friday afternoon. There is no risk to health or the environment, ANP said.
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An explosion tore through a paper mill Saturday after a boiler was inspected, killing a contract worker and injuring 17 others, the company said.
The explosion occurred as a boiler at the International Paper mill was being started after an annual maintenance shutdown in Redwood, about 30 miles west of Jackson, company spokeswoman Amy J. Sawyer said in a statement.
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Explosions and fires at a chemical plant Wednesday killed four people, injured at least 14 and sent debris flying several stories into the air, fire officials and witnesses said.
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A 1 km exclusion zone remains in place around the site of the blast at Wallerwang near Lithgow in the NSW central west, but at this stage there have been no reports of injuries.
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An explosion in a fireworks factory in central China killed 11 people and injured eight.
The explosion late Wednesday afternoon reduced part of a fireworks workshop on the rural outskirts of a city to rubble, and it was not known whether others were buried in the blast.
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Workers trying to fix a sewer at a landfill pit were overcome by hydrogen sulphide fumes.
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Fire crews tackle refinery blaze
Firefighters say they have put out an oil refinery blaze sparked after an explosion which shook homes up to 14 miles away.
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Two employees on Monday were transferring ethyl acetate, a solvent, from an exterior storage tank to a portable container (square tank called a tote) when the chemical somehow caught on fire at 1315 hours.
The two workers tried to put out the flames with a fire extinguisher. The workers were making some progress but the fire extinguisher became empty before the fire could be extinguished.
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A powerful explosion killed a construction worker and critically injured four others in a hardscrabble town yesterday as it leveled a nearly built home and an abandoned apartment building and sent a hurricane of fiery debris, splintered wood and shattered glass flying for blocks around.
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Emergency services were still looking for 20 people on Sunday after a gas explosion tore through an apartment block in central Ukraine, killing 10 people and injuring 24 others.
Several explosions in succession struck a residential area of a city.
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A fire burned a truck and a tanker truck and sent thick black smoke into the sky for over an hour Monday at a salt water storage plant injuring two people.
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An explosion at a foundry was caused when a propane tanker burst into flames, touching off a series of other blasts.
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Five workers trapped at least 305 meter underground survived an initial chemical fire at a hydroelectric plant, but died before emergency workers could rescue them.
Investigators were trying to determine how they died, and the county coroner's office was working Wednesday to identify the workers and remove their bodies.
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A truck loaded with ammonium nitrate has exploded in Mexico after a traffic accident, creating a huge fireball that killed at least 28 people, including rescue workers and photographers.
People stuck in the traffic jam caused by the accident were also killed in the blast that left a crater 20 meters wide and 3 meters deep near the town of Nadadores in the northern state of Coahuila, witnesses and officials said.
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An Airbus 320 crashed and burst into flames after skidding off a runway at Brazil's busiest airport Tuesday and barreling across a highway, officials said. All 176 people on board were feared dead in what would be Brazil's deadliest air disaster, and at least 15 were killed on the ground.
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Thousands of people filled the streets, running, screaming, crying. A giant cloud rose into the air, as high as the Manhattan skycrapers.
The sirens would not stop blaring.
Everyone thought the same thing: terrorism.
In the end, the blast had nothing to do with terrorism, but rather a ruptured steam pipe that left an enormous gash in the middle of the street.
The explosion left behind a large amount of wreckage.
A city bus was abandoned in the middle of Lexington Avenue, covered with grit. A woman who was bleeding profusely was being helped by police while a man lay on a stretcher in the street.
Soot kept falling from the sky, covering some pedestrians. Others looked wet. The sky was blackened. And people wandered aimlessly, not knowing where to go.
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A freighttrain derailed near Lviv, near the Polish border, and 15 of its 58 cars overturned. Six of the railroad tankers caught fire and smoke from the burning yellow phosphorous spread over 35 square miles. The highly toxic substance, which can catch fire spontaneously on contact with air at temperatures higher than 104 degrees, can cause liver damage.
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The blaze started in one storage tank last Friday morning when lightning from an early morning storm struck the tank, setting the fuel inside on fire. The fire from that tank spread to a nearby tank holding approximately 20,000 barrels of diesel fuel, which eventually ignited, creating a huge fire ball in the night sky.
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Fires and explosions at a chemical plant forced the evacuation of 500 local residents and 1000 schoolchildren and have caused major health concerns in the area. Still facing new explosions on Thursday, local firefighters have not yet been able to get the blaze under control as clouds of thick black smoke continue to pour out of the facility.
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A train derailment ignited an explosion that forced the evacuation of area homes and a school.
The source of the fire was the chemical cyclohexane, a highly flammable chemical and eye and skin irritant.
The chemicals released when 12 of the train cars derailed were cyclohexane, methyl ethyl ketone, butadiene and alcohol.
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One person died and nine others were injured in an explosion at a power plant.
An employee of a supplier, who was delivering hydrogen to the power plant, died after the 0920 hours blast.
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At least 200 people were killed Tuesday when a pipeline carrying petroleum products exploded in Nigeria’s capital, a Red Cross official said. The death toll was expected to rise.
A senior official for the Nigerian Red Cross, said his workers had documented "over 200 and still counting
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An explosion at a chemical plant in Austria killed two contractors and severely injured one.
The ammonia producing plant was being maintained when the explosion happened.
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Police said there were no injuries when the sprawling facility was rocked by the explosion just before 0300 hours and all workers at the plant were accounted for.
The fire is being allowed to burn itself out before authorities enter the affected unit to try to determine the cause of the explosion.
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An explosion that ignited a fire at an industrial warehouse rocked the industrial state this morning, injuring at least 30 injuries and killing 3 workers.
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Two fire crew members have been killed in a major blaze at a fireworks depot in UK.
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A chemical plant outside Boston blew up Wednesday with a roar so thunderous, people thought it was an earthquake or a plane crash.
The explosion destroyed two dozen homes in the tightly packed neighborhood but caused only minor injuries.
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A 27-year-old welder was killed in an explosion Thursday in Dorr Township while working inside a gasoline tanker.
The explosion put a hole through the roof of a trailer repair company and rocked another nearby business.
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MINERVA - Oil and spilled hydraulic fluid caught fire Friday inside the FormTech Industries plant near a press machine.
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Leaking chemicals at a Wichita plant cause a scare in one neighborhood. The chemicals sparked a small fire and firefighters were concerned it could lead to an even bigger fire.
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FOREST HILL -- An explosion at a natural gas well killed one worker Saturday and forced hundreds of residents out of their homes for hours, prompting activists to renew their calls for tighter regulations on drilling near residential areas.
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DAYTON — A maintenance mechanic received second-degree burns to his hands, arm, face and chest after he caught fire inside the Cargill Inc. plant on Monday, according to a Dayton fire official.
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Firefighters have tackled a blaze which began early on Monday at a chemical plant in Mostyn, Flintshire.
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