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THE FORD MOTOR CO. RIVER ROUGE PLANT BOILER EXPLOSION:
On Monday February 1st 1999 a massive power plant explosion at the Ford River Rouge plant left
six workers dead & at least 23 people critically injured. The explosion sent a fireball a quarter mile into the sky & the ensuing fire took more than three hours to bring under control. The explosion hit with such intensity that it blew the clothing off employees inside and rocked several other buildings around the complex.
The
River Rouge explosion & investigation homepage
Scene
of the blast
An
incident report
MALDEN TEXTILE MILL BOILER EXPLOSION METHUEN, MA - A massive boiler explosion rocked the Malden Mills textile complex in Methuen, MA in December 1996 leaving at least 30 people injured, 13 critically. The ensuing fire engulfed and destroyed most of the historic
complex ...more
THE ESSO LONGFORD DISASTER - On the 25th September 1998 an explosion & fire at the Esso Longford gas supply facility in Australia resulted in 2 deaths & 8 serious injuries. The state of Victoria was left without gas for several weeks at a cost of millions of dollars to the economy.
Conclusions
of the Royal Commission of Enquiry
ABC
news report
THE
PIPER ALPHA OIL PLATFORM DISASTER - A
massive explosion & huge fire engulfed the PIPER ALPHA oil platform
in the North Sea on the night of 6th July 1988. There were 229 men
aboard & in this, the World's worst oil rig disaster, 167 men died
as a result of serious deficiencies in the plant isolation procedures ...more
COODE
ISLAND, MELBOURNE CHEMICAL LEAK, FIRE & EXPLOSION: At 2.15 pm on the afternoon of 21st August, 1991, a tank exploded at Coode island, followed shortly afterwards by another two tanks. A massive chemical incident erupted, after a 600,000 litre chemical storage tank full of acrylonitrile exploded. The fire was brought under control about 5 p.m. that day. However, the next day at 11.45 a.m. it re-ignited and was not brought under control until 4
p.m ...more
POWER
UTILITIES ACCIDENTS ...more
Brief
news reports of incidents in electric power utilities... updated
regularly.
CATALOG
OF BOILER INCIDENT REPORTS ...more
Statistics
on all reported boiler incidents in the USA dating from 1992.
FLIXBOROUGH
(NYPRO UK) VAPOR EXPLOSION 1st June 1974: At about 16:53 hours on Saturday 1 June 1974 the Nypro (UK) site at Flixborough was severely damaged by a large explosion. Twenty-eight workers were killed and a further 36 suffered
injuries
...more
MEXICO
CITY PEMEX LPG TERMINAL EXPLOSION 1984: At approximately 05:35 hours on 19 November 1984 a major fire and a series of catastrophic explosions occurred at the government owned and operated PEMEX LPG Terminal at San Juan Ixhuatepec, Mexico City. As a consequence of these events some 500 individuals were killed and the terminal
destroyed
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THE CHERNOBYL NUCLEAR DISASTER - The explosion in the #4 reactor at Chernobyl nuclear power station was undoubtedly the World’s greatest nuclear accident. Only
5% of the reactor core escaped but it was enough to kill those near it & damage food & crops
as far away as Northern England. An almost unbelievable litany of operatational errors
culminating in a simple mistake by an operator early in the nightshift on Saturday 26th April
1986 resulted in catastrophe.
The
Cherbobyl disaster.. a comprehensive reference resource
The
French Nuclear Energy Agency... a comprehensive report
Chernobyl...
a brief but good summary of events
Chernobyl
nuclear accident links
THE
THREE MILE ISLAND NUCLEAR INCIDENT - On March 28, 1979, a series of
malfunctions, mistakes, and misinterpretations led to the worst nuclear
accident the United States has ever seen, and nearly led to the worst of
all possible disasters: total meltdown. In fact, the reactor core
suffered a partial meltdown & came within 30 minutes of an
irreversible meltdown.
The
incident - an overview
The
incident - an overview by Dr Tony Baratta of Penn State University
World
Nuclear Association report
BRITAIN'S
NUCLEAR INCIDENT - THE WINDSCALE FIRE 1957: In October 1957 Britain spread a plume of radioactive contamination into the atmosphere from a nuclear reactor fire at Sellafield.
The
1957 Windscale fire - a brief overview
MASS POISONING – resulting from the backflow of chemically treated boiler water into the potable water makeup system
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