May 01, 2017– On April 20th, 2017 the US Chemical Safety Board released its final report into the August 28, 2016, nitrous oxide explosion at the Airgas manufacturing facility in Cantonment, Florida. The blast killed the only Airgas employee working at the facility that day and heavily damaged the plant, halting its manufacturing of nitrous … Read more
Feb 19, , 2017 Oberhausen, Germany. In a shocking incident at a plant owned by Hamm Chemie, Germany, employees apparently mistakenly unloaded Hydrochloric Acid (HCl) from a tanker into a 600 m3 tank that contained Oleum (97% concentrated Sulfuric Acid or H2SO4). This led to a massive reaction and the resultant vapor cloud caused about … Read more
Feb 06,2017– The U.S. Chemical Safety Board (CSB) released a safety video of its investigation of the June 13, 2013 explosion and fire at the Williams Olefins Plant in Geismar, Louisiana, which killed two workers and injured an additional 167. The deadly explosion and fire occurred when a heat exchanger containing flammable liquid propane violently … Read more
22nd Dec 2016, Washington DC– The US Department of Labor’s Mine Safety and Health Administration has issued a serious accident alert regarding conveyor belts. Plant- Clay A miner was trying to determine why clay was not flowing properly by examining a chute that discharged into a screw conveyor. Instead of using a ladder to look … Read more
Washington, DC, October 24, 2016 – An investigative team from the U.S. Chemical Safety Board (CSB) has deployed to the scene of a chemical release that led to a shelter-in-place order for thousands of residents and at least 85 members of the public seeking medical attention in Atchison, Kansas. The incident was reportedly triggered due … Read more
