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On May 4, 1988, a fire followed by several explosions occurred at the Pacific Engineering and Production Company of Nevada (PEPCON) chemical plant in Henderson, Nevada. The disaster caused two fatalities, 372 injuries, and an estimated $100 million of damage. A large portion of the Las Vegas Valley within a 10-mile (16 km) radius of the plant ...
The resulting fuel-air explosion destroyed the plant, killing 28 people and injuring 36 more. Beyond the plant 1,821 houses and 167 shops and factories had suffered to a greater or lesser degree. [64] Fires burned for 16 days. The explosion occurred during a weekend otherwise the casualties would have been much greater.
June 25, 1985: The Aerlex Fireworks plant explosion in Hallett, Oklahoma killed 21 people after a chain-reaction occurred. May 4, 1988: PEPCON disaster, Henderson, Nevada. A massive fire and explosions at a chemical plant killed two people and injured over 300. May 10, 1993: Kader Toy Factory fire. A fire started in a poorly built factory in ...
A big explosion triggered a fire in a pharmaceutical plant in southern India, killing at least 15 workers, police said Thursday. An additonal 40 people were injured in the blast and the fire in ...
An explosion at the plant was reported between 9:45 p.m. and 10 p.m. Sunday, McClellan said. At the scene, firefighters learned “a chemical tank inside of the building was on fire at the time ...
July 11, 2022 at 7:07 PM. OSHA has begun its investigation into the explosion and fire that injured two workers at a chemical plant in East St. Louis on Sunday, and the Illinois EPA plans to begin ...
The Nevada National Security Sites ( N2S2[ 1] or NNSS ), popularized as the Nevada Test Site ( NTS) until 2010, [ 2] is a reservation of the United States Department of Energy located in the southeastern portion of Nye County, Nevada, about 65 mi (105 km) northwest of the city of Las Vegas. Formerly known as the Nevada Proving Grounds of the ...
Sequence of the disaster. On 26 September 2019, the Lubrizol chemical products plant and warehouses of Normandie Logistique in Rouen caught fire; the plant synthesizes and stores chemical products ( phosphorus and organosulfur compounds) intended for use as lubricant additives. [ 1] Because of the toxic nature of the chemicals it produces, the ...