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Contract Worker Charged in BASF Blast

26.04.2018 - The state prosecutor’s office in Frankenthal, Germany, has charged an unidentified contract worker with causing the deadly fire and explosion at BASF’s Ludwigshafen site in October...

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BASF Says no Fault Obvious in Ludwigshafen Blast

12.04.2017 - BASF sees itself vindicated by the results of one of preliminary investigations into a deadly accident that killed four people at its Ludwigshafen headquarters last autumn and...

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BASF Addresses Questions of Ludwigshafen Blast

28.10.2016 - Ten days after the deadly explosion that rocked its Ludwigshafen, Germany, headquarters site on Oct.17, BASF executives held a press briefing on the current state of play. As of...

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BASF Deals With Aftermath of Deadly Blast

20.10.2016 - Two days after the explosion that killed three people at BASF’s main production site in Ludwigshafen, Germany, neither a suspected cause had been officially determined nor the...

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Two Dead in BASF Ludwigshafen Blast

18.10.2016 - At least two workers were killed, six others seriously injured and another two declared missing following a powerful explosion and fire that broke out during the late morning of...

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Moscow Airport Workers Plead Guilty in Total CEO's Death

04.08.2016 - Two workers at Moscow’s Vnukovo airport have told a Russian court they bear responsibility for the death of former Total chairman and CEO Christophe de Margerie in an October 2014...

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Leaky Valve Suspected in DuPont Fatal Accident

19.11.2014 - A leaky valve in the methyl mercaptan production tract of DuPont's La Porte may have been at least partly to blame for the accident that killed four workers and injured a fifth on...

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Accident at DuPont Texas Plant Kills Four

17.11.2014 - Four workers employed by DuPont were killed and one was injured in the early morning hours of Nov.15 during a leak methyl mercaptan at a production facility of the US chemical...