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Texas Rescue Workers Sue Arkema

11.09.2017 - Seven rescue workers in Texas are suing Arkema for $1 million, alleging the French chemical producer was unprepared for the flooding that engulfed its organic peroxides plant at...

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Four Seriously Injured in ExxonMobil Fire

28.11.2016 - As a spate of autumn accidents at chemical plants continues, ExxonMobil’s oil refinery at Baton Rouge, Louisiana, was hit last week by a major fire. Four workers – at least two of...

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No injuries at Fire in Chempark Leverkusen

14.11.2016 - The second major fire at a German chemical production site in less than a month broke out at the ChemPark chemical industry park at Leverkusen on the evening of Nov. 12. However...

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Texas Fertilizer Plant Fire Deliberately Set

12.05.2016 - The US Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) is offering a reward of up to $50,000 for information leading to the arrest of persons or persons who deliberately...

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Fires Strike Two Texas Refineries

11.04.2016 - Two fires that broke out at the respective refineries of LyondellBasell and ExxonMobil in the Houston, Texas, area on Apr. 7 and 8 are believed to have caused extensive damage, but...

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Fracking Chemicals Burn at Lubrizol in US

20.11.2015 - A fire at a Lubrizol plant in Leetsdale Industrial Park near Pittsburgh, Pennylvania, in the US on Nov. 17 injured one worker and prompted a hazmat response by local firefighters...

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Shell’s Moerdijk Cracker Still Down After Blaze

17.11.2015 - Shell’s cracker at Moerdijk in the Netherlands remains off line following a small compressor fire in a compressor on Nov. 11. The oil and petrochemical group so far has not...

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Chemelot Site Hit by Another Blaze

12.11.2015 - A fire at the Chemelot industrial park operated by Dutch chemical producer DSM on Nov. 9 destroyed a storage facility for plastics resins. No injuries were reported, and estimates...