January 24, 2020
Two people were killed and another was injured after an early morning explosion at Watson Grinding and Manufacturing in Houston. The explosion involved a 2,000-gallon tank of propylene, an extremely flammable gas, which has since been secured by a HazMat…
January 13, 2020
In its final report about the fatal explosions at Midland Resource Recovery, the Chemical Safety Board (CSB) said training in reactive chemical hazards is lacking and that companies need better safety procedures when using them. The federal agency issued its…
January 8, 2020
Explosion lawyers at Pritzker Hageman have filed a lawsuit on behalf of the family of three people who died in a Wolfe County, KY house explosion. The suit, filed in Wolfe Circuit Court in Kentucky, alleges that Troublesome Creek Gas…
January 6, 2020
Natural gas was the source of a January 4 Detroit house explosion that sent six people to the hospital for treatment of burns and smoke inhalation, fire investigators said. Fire crews dug through the rubble of the home to rescue…
December 23, 2019
A house explosion in Parma Heights, OH killed one person on Saturday. At about 1:15 P.M., crews responded to reports of a house explosion on the 6300-block of Malmo Place. The blast completely leveled the house. Authorities found a body…
November 13, 2019
A propane explosion in Charles Town, WV on November 11, 2019, injured two people who have been hospitalized. The owners of the home in the Cloverdale neighborhood told local media that they had been experiencing problems with the propane heating…
November 1, 2019
A propane leak is the suspected source of a house explosion in Wagner, SD that killed two people on October 30. Yankton Sioux Reservation police told local media that a mother and her young child were killed in the blast…
September 16, 2019
One person is dead and six others are injured after a propane explosion at the Farmington, ME headquarters of LEAP Inc., a nonprofit organization for people with cognitive disabilities. The blast occurred around 8:30 this morning after firefighters arrived in…
September 11, 2019
One month after an Enbridge pipeline exploded in Lincoln County, KY, killing one person and hospitalizing five others, officials have begun an investigation of the impact to public health. A team from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)…
August 28, 2019
Nearly two years after a deadly gas explosion rocked their community, Minnehaha Academy students and staff went back to school at a newly constructed upper campus last week. The 2017 blast demolished the main building of the school’s upper campus,…
August 16, 2019
A propane explosion at a house in Remer, MN yesterday seriously injured a man who was working on the furnace. The injured man, who was the only one inside the home at the time of the blast, was airlifted to…
August 2, 2019
When a regional gas pipeline ruptured in Lincoln County, Kentucky in the early morning hours of August 1, 2019, it shot skyward a fireball so massive it was picked up on Louisville weather radar. Five people were injured and one…