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 19, 2019
A propane house explosion in Maynardville, TN sent a man to the hospital with serious burn injuries on Wednesday. Firefighters arrived at the scene on 3071 Hickory Valley Road at about 1:30 P.M. after receiving reports of an explosion and…
December 6, 2019
A South Dakota man died in a camper explosion and fire on Tuesday night. Michael Freiderichs (71) was inside the camper in Wahpeton, ND when it exploded and caught on fire. He was taken to St. Francis Medical Center in…
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 11, 2019
A teenage girl in Greensboro, NC was injured after an explosion in her high school chemistry class. The explosion took place at Western Guilford High School when a licensed chemistry teacher attempted an experiment with ethanol, alcohol, and salt. The…
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 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…