Sugar refinery had prior dust explosion
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Dust that collected in a piece of safety equipment caused a small explosion at a sugar refinery weeks before the deadly blast that killed nine workers, a federal investigator said Sunday.
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A helicopter dumped thousands of gallons of river water Monday onto a gutted sugar refinery where six workers died and two remained missing after an explosion that burned more deeply than officials first suspected.
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SUNRAY, Texas  - Federal safety investigators were headed to Valero Energy Corp.'s Sunray, Texas, refinery on Saturday, shut since Friday by an explosion in a residual crude unit.
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By James Hagengruber, The Spokesman-Review, Spokane, Wash.  Jan. 30--LIBBY, Mont. -- After finishing a shift at the vermiculite mine, Les Skramstad would come home covered in the white dust of asbestos.   He'd find the dust in deep recesses of his wallet.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A series of explosions that devastated a chemical distribution plant and shrouded this city in black smoke was an accident, officials said Friday.  Fire Chief Richard Dyer said the blaze started Wednesday when employees were offloading a petroleum-based product.
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MAKHACHKALA, December 9 (Itar-Tass) - A fire that flared up on the gas pipeline as a result of an explosion, was put out, Tass learnt from a duty officer of the Dagestan Ministry for Emergencies.
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Fire injures 31 at chemical plant in southeastern Turkey    ANKARA, Sept. 22 (Xinhua) -- Thirty-one people were injured in an explosion caused by fire in a chemical plant in southeastern Turkey, the semi-official Anatolia news agency reported on Friday.
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The silicon factories where a speck of dust is a big problem
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FORMOSA PLASTICS CORP. blames human error for the explosion that killed five workers and seriously injured three others at its Illiopolis plant on April 23, 2004. In the narrowest possible analysis of the accident, the company is correct.
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Specialists arrived Tuesday to help extinguish a five-day-old sugar-refinery fire burning too intensely and deeply for standard firefighting to douse, and officials feared the deadly blaze could once again trigger explosions.
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By SARAH ANTONACCI STAFF WRITER  The explosion at the Illiopolis Formosa Plastics plant that killed five workers almost three years ago might have been prevented if the facility's owners had strengthened safety protections, federal investigators said Tuesday.
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By DAVE SKRETTA  KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Several explosions engulfed a chemical plant in flames Wednesday, forcing a broad evacuation as the fire spewed a sticky substance that residents were warned not to touch.
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An investigation was under way yesterday into the cause of a large fire at a chemical factory.   The blaze broke out on Monday when an explosion was reported at Aztec Chemicals in Crewe, Cheshire.
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Four bodies have been found and four more workers are missing after an explosion at a sugar refinery in Georgia.
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Several explosions engulfed a chemical plant in flames Wednesday, forcing a broad evacuation as the fire spewed a sticky substance that residents were warned not to touch.
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An explosion shook a sugar refinery, starting a fire and injuring dozens of people, the authorities said.
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By John Shultz, The Kansas City Star, Mo.  Feb. 21--A worker was hurt in a small hydrochloric acid spill at a Kansas City manufacturing business Wednesday morning.   According to the fire department, the spill happened about 11 a.m.