Explosion rocks chemical factory
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More than 10 fire engines are attending a fire at an old chemical factory in Ayrshire, Scotland.
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A chemical plant outside Boston blew up Wednesday with a roar so thunderous that people thought it was an earthquake or a plane crash, destroying two dozen homes in the tightly packed neighborhood but causing only minor injuries.
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At least nine workers were killed and 10 others injured Thursday in an explosion believed to have been triggered by some explosive materials brought as scrap in a steel factory in Uttar Pradesh state in northern India.
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By Robert Crowe, Houston Chronicle  Dec. 19--Four people were taken to hospitals after a 55-gallon drum of sulfuric acid exploded Monday night at a southeast Houston chemical plant.   The fire started about 8:20 p.m. at SET Environmental Inc., 5738 Cheswood.
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An explosion rocked an oil refinery Monday in a violent blast that shook buildings miles away and injured at least one person, the company said.
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India News &gt; New Delhi, Sep 30 : Ten people were killed and three injured Thursday in an explosion in a steel manufacturing factory near the Indian capital, police said.
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An investigation is opened into a huge fire at a chemical plant in Crewe which sent smoke across the town.
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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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A second explosion in less than 24 hours rocked a burning underground gas storage facility early Friday, prompting authorities to expand an evacuation zone around the site.
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Dozens of people were injured -- at least 30 of them critically -- in an explosion at a sugar refinery near Savannah, Georgia, tonight, a hospital official said. Ambulances were rushing the injured to area hospitals while rescuers searched for other victims.
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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 explosion tore through the world&#39;s biggest coal-to-synthetic fuels complex in South Africa on Wednesday, killing several workers and injuring others, the company that owns the plant said.
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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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A gas explosion ripped through a coal mine in China's northeastern rust-belt province of Liaoning, killing at least 203 workers in the worst disaster in 15 years to hit the world's most dangerous mining industry.
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Firefighters were still at the scene of a chemicals factory blaze this morning.   The fire broke out at around 12.15pm yesterday when an explosion was reported to have taken place at Aztec Chemicals in Crewe, Cheshire. A 200-metre exclusion zone was set up around the premises.
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Two people were killed and at least  two more were injured on Tuesday morning in an explosion at an  industrial chemical site in Perth Amboy, New Jersey, officials  said.
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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.