Dust blamed in deadly refinery blast
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Volatile dust was blamed Friday in an explosion that leveled a sugar refinery, and crews pulled four bodies from tunnels beneath the mangled mass of metal and beams left by the blast.
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Between 30 and 50 people were killed in an explosion at a fuel pipeline on the outskirts of the Nigerian commercial capital Lagos.
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An explosion and fire Monday at a chemical distribution facility northeast of Des Moines sent plumes of thick smoke into the sky and burned out of control for several hours after it ignited.
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Search crews found no trace Sunday of three workers still missing in the smoldering remnants of a sugar refinery explosion last week that left five people dead and injured dozens more.
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BAGHDAD, Aug. 29 -- Scavengers siphoning gasoline from a pipeline in the southern city of Diwaniyah caused an explosion Tuesday that killed 50 people and wounded 80, officials said. Meanwhile, a visiting Bush administration official said that Iraq's future depended on its ability to enforce the rule...
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A construction crew struck an underground petroleum pipeline Tuesday, sparking an explosion and fire that killed at least two people, burned several nearby buildings and shot flames high in the air.
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LAGOS : The death toll from an explosion at a fuel pipeline on the outskirts of the Nigerian city of Lagos has risen to around 60 as more bodies were recovered from the scene.
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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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In the blink of an eye, Eva Rowe lost both her parents when a gasoline unit exploded at a BP refinery in Texas City, killing them and 13 others in the worst industrial accident in the United States for more than a decade.
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An explosion flattened a commercial building Tuesday, killing two workers and critically injuring a third. Rescue crews were searching the ruins for another worker.
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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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One person was killed and one person injured when a pipeline carrying natural gas to the northeastern and mid-Atlantic states recently hard hit by winter storms exploded in northeast Louisiana, at about 1 p.m. CST (1900 GMT), according to local media reports.
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A New York woman has been added to the  number of victims killed in the attack on the World Trade  Center, in the first confirmed death from dust generated by the  collapse of the twin towers.
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A supervisor at BP Plc's Texas City, Texas, refinery died on Monday of head injuries suffered when a heavy metal lid blew off a unit during a restart, his family's lawyer and BP said on Tuesday.
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At least 12 people have been killed in an explosion at a fuel pipeline on the outskirts of the Nigerian city, Lagos. Reports from Imore village, to the north of Nigeria&#39;s biggest city, say that some of the
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CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - Explosions that killed five employees at a central Illinois chemical plant in 2004 were caused by a worker mistakenly opening a valve on a high-temperature processing unit, a federal agency said Tuesday.  The U.S.
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Firefighters tackling a major blaze following an explosion at an Essex oil refinery say it is now under control.