Explosion at Iowa chemical facility
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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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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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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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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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An explosion and massive fire at a chemical storage facility near downtown Kansas City forced an evacuation and closed nearby roads, authorities and local media reports said on Wednesday.
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A massive explosion that sent a cloud of black smoke over Jacksonville, Florida on Wednesday occurred across the street from a JEA generating plant but knocked two of three generating units offline, a company spokeswoman said.
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A dozen people hospitalized from injuries they got when a chemical plant exploded were released Thursday, while investigators kept residents away from the neighborhood riddled with homes and businesses blasted off their foundations.
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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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Up to 100 people were injured in an explosion at a sugar refinery in the U.S. state of Georgia, the Savannah-Chatham police department said.
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A massive explosion at a chemical plant shook an industrial district in Jacksonville, Florida on Wednesday, forcing evacuations and knocking out generators at a nearby electric utility, officials said.
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LONDON - A Syrian military installation rocked by an explosion in July was being used to develop chemical weapons, and Iranian engineers were among those killed, a defense publication reported yesterday.
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HOUSTON - An explosion at a rubber maker's warehouse killed a man and blew out the building's windows and walls on Thursday, authorities said.  No other injuries were reported in the midday blast inside the American Elastomer Products warehouse in southeastern Houston.
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By Paul Sand, The News Tribune, Tacoma, Wash.  Feb. 13--A chlorine leak at a chemical plant on Tacoma's waterfront Monday night sent a large force of firefighters and medical personnel to the scene and forced the evacuation of the industrial area around the plant.
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An explosion killed three people on  Tuesday at a Russian sugar refinery owned by Prodimex Group,  one of the country&#39;s largest producers, officials said on  Tuesday.
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MOSS BLUFF, Texas - A second explosion rocked an underground gas storage facility early Friday, forcing authorities to expand evacuations around the blaze that continued burning a day after an initial blast triggered by leaking gas.    The fire at Duke Energy's Moss Bluff storage facility intensified overnight, an official said...
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An explosion rocked an Army ammunition plant Wednesday, causing at least one serious injury, authorities said.
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At least six injured in petroleum plant blast in NW China    LANZHOU, Feb. 6 (Xinhua) -- At least six people were injured Tuesday in an explosion at a China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) chemical plant in Lanzhou, capital of northwest China's Gansu Province.