Ill. Plant Blast, Fire Injures 3 Workers
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An explosion and fire at an Abbott Laboratories manufacturing site early Saturday sent three employees to the hospital, company and fire officials said.
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A huge explosion at a chemical plant rocked a suburb about 20 miles north of Boston early on Wednesday, sparking a massive fire that damaged about 30 homes and injured 10 people, local media reported.
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MILWAUKEE, Dec. 6 -- An explosion that may have started in a large propane tank flattened an industrial warehouse near downtown Milwaukee on Wednesday, killing at least three people and injuring 46 others, authorities said.
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A gas line exploded Monday, sending flames hundreds of feet in the air as some workers were laying a pipeline. Several nearby vehicles were burned but no one was hurt.
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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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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 intense fire torched an apartment building early Saturday, killing three people and forcing 11 families to scramble for safety from the smoke and flames, a fire official said.
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Three people were injured Thursday when a westbound CSX freight train derailed in northwest Ohio and struck three automobiles stopped at a track crossing.
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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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Fire broke out at a ThyssenKrupp plant in  Italy on Friday, just over a week after a blaze killed four  workers at another company site, but the fire was put out with  no injuries or damage, firefighters said.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. - An explosion rocked a chemical plant in an industrial section of Kansas City and sent a towering cloud of black smoke over the skyline Wednesday. There were no immediate reports of any injuries.
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EAU CLAIRE, Wis.  -- Explosions sent fireballs hundreds of feet into the air as flames gutted an industrial chemical recycling plant Friday morning.
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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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Three dead and 400 injured in quake that sparks blaze at world's biggest nuclear power station.
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An explosion has torn through part of a giant South African fuel and chemicals plant, killing five workers and injuring more than 100, the company that owns the plant says.
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A huge explosion at a fireworks factory in central Thailand on Sunday killed eight workers and injured three others, police said. About 20 workers were at the factory in Ayuthaya province
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Several explosions engulfed a chemical plant in flames Wednesday in an industrial section of Kansas City, forcing a broad evacuation as a towering cloud of black smoke rose over the skyline.