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February 16, 2016 – One person was injured in an explosion, at a Pittsburg County oil field. Fire spread to 3 other wells. [125] January 22, 2018 - Five workers killed in a gas well explosion near Quinton, Oklahoma; [126] deaths due to burns and smoke inhalation. [127] May 24, 2018 - A tank battery caught fire in southwest Oklahoma City. [128]
February 18 – A 16-inch crude oil pipeline ruptured in Yukon, Oklahoma. Oil accumulated in a 7-acre private pond. About 84,000 gallons of crude were spilled. [464] [465] February 23 – A house in a suburb of Dallas, Texas exploded, killing a girl and injuring 4 others in her family. This followed a number of gas distribution line leaks in ...
August 17 – An Oklahoma crude oil pipeline ruptured after being struck by a machine cleaning roadside ditches, sending oil 30 feet (9.1 m) into the air and damaging nearby cotton crops with up to 150,000 US gallons (570,000 L) spilled. [48]
May 14 – A bulldozer hit a gas pipeline while digging a reserve pit for an oil well near Rush Springs, Oklahoma, causing a gas fire that injured 9 workers. May 18 – Sunoco pipeline crews were digging to find their 12-inch pipeline, when they hit it, causing a rupture, and spilling gasoline east of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Over 20,000 ...
Tullytown's fire marshal is investigating what caused an oil heater to explode Aug. 2 in the 60 block of Stream Lane sending three people to the hospital
November 6 – A natural gas explosion destroyed a house, in Catskill (town), New York, on November 6. The house had not had active gas service since 1969. The explosion killed a woman in the house, seriously injured her daughter, and slightly injured two children in a neighboring house. Gas had escaped from a nearby cracked gas main. [87]
Oct. 22—State and federal law enforcement agencies are investigating the motive behind a "very large homemade explosives laboratory" discovered Sunday inside a Hartshorne area residence. A press ...
The explosion was caused by a leak from a gas plant in a hotel's cellar. The resulting fire burned the three-story frame hotel to the ground. [17] June 26 – In Estes Park, Colorado, an explosion of gas in the Stanley Hotel endangered the lives of 20 guests and fatally injured one. The Stanley, a new $500,000 four-story hotel lighted by ...