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Hamlet chicken processing plant fire. On September 3, 1991, an industrial fire caused by a failed improvised repair to a hydraulic line destroyed the Imperial Food Products chicken processing plant in Hamlet, North Carolina. Despite three previous fires in 11 years of operation, the plant had never received a safety inspection.
A plant for processing ammonium nitrate in Edison, New Jersey, exploded, killing 24 people, injuring 100 and destroying several buildings. July 10, 1926: Picatinny Arsenal in New Jersey. 600,000 lbs. of explosives detonated as a result of a lightning strike. 187 of the 200 buildings in the arsenal were destroyed and debris was found as far as ...
Non-fatal injuries. 10. The 2021 Georgia poultry plant accident was an industrial disaster that occurred on January 28, 2021, in Gainesville, Georgia, United States. Six people were killed by asphyxiation [1] and at least ten were injured when a liquid nitrogen leak occurred inside a poultry processing plant owned by Foundation Food Group. [2]
On 7 February 2008, fourteen people were killed and thirty-six injured during a dust explosion at a refinery owned by Imperial Sugar in Port Wentworth, Georgia, United States. Dust explosions had been an issue of concern among U.S. authorities since three fatal accidents in 2003, with efforts made to improve safety and reduce the risk of ...
Explosion. On June 9, 2009 a contractor from Energy Systems Analysts (ESA) was installing an industrial water heater at the ConAgra plant. The ESA worker attempted to purge the air out of a three-inch pipe meant to supply natural gas to the heater, using natural gas. As per ESA's typical practices, the worker vented the purged gases into the ...
At the beginning of the pandemic, several large food processing plants had various workers test positive for coronavirus, which led to immediate shutdowns. Many of the factories that had to halt ...
Workers at the Pitman processing plant, in the central San Joaquin Valley city of Sanger, told The Bee that they choose to endure potential danger and pain because starting at around $18 an hour ...
The meat industry has been severely affected by the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. [1] Outbreaks of the virus took place in factories operated by the meat packing industry and the poultry processing industry. These outbreaks affected dozens of plants, leading to closures of some factories and disruption of others, and posed a ...