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1946 Greenville propane explosion; 1963 Indiana State Fairgrounds Coliseum gas explosion; 1970 New York City gas explosion; 1973 Staten Island gas explosion; 1984 Romeoville petroleum refinery disaster; 2016 Portland, Oregon gas explosion; 2019 Durham gas explosion; 2019 Philadelphia refinery explosion; 2020 Houston explosion
Deepwater Horizon in flames after the explosion. This list is complementary to the List of pipeline accidents in the United States. Large accidents, qualifying as industrial disasters are included. The production process encompasses all parts of the process from drilling for fuels to refining or processing to the final product.
The massive explosion at the Sandman Signature Hotel in downtown Fort Worth, suspected as a gas leak, may be part of a worsening trend across the US. Gas leak explosions are happening more often ...
On September 13, 2018, excessive pressure in natural gas lines owned by Columbia Gas of Massachusetts caused a series of explosions and fires to occur in as many as 40 homes, with over 80 individual fires, in the towns of Lawrence, Andover, and North Andover, all within the Merrimack Valley, in Massachusetts, United States.
July 28 – A gas line explosion and fire occurred in Martin County, Texas, which injured four workers. A ditching truck hit an existing high-pressure gas line, causing an explosion and fire. [6] July 29 – A contractor ruptured a gas pipeline in Mont Belvieu, Texas, causing an explosion and fire. There were no injuries.
On March 12, 2014, an explosion occurred at 9:31 a.m. [1] in the East Harlem neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City, United States.The explosion leveled two apartment buildings located just north of 116th Street at 1644 and 1646 Park Avenue, [2] killing eight people, injuring at least 70 others, and displacing 100 families.
The Humberto Vidal Explosion (sometimes also referred to as the Río Piedras Explosion) was a gas explosion that occurred on November 21, 1996, on the Humberto Vidal shoe store located in Río Piedras, Puerto Rico, United States. The explosion killed 33 and wounded 69 others when the building collapsed.
February 9 – Five people were killed, and eight houses were destroyed, in a gas explosion and fire in Allentown, Pennsylvania. The NTSB had warned UGI about cast iron gas mains needing replacement after the 1990 gas explosion in that city. Between 1976 and the date of the letter, July 10, 1992, two more gas explosions occurred.