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Pure nitromethane is an insensitive explosive with a VoD of approximately 6,400 m/s (21,000 ft/s), but even so inhibitors may be used to reduce the hazards. The tank car explosion was speculated [citation needed] to be due to adiabatic compression, a hazard common to all liquid explosives. This is when small entrained air bubbles compress and ...
The state hit Atmos with a $1.6 million fine in 2021 as a result of the explosion, and required the company to submit plans to fix the problems. Downtown Fort Worth also saw another gas explosion ...
February 21, 1978 - An explosion & fire at a Rialto pipeline tank farm injured a passerby. [13] February 9, 1980 - A tank farm fire in Kern County. [14] April 10, 1989 – An explosion and fire occurred in a cracking column at the Chevron Richmond refinery. A total of 8 workers and firefighters were injured.
1946 Greenville propane explosion; 1956 Bush Terminal explosion; 1984 Romeoville petroleum refinery disaster; 1990 ARCO explosion; 1990 Interstate 75 fog disaster; 2010 Tesoro Anacortes Refinery disaster; 2018 Husky Energy Refinery explosion; 2019 Philadelphia refinery explosion; 2023 LaSalle chemical plant fire; 2023 Texas dairy farm explosion
Site of Phillips explosions of 1989, 1999 and 2000 (as photographed in 2008). At approximately 1:22 p.m. CT on March 27, 2000, an explosion and fire responsible for one death and 71 injuries occurred at Phillips Petroleum's Houston Chemical Complex at 1400 Jefferson Road in Pasadena, Texas. [1]
On January 24, 2020, a building at Watson Grinding and Manufacturing in northwest Houston, Texas, United States, exploded at 4:24 a.m. [1] [2] Debris was scattered as far as one-half mile (0.8 km), [3] and approximately 200 nearby houses and businesses were damaged. [4]
The United States Geological Survey recorded the explosion as a 2.1-magnitude tremor. [40] [41] The blast was heard in nearby Hillsboro, Waxahachie, DeSoto, and as far north as Arlington. Windows were blown out in Abbott, 7 miles (11 km) NNE of West. [42] Texas Governor Rick Perry issued a statement on the evening of April 17:
Federal regulators have cited Tesla for violating workplace safety rules in connection with the electrocution of a worker last summer at its Austin, Texas, auto-manufacturing plant. The U.S ...