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The explosion in Lake Worth Beach's Bay Hill Village remains under investigation. However, neighbors believe it began when a 100-gallon propane tank caught fire. However, neighbors believe it ...
March 12 – An explosion and fire spread through a gas pipeline compressor station in Montezuma, Indiana, injuring 16 workers. [115] April 3 – A bulldozer cut through a propane pipeline, in Tylertown, Mississippi. Propane fumes spread over a 10 square mile area, with some residents voluntarily evacuating. There was no injuries, fire, or ...
June 21, 2019 - A propane and hydrofluoric acid leak caused a low-hanging vapor cloud, which ignited and resulted in 3 sequential explosions at a refinery in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The first two explosions where of vessels containing alkylate. The final explosion was the largest and was fueled by pure hydrocarbons.
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]
The propane tanker was not breached in the crash
BLEVE–fireball, 2008 Toronto propane explosion The following is a list of boiling liquid expanding vapor explosion (BLEVE) accidents. It shows whether the accident occurred during dangerous goods transportation or at a fixed facility, the accident origin (e.g., storage, process reactor, rail tank car, tank truck), the material involved, its amount, the number of fatalities, and whether a ...
ValuJet Airlines Flight 592 was a regularly scheduled flight from Miami to Atlanta in the United States. On May 11, 1996, the ValuJet Airlines McDonnell Douglas DC-9 operating the route crashed into the Florida Everglades about ten minutes after departing Miami as a result of a fire in the cargo compartment caused by mislabeled and improperly stored hazardous cargo (oxygen generators).
Five brothers from Minnesota have been seriously injured in a propane tank explosion. The siblings aged 6-14 years old suffered severe burns in an explosion at a storage unit north of Bagley, Minn ...