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Explosion of a truck of explosives

  • ROYAUME-UNI
At 9:45 am, a vehicle transporting nearly 800 kg of explosives exploded while making a U-turn on a company's premises within an industrial park where it had taken a wrong turn. The lorry, specially equipped to transport up to 5[...]
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Rupture of a tank in a refinery

  • FRANCE
Within a refinery storage zone, the shell of a fragile 15,000-m³ tank (at the end of its filling cycle) containing 13,500 m³ of HTS residue (at 130°C) split open. The flow of HC then destroyed two other tanks (15,000 m³[...]
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  • FRANCE
The summary of this accident has not yet been translated. In the meantime, please refer to the French summary : Lors du démarrage d'un reforming ancien, un piquage ¾'' se rompt sur une ligne du prétraitement d'entrée au four de[...]
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Vinyl chloride and PVC leak in a chemical plant

  • FRANCE
The summary of this accident has not yet been translated. In the meantime, please refer to the French summary : Une émission de 3,5 t de CVM a lieu sur un site chimique fabricant du PVC. La chaîne Poly III[...]
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