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Part II of II for the Alerts this week
Bryan
Industrial
HOTWORK FIRE Plant sustains fire damage, No injures reported, cause being probed (fire officials were investigating the cause of a fire at a beef processing plant that forced the evacuation of a warehouse – no one was injured in the blaze – the fire likely started from welding equipment outside a storage warehouse at the site – the stockyard area caught fire and flames spread to a wall of the building – four engines took roughly eight to 10 minutes to extinguish the fire – the warehouse held combustible materials, such as pallets of packaging cardboard, which did not catch fire)
FATAL HOTWORK EXPLOSION Man dies from burns (a man, 31, died in a hospital from burns he received following an explosion in a mechanic’s shop – he was cutting the top off of an empty barrel with a torch when the barrel exploded – the explosion may have been caused when the torch ignited petroleum fumes that may have been in the barrel)
FATAL EXPLOSION @ REFINERY
HYDROGEN SULFIDE Gas leak shuts down local refinery (a hydrogen sulfide leak shut down a refinery and may have sickened a handful of people around the plant)
FATAL EXPLOSION @ PIPELINE
Fire burns bark processing plant (authorities are investigating a fire at a bark processing plant – video surveillance appears to show the fire may have started in a well located between a package bag storage building and maintenance building – high winds carried the flames from the initial site of the fire to a nearby packaging building)
Mineral oil cause of generator fire in Bayonne (with one firefighter treated for exhaustion, the fire at a power plant was a dramatic display of smoke that snarled traffic and took hours for firefighters to contain – oil used to cool wires at the plant caught fire – this mineral oil was the reason the fire produced the large black plumes – appears to have started at a switching station)
Three-Alarm Fire Hits Philadelphia Recycling Plant (black smoke could be seen for miles after a three-alarm fire erupted at a recycling facility – flames consumed toasters, vacuums, heaters and tires at the recycling plant – there was no property damage or injuries – crews extinguished the fire in about an hour-and-a-half – an investigation into the cause of the fire is underway)
HOTWORK FIRE Metal cutter started fire at former furniture plant (investigators say sparks from a metal cutter ignited lacquer and started the massive fire at the old furniture plant – fire investigators say the sprinkler system was in full working order despite earlier reports of problems)
Electrical Problem Sparks Fire At Bayonne Chemical Plant (a blaze that broke out at a large chemical processing facility appears to have been an electrical fire and caused no injuries – the fire at the Tank Terminal burned for about three hours before it was extinguished – the fire apparently started in a cogenerating station that possibly contained an electrical transformer)
FLASH FIRE Two Waterford residents severely burned in flash fire at Momentive (two employees were severely burned in an explosion and flash fire in the chemical operations area – both employees were in stable condition at a Medical Center – around 2:46 a.m., two employees were injured while prepping the systems for maintenance – the incident occurred about seven months after the Occupational Safety and Health Administration issued Momentive eight citations with a penalty of about $36,000 – the citations included not following up with a 2004 study which recommended the consideration of installing a flame arrestor in an unidentified location and indicated that the chemical operations east plant operating manual’s critical alarms section did not reflect the current alarm high and low set points for selected instruments – one worker has worked at the facility for about one year and the other has been there for nearly five years – they were working in a production building where fumed silica, used to make a filler product, is manufactured – the on-site Industrial Emergency Response Brigade responded immediately and had the injured men ready for the ambulance and medevac)
AMMONIA Ammonia Leak Closed Ikea, Nightclub (firefighters evacuated several businesses after an ammonia leak was discovered in a frozen food warehouse – fire officials responded to reports of the smell of ammonia at the warehouse – the leak had been contained – crews used water to disperse the ammonia cloud – no injuries were reported)
FIRE One burned in warehouse fire in NW Harris Co. (the fire happened at a warehouse containing a number of chemicals – four employees were taken to hospitals – three were checked out a local hospitals for smoke inhalation – the fourth person suffered burns was transported to a Hospital – all other employees have been accounted for at the building – although officials aren’t entirely certain what chemicals are involved, there is no shelter in place advisory at this time – unclear what caused the blaze)
FORKLIFT PROPANE CYLINDER EXPLODES Propane explosion damages Warwick commercial building (a propane tank explosion caused part of a mercantile building to collapse – an employee of a courier service was moving the propane tank on a forklift shortly after 9:30 a.m. when a fellow worker shouted to him that the forklift had caught fire – the forklift operator got off the machine and notified other workers in an adjacent office of the fire – the workers got out of the building just before the propane tank exploded – the forklift operator suffered minor leg burns and was treated in a Hospital, as were two firefighters who also were hurt slightly – the damaged part of the building probably will have to be torn down)
Construction
HOTWORK FIRE Fire damages former Little Gem Diner’s roof (a fire broke out at the former Diner causing minor roof damage – construction crews had been using a torch on the roof and left combustibles too close to the heated area – it wasn’t until a couple hours later that smoke was noticed coming from the building – the fire was put out quickly and no injuries were reported)
CRANE FATALITY Man killed by crane at Ariz. quarry (a crane accident at a quarry killed the driver, 28 – he was killed when a crane he was driving rolled over – he was driving a 100 ton crane down a hillside when he lost control of the vehicle and it flipped over – it took six and a half hours to right the crane and get to the body for removal)
workplace violence
1 Injured, 1 Arrested in Plant City Warehouse Shooting (a worker, 53, opened fire at a warehouse, injuring a worker, and he set fires inside an office before he surrendered – he fired the first shots outside an office area at the warehouse – he then entered the offices, where he fired more rounds from a 9 mm handgun and started at least three fires – he has no prior arrests and was charged with attempted first-degree murder, aggravated battery, arson, shooting into an occupied building, using a firearm in the commission of a violent felony and eight counts of aggravated assault – he was reluctant to discuss his motive – witnesses who knew him said he was a truck driver who had been fired some time ago from a company that contracts with the company – one of the bullets he fired struck a worker, 25, who worked for a company contracted by the business to load and unload trucks – he was hit in the lower body and treated for the non-life-threatening injury at a Hospital – he appeared to be an unintended target)
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