Summary This bulletin comes after a number of recent hot work accidents that share all or many of the same safety lessons. Seven of the accidents have occurred since July 2008. While each ...

Summary On October 26, 2019, an Aghorn employee responded to a pump oil level alarm at Aghorn’s Foster D waterflood station in Odessa, Texas. In response to the alarm, the employee worked ...

Summary The Pike River Mine disaster was a coal mining accident that began on 19 November 2010 in the Pike River Mine, 46 km (29 mi) northeast of Greymouth, in the West Coast region of New...

Summary The Deepwater Horizon drilling rig explosion was the April 20, 2010, explosion and subsequent fire on the Deepwater Horizon semi-submersible Mobile Offshore Drilling Unit (MODU), w...

Summary The 2010 Tesoro Anacortes Refinery disaster occurred on April 2, 2010. Seven workers received fatal burns in an explosion and ensuing fire when a heat exchanger violently ruptured ...

Summary At approximately 1:20 p.m. on March 23, 2005, a series of explosions occurred at the BP Texas City refinery during the restarting of a hydrocarbon isomerization unit. Fifteen worke...

Summary In the early hours of March 15, 2001 there were two explosions in the aft starboard column at or around the emergency drain tank. The first explosion was caused by an overpressure ...

Summary Air France Flight 4590 was an international charter flight, from Charles de Gaulle Airport, Paris, to John F. Kennedy International Airport, New York, flown by an Aérospatiale-BAC ...

Summary The Esso Longford gas explosion was a catastrophic industrial accident which occurred at the Esso natural gas plant at Longford in the Australian state of Victoria’s Gippsland regi...

Summary On 21 August 1991, at the Anchor Tank facility, St. Elmo’s fire ignited one of the storage tanks, resulting in the Coode Island explosion. About 8.5 million litres of organic compo...