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03.14 Germany 100314-02 Großkayna, Sachsen-Anhalt. About 14 million litres (3.8 million US gallons) of liquid manure spilled at a pig-breeding facility, following an explosion in a biogas plant. According to police two tanks apparently were ruptured, and the stinking manure was spread over an area of nearly three square kilometres, or nearly 400 football fields. [Presumably soccer, rather than US football.]
Irregularities in the plant operation were noted between 03:00 and 04:00, and the explosion occurred around 07:00. People were not injured, and there had been no danger to local residents, police said. The fire department with 48 men tried to prevent the manure from spreading much farther, and from doing serious environmental damage. Storm-water ditches were reinforced with sandbags, and a trench was dug for the additional runoff into a storm-water catch basin. The work was completed in the afternoon. The damage is estimated at tens of thousands of euros. |
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03.13 Mexico 100313-04 Salamanca, Guanajuato state. Pemex: Refinería Ing. Antonio M. Amor. A tank containing thousands of gallons of gasoline caught fire within the Ing. Antonio M. Amor refinery and took over three hours to control. There were no reported injuries from the accident. The fire was apparently caused by the failure of a valve of the tank. The incident occurred after 18:00 in Merox plant in the north of the refinery, with Tank 203 which was engulfed in flames within minutes but it was controlled before it reached into other containers.
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03.12 Brazil 100312-13 São Francisco do Conde, 66 km from Salvador (BA). Petrobras. Mip Engineering. Refinaria Landulpho Alves. A worker suffered burns over about 80% of the body when a boiler exploded during the installation procedure. Two more people were injured in the accident. The explosion of the steam pipe occurred in Unit 83 of the refinery, during the installation of two boilers by workers of one of the subcontractors to Petrobras. In trying to cut the pipe with a blowtorch, the workers were hit by “waste water vapour”.
In a statement, the refinery said: "On the afternoon, Friday, March 12, around 15:30, an accident occurred at U-83 (Central Utilities - site of the second boiler), with three employees of the outsourcing company Mip. The workers were hit by a leak of water vapour, and were immediately forwarded to the Medical Intensive Care Unit of Candeias, for the treatment of burns." The statement also said a commission was created to identify the causes of the accident.
According to the Union of Oil and Chemicals of Bahia, the victim was burned over 70% of the body and underwent surgery overnight. The other two injured were also hospitalized with burns to 20% of the body. |
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