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A mammoth explosion rocked Columbus, Ohio, early Thursday morning. A deadly explosion accident occurred during the pre-dawn hours at the Yenkin-Majestic Paints campus-like facility located in an industrial park in Columbus. The cause of the catastrophic fire and explosion at the paint plant has to be identified. By midday Thursday, the fire at the facility had been extinguished. The Yenkin-Majestic Paints plant consisted of five separate buildings, the explosion and fire gutting one of them. Whether or not any major…

In the aftermath of the massive Channelview chemical plant accident, Harris County and State of Texas environmental officials are intensely monitoring air and water quality in the area surrounding the K-Solv facility. A huge fire erupted at the K-Solv chemical plant on Wednesday afternoon. When the blaze ignited, a mammoth, thick, black plume of smoke rose above the K-Solv plant and began to spread over Harris County. The exact cause of the Channelview chemical plant accident is not yet known….

A massive K-Solv chemical plant fire has been raging out of control for a couple of hours in Channelview in Harris County. According to K-Solv, at about the two-hour mark of the colossal blaze, no workers at the chemical plant have been seriously injured or killed. The company maintains that all of its workers are accounted for as of this time. While there may be certainty about accounting for employees, firefighters at the scene of the K-Solv chemical plant fire…

Retaining walls at the damaged Piney Point Reservoir are on the brink of complete collapse Easter Sunday afternoon. What is being described as an imminent breach of the retaining walls at the reservoir is apt to cause a 20-foot wall of water cascading into the surrounding area in Manatee County near Tampa Bay. The potential catastrophic flooding is worsened by the reality that Piney Point Reservoir exists to contain toxic wastewater from a shuttered phosphate plant. A breach of retaining…

A chemical plant accident can have catastrophic consequences. Loss of life and people who otherwise suffer severe, even debilitating injuries oftentimes stem from these types of disasters. A federal governmental agency known as the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board exists to promptly investigate chemical plant accidents and prepare detail reports on why an incident occurred, including an explosion accident. Unfortunately, the investigatory agency has fallen what some describe as hopelessly behind in its work to ascertain the cause…