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Location: Belle, WV
Final Report Released On: 07/06/2023

On Tuesday December 8, 2020, at approximately 10 pm EST an explosion occurred at Op...
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Location: Barbour County, WV
Final Report Released On: 12/17/2019

A tank violently exploded while it was being emptied of its contents.

Location: Charleston, WV
Final Report Released On: 05/11/2017
A leak originating from a storage tank at Freedom Industries contaminated the local water supply leaving hundreds of thousands of West Virginia residents without clean drinking water. ...
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Location: New Cumberland, WV
Final Report Released On: 07/16/2014
Company: AL Solutions

An explosion ripped through the New Cumberland A.L. Solutions titanium plant in West Virginia on December 9, 2010, fatally injuring three workers. The workers were processing titanium powder, ...
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Location: Belle, WV
Final Report Released On: 09/20/2011
Company: DuPont Corporation

On January 23, there was a release of highly toxic phosgene, exposing a veteran operator at the DuPont facility in Belle, West Virginia and resulting in his death one day later. DuPont officia...
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Location: Institute, WV
Final Report Released On: 01/20/2011
Company: Bayer CropScience
Two workers were fatally injured when a waste tank containing the pesticide methomyl violently exploded, damaging a process unit at the Bayer CropScience chemical plant in Institute, West Virgini...
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Location: Ghent, WV
Final Report Released On: 09/25/2008
Company: Little General Store
Four people were killed and five others were seriously injured when propane vapors from a storage tank ignited and exploded at the Little General convenience store and gas station in Ghent, West ...
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