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The Seacor Power left Port Fourchon on Tuesday, heading for an oil drilling site off the coast of Louisiana in the Gulf of Mexico. The Seacor Power is what in the oil industry is known as a “lift boat” or a “jack-up boat.” In simple terms, a jack-up boat is something akin to a mobile oil rig platform. In the case of the Seacor Power, the craft and mobile oil rig was headed to a point in the Gulf located…

A cannabis manufacturing plant explosion accident resulted in two workers sustaining injuries that required hospitalization. The explosion occurred at the New MexiCANN Natural Medicine plant located in Santa Fe, New Mexico. In addition to two workers sustaining injuries, the New MexiCANN explosion accident has resulted in the revelation that multiple hazardous conditions and issues existed at the facility. The New MexiCANN explosion accident itself occurred while the pair of injured workers were using equipment that extracts THC from the cannabis…

Two Iowa State University students are dead after a drowning accident on Little Wall Lake north of Ames, Iowa, the home of the school. The two deceased young men were among five members of the Iowa State University crew club who were rowing on the lake in near-freezing temperatures and at a time when wind gusted up to 30 miles per hour. The boat, technically known as a shell, carried four rowers and a coxswain. Emergency services were immediately called…

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 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…