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A massive Surfside building collapse occurred in the early hours of Thursday morning, the residential structure located in a Miami Beach bedroom community. Very little information is yet available on everything from the case of the calamity and the number of casualties. What is known is that the collapse accurately can be described as a major catastrophe. As Thursday dawned along the Miami Beach area, rescue workers were working frantically to remove victims from the rubble of the apartment or…

A massive Illinois chemical plant fire erupted on Monday in Rockton Village in Winnebago County. The colossal blaze occurred at the Chemtool facility, a plant that manufactures grease and lubricant. Officials anticipate that several more days will pass before the Illinois chemical fire is brought under control. The fire has already completely destroyed the entire Chemtool plant. 70 workers were employed at the now-devastated Chemtool facility. According to company management and firefighting officials, all of the workers were safely evacuated…

The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration, OSHA, has concluded a comprehensive investigation of a steam explosion at a Connecticut VA hospital that occurred at the end of 2020. Two people working on the steam system at the Connecticut VA hospital located in West Haven were killed as a result of the steam explosion. In its report, OSHA concluded that the accident and the deaths of the two workers could have been completed avoided. Horrific Deaths at West Haven VA…

As a general rule, members of the general public pay little attention to alterations in the composition of fuel oils being stored at Houston refineries and elsewhere across Texas and around the United States. Understanding this reasonably understandable preference of not focusing on what many would call the minutia of the petroleum industry, the public-at-large undoubtedly generally is unaware of an alternation in the composition of Number Six Fuel Oil. The public and even much of the petroleum industry is…

Eight workers were injured last week in a catastrophic Colorado steel mill explosion in Pueblo. Three of those individuals remain in critical condition with no clear prognosis yet in site. An alarming additional fact has now been made known about the Colorado steel mill explosion. EVRAZ Rocky Mountain Steel, the owner of the plant where the massive blast occurred, has previously been cited by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, OSHA, for putting its workers at risk of an explosion…