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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…

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…

A natural gas explosion case ended up being criminally prosecuted in Rockland County, New York. Ultimately, and as will be discussed in more detail in a moment, the true facts of the matter revealed that the State of New York had taken legal action against the wrong party when it came to a catastrophic natural gas explosion. Before diving deeper into the aftermath of this particular natural gas explosion, a consideration of the incident itself is important and illuminating. A subcontractor…