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U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board

Note: The following incidents have not been necessarily ruled as direct results of Y2K problems, yet the seriousness risks associated with high hazard chemical plants presents a need for community & family preparedness.

2/7/2000 - Toulon, France Tunnel Fire in southern France Injures 17

2/6/2000 - 2:00 PM - Springfield, VT Spill at Electroplating Company Causes Evacuation, Closure of Main Street

2/6/2000 - 10:30 AM - Montville, CT Oil Truck Spills Load, Highway Closed 2/4/2000 - Belem, Brazil Barge with Nearly 500,000 Gallons of Oil Sinks in northern Brazil

2/4/2000 - 8:00 PM - Minneapolis, MN Hydrochloric Acid Spill at Printing Plant, Building Evacuated; 3-Alarm Haz Mat Response Declared

2/4/2000 - 10:00 AM - Sydney, Australia Fire Burns at Qenos Chemical Plant; Ethylene Producer Just Cooling and Protecting From Exposures

2/3/2000 - 11:00 AM - Washington, DC Hazardous Materials Scare Prompts Police To Close Part of U.S. Capitol

2/2/2000 - Buffalo, NY More Than 50 Sickened From Carbon Monoxide Leak at Bowling Alley

2/2/2000 - Brownsville, TX Toxic Spill Prompts Warning That Fish May be Unsafe to Eat

2/1/2000 - 10:45 AM - Bethel, NC Large Evacuation Area Reduced as Train Crews Begin Rebuilding Tracks

2/1/2000 - 11:04 AM - Salt Lake City, UT Two Unrelated Chemical Spills Prompt Evacuations, Road Closures

2/31/2000: - Baia Mare, Romania Hungary Blames Romania for Major Cyanide Spill; Municipal Water Systems Shut, Wildlife Killed

1/30/2000 - Desaguadero River, Bolivia Oil Spill in Andean River Killing Wildlife, Harming Indian Farmers

1/30/2000 - 10:40 PM - Fuji, Japan Acrylic Acid Spill Closes Japanese Expressway

1/29/2000 - 7:05 PM - Blue Island, IL Fire at Refinery is Second Accident Since Christmas Eve Explosion

1/29/2000 - 5:30 PM - Flora Vista, NM Gasoline Storage Tank Explodes; Kills One Teen, Injures Another

1/28/2000 - 7:15 PM - Lowell, MA Almost 12,000 Gallons of Gasoline Spilled When Tanker Overturns On Highway

1/28/2000: - 1:23 PM - Battle Creek, MI Teacher, Four Students Seriously Injured During Classroom Chemistry Experiment; 11 Others Hurt

1/27/2000: 5:15 AM - Sowa, Japan Chemical Factory Worker Killed, Another Injured When Acid Drum Explodes

1/27/2000: - Winchester, KY 24-inch Crude Oil Pipeline Ruptures in Kentucky; Cleanup Could Take Days or Weeks

1/26/2000 - Reno, NV Investigators Seek Clues Into Dumping of Several Gallons of Mercury

1/25/2000: - 12:00 PM - Saugus, MA Natural Gas Pipeline Fire Started by Downed Electrical Line

1/25/2000: - Minden, LA Explosion at Ammunition Plant Badly Burns Employee

1/24/2000: - 5:30 PM - East Helena, MT Fire at Lead Smelter Declared Out; Shelter-in-Place Order Lifted

1/24/2000 - 7:00 PM - Lock heath, United Kingdom Chemical Spill Threatens River and Spurs Major Alert

1/24/2000 - Stony Creek, Ontario, Canada Fire, Explosion at Lamination Plant Causes Evacuations of Homes, Businesses

1/23/2000: Masury, OH Propane Tanks Explode at Industrial Complex, Worker Seriously Injured; Damage Up to $500,000

1/23/2000: - 5:00 PM - Stroudsburg, PA Gas Leak Suspected Cause of Explosion That Extensively Damages Store, Showers Street with Debris

1/23/2000 - 11:30 AM - Cambridge, MA More Than 1,300 Harvard University Students Evacuated Due to Carbon Monoxide Fumes

1/23/2000 - Moscow, Russia Oxygen Tanks at Construction Site Explode, Two Injured

1/23/2000 - Platte City, MO Ten Killed in Fiery 24-Vehicle Pileup North of Kansas City; Fire Fueled by Hydrochloric Acid Leak

1/22/2000: - 7:00 PM - Long Beach, MS Chemical Drums Explode at Hot Tub, Spa Manufacturer; Factory Destroyed

1/22/2000 - 3:00 PM - Flemington, NJ Fire Chief and Patrolman Injured As Building Explodes

1/22/2000 - 3:00 AM - Claremont, CA Car Strikes Fuel Tanker, One Killed - Interstate Closed

1/21/2000 - Campeche Bay, Mexico Fire at Major Mexican Oil Field, Sixth Largest in World, But Production Not Affected

1/21/2000 - 3:45 AM - Flint, MI Propane Rail Tank Car Fire Burns Out; Major Explosion Averted

1/21/2000 - 1:00 AM - Fountain Valley, CA Fast-moving Fire in Plastics Factory Apparently Started by Chemical Reaction

1/21/2000 - Los Alamos, NM Hundreds of Gallons of Contaminated Water Spills from DoE Lab

1/21/2000 - 3:45 AM - Flint, MI Propane Rail Tank Car Burning; 1-mile Area Evacuated, 500,000 Gallons of Fuel Moved Out of Danger

1/21/2000 - Breckenridge, MN Spontaneous Combustion from Chemical Reaction Damages Movie Theater

1/20/2000 - Clermont-Ferrand, France French Firefighters Extinguish Huge Blaze at Tire Factory

1/19/2000 - 2:30 PM - Temple, TX Texas Plastics Plant Destroyed; Four Workers Injured

1/19/2000 - Garrison, ND Plumber Working in Hospital Injured When Welding Tank Explodes

1/19/2000 - Darien, WI More than 300 Evacuated After Natural Gas Leak

1/18/2000 - 1:30 PM - Chikkalsandra, India Blast at Indian Movie Studio Kills Three

1/18/2000 - 7:20 AM - Sulphur, LA Five Burned by Flash Fire at Gas Well

1/18/2000 - Shreveport, LA Two Injured, One Critically, After Chemical Explosion at Refinery

1/17/2000 - 8:30 AM - St. Paul, MN Dozen People Treated for Exposure to Industrial Liquid

1/16/2000 - 8:50 PM - Kiel, WI Several Hundred Evacuated After Train Derails, Leaks Methanol

1/16/2000 - Springfield, MO Man Killed, Two Auto Businesses Destroyed in Explosion

1/15/2000 - 5:30 PM - Kansas City, KS Federal Investigators Think Fireworks, Chemicals Caused Fatal Blast

1/15/2000 - Balatonfuzfo, Hungary Explosion Destroys Hungarian Gunpowder Plant, One Dies

1/14/2000 - 9:00 AM - Durham, NH Tractor-Trailer Overturns, but Sodium Hydroxide Cargo Remains Contained

1/14/2000 - Albany, NY State Workers Sent Home Following Chemical Spill

1/14/2000 - Dearborn, MI Spectacular, not Destructive Fire; Fifth Recent Incident at Dearborn Company

1/13/2000: - La Guaira, Venezuela Mudslides Cause Toxic Chemical Spill; Evacuations Ordered as International Cleanup Effort Starts

1/13/2000: - Lynn, MA Natural Gas Explosion at Potato Chip Factory Forces Evacuations

1/13/2000: - 10:00 PM - York, United Kingdom Forty-foot Fireball in Residential Street After Natural Gas Explosion

1/13/2000: - Bayport, TX Chemical Reaction at Plant Prompts Evacuation, Road Closure 1/13/2000: 10:45 AM - Tokyo, Japan Sodium Hydroxide Leaks at Japanese Chemical Plant

1/12/2000 - Govandi, India Four Killed As Balloon Seller's Gas Cylinder Explodes; 27 Injured. Official Response Criticized

1/12/2000 - 12:00 PM - Niles, IL Seven Workers Hurt in Blast at Metal Recycling Company; FourWorkers Critically Burned

1/12/2000 - 10:00 AM - Grand Chute, WI 30 Sent to Hospital When Ammonia Line Breaks at Food Plant

1/12/2000 - 9:00 AM - Akron, OH Evacuation Ends As Butadiene Spill Contained at Chemical Plant 1/12/2000 - 6:55 AM - Canton Township, MI Ammonia Line Leaks as Explosion and Fire Follow at Food Plant; Two Injured

1/11/2000 - 7:30 PM - Rangely, CO Natural Gas Line Explosion Forces Closure of State Highway

1/11/2000 - 2:40 PM - Compton, CA Explosion, Fire at Food Company Injures four

1/11/2000 - 6:45 AM - Mosier, OR Interstate 84 Closed After Wreck Causes Spill of Acid and Chlorine

1/10/2000 - 10:00 PM - London, United Kingdom Gas Explosion in London Store Injures Three

1/10/2000 - 9:30 AM - Richmond County, GA Non-Toxic Liquid Glass Spilled After Tanker Truck Overturns

1/10/2000 - Mantova, Italy Gas Explosion Collapses Two-Story Building in Italy, Four Killed

1/8/2000 - 1:00 PM - Cincinnati, OH Much of 365,000 Gallons of Liquid Nitrogen Released into Ohio River

1/8/2000 - 9:20 AM - Ventura, CA Man Killed, Two Injured at Oil Tool Plant Explosion

1/8/2000 - Buffalo, NY Three Homes Catch Fire After Gas Truck Pumps Load into a Kerosene Tank;

1/8/2000 - Wrightstown, WI Freight Train Strikes Truck Carrying Propane, Driver Killed, Residents Evacuated

1/7/2000 - 5:30 AM - Dearborn, MI Another Accident at Ford Rouge Facility (explosion,fire)

1/7/2000 - Portland, ME High School Evacuated When Unstable Chemicals Discovered in Classroom Lab

1/7/2000 - Anderson, IN Indiana's White River Again Contaminated, This Time by "Mysterious Foam"

1/6/2000 - 1:45 PM - Pasadena, TX, 2,800 Students, Faculty Evacuated as Construction Crew Hits Natural Gas Line

1/6/2000 - 11:30 AM - Amherst, NY Cleaning Solvent Spill at Hotel Creates Chlorine Gas, Three Sent to Hospital

1/6/2000 - 9:20 AM - Naples, FL Gasket Failure Causes Chlorine Leak at Water Plant

1/6/2000 - 9:10 AM - Corby, United Kingdom Forty Factory Workers Sent to Hospital When Cleaning Fluids Mistakenly Mixed

1/6/2000 - Point Comfort, TX Caustic Soda Spills from Pipeline into Gulf of Mexico

1/5/2000 - 3:00 PM - Columbus, OH Hundreds Evacuate VA Medical Clinic, Seven Taken to Hospital Due to Carbon Monoxide Leak

1/5/2000 - Davey, FL Anhydrous Ammonia Leak at Ice Plant; Nearby Resident Dies, Eight Workers Exposed

1/5/2000 - Upper Darby, PA Fire Destroys Chemical Plant; Firefighters Unsure of Chemicals Involved 1/2/2000 - 9:00 AM - Diamond Springs, CA Thermostat Apparently Malfunctions at Gold-Plating Facility; Fire, Evacuation Result 1/2/2000 - White Hall, AR, Worker Suffers Serious Burns from White Phosphorus Handling Accident at Army 1/1/2000 - Umatilla, OR - Trace Amount of Nerve Gas Discovered Leaking from Army Weapons

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-- Dave & Leah (Inwyo2@aol.com), February 10, 2000

Answers

Where are the news crews?

The most likely probability is that they are prohibted from covering the story. Couple this w/Marcia's refinery/pipeline/crude outages and this story is not going away.

Telecoms and muncipalities have had similar number of hits.

Nothing systemic? Yet???

Not much on banks/finance but if similar glitches the cost could be mounting.

-- Bill P (porterwn@one.net), February 10, 2000.

I wonder if it would do some good to send this Page to some of the more known Horse Shit Newspapers,that are cluttering up America???

-- Kept in the dark (no@news.atall), February 10, 2000.

I'd like to see the same statistics for randomly chosen two month periods for the last 7 years or any explanation of how any these events occured as a result of systems' inability to deal with the year 2000. And by the way what happened to the concerns about January month end processing? No problems here for a 20B$ company.

-- bikey (eyes_wide_open@all_the_time.com), February 10, 2000.