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An explosion and subsequent fire left 15 people injured at BASF’s Ludwigshafen chemical complex in Germany on 29 July. The chemical giant said in a statement that an organic solvent…

A manufacturer of military explosives has been fined £670,000 after an employee was killed and another seriously injured in an explosion at a factory near Salisbury, UK. The two men…

A fire broke out following an explosion at a hydrogen fuelling station in near Augsburg, Germany on 26 June, forcing the facility to be closed down just one week after…

A fire caused by exploding lithium batteries at a factory in South Korea killed 22 workers and injured eight others on 24 June. The incident happened at a facility owned…

An explosion at a liquid nitriding facility in Chattanooga, Tennessee killed one person on 30 May. The worker was initially rushed to hospital with serious injuries but was later confirmed…

An explosion injured three people and caused a sodium hydroxide spill at a chemical facility in Macedonia, Ohio on 15 May. The incident happened while a tanker truck was being…