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A UK company that manufactures stone kitchen worktops has been fined £60,000 after it repeatedly failed to protect workers from exposure to hazardous dust. Inspectors from the Health and Safety…

A fire broke out at a chemical factory in northeastern Spain on 10 May, forcing several towns into lockdown after a toxic cloud formed and began spreading away from the…

A series of explosions caused a large fire to break out at a battery recycling plant in North Ayrshire, Scotland on 9 April. The incident happened almost exactly a year…

An explosion at a factory in Saegertown, Pennsylvania injured 13 people on 9 February. The incident happened at an industrial plant which manufactures adhesives and coatings for industrial, automotive, oil…

An explosion at an ammunition factory in Spain injured six people on 31 January. The plant in the country’s southeastern Murcia region is operated by Rheinmetall Expal Munitions, a subsidiary…

An explosion at the Port of Barcelona killed one person and left another seriously injured on 21 January, Spanish emergency services have said. The incident in the northeastern Catalonia region…