The U.S. averages one petro­chemical incident every 4 days

A FedEx facility in DeKalb County was evacuated early Thursday morning after a chemical spill, authorities said. At around 7:30 a.m., firefighters...Learn More

On Saturday, three train cars derailed near Wyoming Avenue at approximately 8 p.m., CSX wrote in a statement. One of the cars...Learn More

Three people were injured Friday when a fire broke out at a storage terminal in Galena Park, according to the Harris County...Learn More

A hazmat situation Monday sent employees home early from Rochester Midland Corporation on Paragon Drive. Officials said a 275-gallon tank of nitric...Learn More

According to a press release from the Williston Fire Department (WFD), at approximately 6:24 p.m., staffers with the WFD, the McKenzie County...Learn More

A spill of firefighting foam has been detected in three southern West Virginia waterways, and potential downstream intakes have been notified, regulators...Learn More

Contractors with Grumman's corporate successor, Northrop Grumman, discovered six 55-gallon drums roughly seven feet underground as they drilled a well Thursday to...Learn More

Two employees of Phillips 66 were injured in a fire at one of the oil company’s refineries in the Texas Panhandle on...Learn More

The Environmental Protection Agency has identified potentially dangerous levels of toxic chemicals in several new vapor samples taken near a Union Pacific...Learn More

A Shell spokesperson said the flare, which first appeared Friday, will continue into the week as the energy company recovers from a power outage....Learn More

The Iowa Department of Natural Resources (DNR) is investigating a liquid fertilizer spill into the East Nishnabotna River out the outskirts of...Learn More

Officials are warning Batavia residents to stay away from Mahoney Creek after a foam spill was discovered earlier this week. The foam...Learn More

A no-contact advisory along a stretch of the Kalamazoo River was issued Wednesday afternoon after Pfizer notified the city of Kalamazoo of...Learn More

An elementary school in Bristol Township was evacuated Wednesday morning after an intermittent chemical odor was detected in the Croydon section of...Learn More

Norfolk Southern freight train derailment in eastern Pennsylvania...Learn More

The Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy, or EGLE, said they are monitoring a small chemical spill that occurred earlier...Learn More

The Saline County Office of Emergency Management responded to a chemical spill Sunday morning. According to OEM officials, the chemical spill was...Learn More

Fifty-four people were sent to the hospital after a hazmat situation was reported at the Sharp Packing Solutions building on the 7400...Learn More

Reports operations require flaring at Beaumont Complex site, Texas source: community alert the Beaumont Complex houses a 619,024 barrel-per-day oil refinery....Learn More

The cause of the fire is unknown. Officials reported the building and what it holds inside cost about $1.5 million. Vico Plastics...Learn More

At approximately 2:30 p.m. on Friday, February 9, an event occurred at the Phillips 66 Billings Refinery resulting in visible smoke. Emergency...Learn More

One car was said to be carrying small plastic beads, and they spilled into the river. One car is said have leaked...Learn More

Large amounts of fire suppression foam seeped onto nearby parking lots, around fences, posts, over cars, and eventually on a portion of...Learn More

The incident was reported at 8:15 a.m. in the school at 85 St. Josephs Ave. between Innis Street and Charles Avenue, according...Learn More

Heavy flaring seen across Southwest Louisiana just after midday was from Westlake Petrochem near La. 108 and Beglis Parkway. Spokesman Joe Andrepont...Learn More

Berwyn fire officials say three individuals arrived at the Physicians Immediate Care on Oak Park Avenue and Cermak Road covered in some...Learn More

Plant manager Nathan Ferrington said that there was an electrical fire on the upper floors of the facility. Ferrington said that emergency...Learn More

Burlington measured 1,4-dioxane levels of 545 parts per billion in a sample it took Tuesday morning from its South Burlington Wastewater Treatment...Learn More

A hazardous chemical spill shut down Interstate 80 for several hours. Yesterday morning, a single-axle tanker truck carrying liquid anhydrous ammonia crashed...Learn More

Hamilton fire crews responded…to Eagle Chemicals for a spill of 2,000 gallons of nitric acid. Fire Chief Thomas Eickelberger said no one...Learn More

An operational issue tied to cold weather at the TPC petrochemical plant in Houston caused a brief flaring Wednesday morning. The flaring...Learn More

Multiple crews from different agencies all over Medina County responded to a chemical spill Monday afternoon at a plant in Seville. According...Learn More

According to a press release from AFRD, Energizer personnel spoke with fire crews at the scene and notified them they had a...Learn More

Victoria County emergency officials first learned of the spill on Jan. 4 after they investigated following an anonymous phone call to authorities....Learn More

The Air District received 6 air quality complaints related to flaring at #Chevron Refinery on 12/31. The Air District’s investigation of this...Learn More

A fire and explosion at a hazardous waste plant in Bridgeport, Connecticut, forced people to evacuate their homes. Neighbors heard the explosion...Learn More

A power outage at the TPC Group manufacturing plant in southeast Houston on Saturday caused flaring and smoke at the facility, according...Learn More

The Bay Area Air Quality Management District has issued four notices of violation to the Martinez Refining Company over a flaring event...Learn More

Rutherford County Emergency Management says the county’s 911 center received a call just after 1 p.m. on Dec. 15 regarding a fire...Learn More

Firefighters on Wednesday were battling a fire at Marathon Petroleum's (MPC.N) 593,000 barrel-per-day Galveston Bay Refinery in Texas City, Texas, a company...Learn More

A strong odor was reported Friday afternoon in the area of Chevron’s Richmond refinery, city officials and the Bay Area Air Quality...Learn More

All northbound lanes on I-285 in southwest Atlanta were blocked for hours due to a chemical on the road surface. Delays were...Learn More

Eight employees were evacuated from Altivia after a shelter-in-place order was issued for La Porte residents because of a chemical emergency Monday...Learn More

The CSX train derailed around 2:30 p.m. Wednesday near Livingston, a remote town with about 200 people in Rockcastle County. Residents were...Learn More

“Marathon Petroleum responders extinguished a fire early this morning [November 19] at the company’s Martinez renewable fuels facility. One employee was injured...Learn More

A collision between Norfolk Southern and CSX trains led to a derailment and fire this morning at CSX’s Howells Yard in northwest...Learn More

‘On arrival we noticed heavy smoke coming from the east side of the facility where our units from Port Neches, Groves and...Learn More

At 04:15hrs Company 5 was dispatched to the 300 blk of Enterprise Dr for a reported chemical fire. Chief 5 arrived to...Learn More

The Houston Fire Department said a plastic recycling plant north of downtown caught fire Saturday morning. The fire has since been contained....Learn More

The LOTTE Chemical Plant is conducting ground flaring, according to Calcasieu OHSEP director Dick Gremillon. 7NEWS’ meteorologists are weighing in saying the...Learn More

Several businesses were forced to evacuate due to a chemical fire at a supply store in Sandy on Friday afternoon. The blaze...Learn More

More than 30 Los Angeles Live employees were evaluated by paramedics after a 55-gallon drum containing a cleaning chemical spilled, causing them...Learn More

The EPA is monitoring the air quality in Reading, Pennsylvania, for signs of problems after a massive fire at an old chemical...Learn More

An explosion triggered a large fire at a chemical plant in Shepherd, Texas, sending massive plumes of black smoke into the sky....Learn More

Petaluma firefighters and hazmat workers stopped an early morning chemical spill from reaching local waterways Monday morning. Firefighters responded to a report...Learn More

According to a press release from the city manager, upon initial investigation it was discovered that a rupture of a chemical tank...Learn More

Several roads in the midtown area were closed for hours Sunday night after an anhydrous ammonia leak was reported near Creighton University....Learn More

Fighters responded to an explosion at Arxada, a specialty chemicals company on McKee Road, shortly after 1 a.m. Sunday. The explosion caused...Learn More

Business resumed in Midland's Michigan Operations Industrial Park after authorities and site emergency personnel responded to a chemical release there on Saturday....Learn More

Original estimates believed that two thousand gallons of the chemical had spilled, but subsequent updates published on the company’s website later revealed...Learn More

Pemex (PEMX.UL) shut down the 270,000 barrel-per-day crude distillation unit (CDU) at its Deer Park, Texas, refinery on Monday because a process...Learn More

Around 1:36 p.m., the Solvay Fire Department was called to the facility at 24 Industrial Dr. off Willis Avenue for a report...Learn More

A chemical spill in Berea Wednesday evening posed potential danger at a produce company site, but first responders managed to clear the...Learn More

A stretch of Eastbound Interstate 10 near Willcox was closed for much of Tuesday after a morning collision between two semis killed...Learn More

Contra Costa County’s health department is investigating the emission of coke dust at the Martinez Refining Company on Friday, meanwhile neighbors to...Learn More

The derailment happened overnight on Saturday, Sept. 23 at about 1:39 a.m. near Baltimore Avenue, leaving railcars stuck on the road and...Learn More

Five people died from exposure to a chemical that spilled after a semitruck overturned in central Illinois, according to autopsies conducted Monday….The...Learn More

Fire broke out at a manufacturing plant in Alabama which is the largest producer of “photogenic backdrops” are produced. Backdrops are often...Learn More

The spill happened early Sunday morning at the Florida East Coast Railyard and the evection area was along Philips Highway between University...Learn More

Lincoln County residents were forced to evacuate due to an explosion that occurred at Bailey Yard on Thursday afternoon. City of North...Learn More

Friday morning’s leak was of a chemical called oleum, city officials said. The EPA says oleum is a regulated toxic substance. The...Learn More

On Wednesday night, fire crews fought a fire at a chemical manufacturing plant in Washington County, PA. County dispatch confirmed that a...Learn More

BASF TotalEnergies Petrochemicals in Port Arthur is still shut down following a fire and the collapse of a tower at the refinery...Learn More

The Cleveland Division of Fire responded to the scene of a chemical spill that took place inside the Nippon Paint Plant on...Learn More

A mandatory evacuation was issued for part of Garyville Friday as emergency responders and hazmat crews work to contain a chemical release...Learn More

A chemical release sent a large yellow plume into the air above an industrial park in New Albany on Thursday for the...Learn More

A worker was injured early Monday when an explosion set a paint manufacturing plant in the Dallas suburbs ablaze and shot a...Learn More

Responders were dispatched on Sunday afternoon to a facility that manufactures and recycles plastic pipes. By then, flames had ignited a storage...Learn More

A tractor trailer hauling chemicals caught fire Thursday evening near East Ridge, triggering a major hazmat response and the evacuation of residents,...Learn More

Dozens of cars are damaged and hundreds of propane tanks are scattered around a neighborhood near Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport after an...Learn More

A CSX freight train derailed in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania on Monday morning. According to officials, the crash happened at about 4:50 a.m....Learn More

A fire at a Louisiana chemical plant triggered explosions that shook homes several miles away and sent flames and smoke billowing into...Learn More

An oil refinery in Martinez coughed up toxic dust on Tuesday, and hazmat teams responded to the scene where material was “visible...Learn More

Around 8:30 p.m. on Monday, while many celebrated with fireworks, the Springfield Fire Department responded to the 3M factory on Chestnut Expressway...Learn More

EGLE said Friday morning that the agency can’t yet say what the spilled substance is, the volume of the discharge or the...Learn More

It happened around 1:45 p.m. in one of the research towers at the Texas Children's Hospital on Fannin St. Emergency responders with...Learn More

A shelter-in-place has been lifted for Texas City residents after an odor complaint prompted an investigation Tuesday afternoon. "An all clear has...Learn More

Approximately 1,000 gallons of wastewater contaminated by the chemical trivalent chromium was released Tuesday into Coldwater Creek, an Environmental Protection Agency release...Learn More

One person has been seriously injured in a chemical spill near Dunedin. Emergency services were called to Dukes Road in Mosgiel shortly...Learn More

A bridge that crosses the Yellowstone River in Montana collapsed early Saturday, plunging portions of a freight train carrying hazardous materials into...Learn More

A North Charleston community is pushing for better communication after a small amount of phosphorous was released into the air from a...Learn More

A hydroplaning vehicle Tuesday morning on Interstate 75 set off a "series of reactions and collisions" that resulted in the major roadway...Learn More

On Monday, June 19, The Laredo Fire Department responded to a reported chemical spill in the 300 block of Crossroads Avenue. Firefighters...Learn More

A chemical reaction caused a fire at a Streamwood manufacturing site Monday morning. At about 9:12 a.m., the Streamwood Fire Department responded...Learn More

Emergency personnel dealt with a chemical fire and hazardous materials incident Thursday night at a Slate Belt business. Fire crews were called...Learn More

About 300 gallons of hydrochloric acid spilled outside near 102nd and J Streets Wednesday morning around 11 a.m. Omaha Fire Captain Brian...Learn More

Columbia County Dispatch Center received reports of the fire just after 2 p.m. at the Columbia County Recycling and Waste Processing Facility....Learn More

Valero Energy Corp said crews are responding to a fire on Wednesday within its 290,000 barrel-per-day Corpus Christi West refinery in Texas....Learn More

Marathon Petroleum has confirmed one employee's death in the wake of a fire that broke out at its Texas City refinery on...Learn More

The Lynchburg Fire Marshal’s Office has been monitoring a release of a chemical from a holding tank at Cathcart Rail (formerly Buncher...Learn More