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January, 2009 - Fire while filling portable container!

December, 2008 - Static Electric Discharge Causes Fire

November, 2008 - Laboratory Refrigerator Explosions – Electrical Classification

April, 2008 - Gasoline pipeline damaged by construction causes fire

December, 2007 - Oil Tank Fire Caused by Static Discharge

September, 2007 - Hot Work Permits

July, 2007 - Fire Caused by Hose Repaired with Duct Tape!

April, 2007 - Mr. Potato Head Is Down!

March, 2007 - Instrumentation - Can you be fooled by it?

September, 2006 - Overfilling Tanks - What happened?

June, 2006 - Is this valve open, or closed?

July, 2005 - Piper Alpha Oil Platform Destroyed

November, 2004 - Unapproved procedure change = fire

September, 2004 - Overflow + Ignition Source = Tank Farm Fire

July, 2002 - The seal that didn't perform

November, 2001 - Trace quantities of flammables can cause an event like this!