Approximately 2 kg of propane were released into the atmosphere at an LPG filling centre (Seveso installation) and designed to supply customers throughout the region.A tank car was moved while it was being loaded, causing a gas leak. Positioned at[...]
At 6.10 am, a wood dust explosion rocked a panel manufacturing plant in a 360 m³ silo containing 30 m³ of dry chips (silo A). The accident occurred while the reservoir was being emptied, just 5 days after an earlier[...]
An explosion occurred at 2.58 am in a wood panel manufacturing plant in a dry wood chip refiner used in the chip sorting and preparation sector. This unit dries, refines and sorts chips (cyclofilter, sifting screen) to supply two 360[...]
As part of the ongoing dismantling taking place in a lubricant depot, a subcontractor disassembled aerial pipes connected to the depot network as well as their concrete foundations. During these operations, the removal of one of the blocks led to[...]
Around 2 pm, inside a company storing fireworks (net weight: 300 tonnes / gross weight: 2,000 tonnes), a fire broke out during an unloading operation on a 40-foot container subsequent to the mishandling of a box filled with fireworks rockets.[...]
In a chemical plant, a fire broke out at 12.59 pm in a substation supplying a hydrazine hydrate unit. An electrical fault on a cooling water pump caused a generalised short circuit on an electrical tower. The fire alarm was[...]
A leak detected late on a pipeline (10'', 2 bar) serving a port petrochemical site along the Juliana canal was the caused 3 000 m³ (2500 tonnes) of methyl tertiary butyl ether (MTBE) to be released thus polluting soil and[...]
In the bitumen storage and loading/unloading unit at a refinery, a 12-m high tank installed on the site for 30 years featuring a floating roof, a capacity of 1,200 m3 and a heating coil, suddenly ruptured at the level of[...]
The gas pipe connecting Zeebrugge to the Franco-Belgian border exploded violently in an industrial zone. Around 8.30 am, a leak was detected by the hissing sound made by the escaping, still odourless at that stage. The emergency services arrived for[...]
Analyses carried out on the residual water at the discharge point of a waste water treatment plant at a chemical plant manufacturing a basic organic product revealed that the thresholds of the standards stipulated by prefectural order had been significantly[...]
