One man is dead and a teenage girl is severely injured after a house explosion in McCall, Idaho. Fire officials are working to determine the cause of the blast that happened near Fairview Drive around 4:15 yesterday. A fire followed the explosion.
Friends are holding a fundraiser for Charlie Shearer, 55, who was injured in an explosion at JCS Enterprise Trailer Repair in DeKalb last month.
The number of grain-dust explosions that occurred in the U.S. increased in 2018, but injuries and fatalities declined, according to a newly released annual report by Purdue University researchers. Kingsly Ambrose, an associate professor of agricultural and biological engineering is the report’s lead author again this year. Highly combustible, grain dust ignited by a spark […]
Southern states continue to have the highest fire death rates in the nation, according to data compiled by the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA). The NFPA began tracking fire deaths rates -defined as deaths per million population, in 1981. Fire death rates have been consistently highest in southern states since that time. State Fire Marshals track […]
An explosion at JCS Enterprise Trailer Repair in DeKalb, GA Injured a worker who sustained burns over 50 percent of his body. He was transported to the burn unit at Grady Memorial Hospital. Two other people who tried to help him were also taken to the hospital. Explosion attorney Eric Hageman says investigators should take a […]
Propane is the suspected source of a house explosion that injured one woman in Casco Township, MI. Chiron Thompson suffered severe burns and was rushed to the Burn and Wound Center at Bronson Methodist Hospital in Kalamazoo. Ms. Thompson told local media that when the blast occurred she was thrown across the kitchen and then […]
A propane leak is the expected source of a house explosion in Sullivan, IL that killed Jared Schrock, 20, and injured a 16-year-old girl who was transported to an area hospital where she is listed in critical condition, according to news reports. Mr. Schrock suffered blunt force trauma to the head and chest and was […]
A gas leak was the source of a house explosion in Pontiac, MI that injured one person on February 2, 2019, Consumers Energy said yesterday. A man who was inside the house was blown out when it exploded around 11:30 p.m. He was transported from the scene, at the corner of Irwin Avenue and South Boulevard, […]
This year’s theme of National Burn Awareness Week (February 4 – 9, 2019) is preventing scald burns at home. The American Burn Association (ABA), which created the annual awareness campaign, has compiled information to help prevent these painful injuries which most affect children. Sixty-two percent of people treated at burn centers for scald injuries are […]
Texas regulators ordered Atmos Energy to inspect gas pipeline couplings installed throughout North Texas after faulty installation of a coupling was linked to a gas explosion that destroyed an occupied home in Irving last year. In the hours that preceded the blast, the family smelled gas and asked an Atmos crew working on a gas […]