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Imperial Sugar CEO John Sheptor said there may be “significant” penalties proposed when federal workplace safety regulators released their findings after investigating a dust explosion that killed 13 workers at a company sugar refinery.With the...
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AP, Kuwait City
A Kuwaiti oil official says a small explosion at one of the country’s oil refineries has killed one worker and injured another. Production was not affected.
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AP, Houston
A tank of sulfur caught fire Monday at a refinery and residents were urged to take precautions against the fumes, authorities said.
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AP, Houston
Four workers at a Houston refinery were injured when a tank of sulfur caught fire and released fumes.
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AP, Washington
An executive at Imperial Sugar Co. said Tuesday that he found conditions so bad at a Georgia sugar refinery prior to an explosion that killed 13 people that he...
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AP, Washington
An executive at Imperial Sugar Co. says he found conditions so bad at a Georgia sugar refinery prior to an explosion that killed 13 people that he recommended...
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The head of a sugar company blamed for a Georgia refinery explosion that killed 13 workers in February sought to shift fault back to the government Monday by calling...
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AP, Houston
Authorities say at least four people were been killed and six injured after the collapse of a crane at an industrial complex in Houston on Friday afternoon. A company...
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AP, Houston
At least five people have been hurt in the collapse of a crane at an industrial complex in Houston. The accident happened Friday afternoon. A company spokeswoman said...
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AP, Jesuit Bend
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AP, Port Wentworth
A wrecking ball is knocking down three towering storage silos damaged in a February explosion at the Imperial Sugar refinery near Savannah that killed 13 people.Crews...
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AP, Elk Point
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AP, Elk Point
A proposal to build the first new U.S. oil refinery in more than 30 years in this mostly agricultural corner of the Midwest is facing a make-or-break decision at the...
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AP, London
Workers returned to the Grangemouth refinery in central Scotland on Tuesday after a 48-hour strike that forced the closure of a major North Sea pipeline system.UNITE,...
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AP, Rincon
Days after the deadly explosion at the sugar refinery where her father worked, 9-year-old Morgan Seckinger went back to school _ smiling, as usual, with her long blond...
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AP, Augusta
The six workers who remain hospitalized after suffering horrific burns in a February sugar refinery explosion are showing marked improvement, doctors and family members...
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AP, Baghdad
Iraq’s Oil Ministry has signed a contract with the Colorado Industrial Construction Services Co. to help expand a refinery in Najaf, south of Baghdad, an official...
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AP, Baghdad
A brief power outage idled Iraq’s largest oil refinery Sunday, an official with the nation’s oil ministry said.The disruption lasted five hours and was the...
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A Najaf oil refinery expanded its production capacity Saturday by about 10,000 barrels per day, or roughly half of what it had producing.The refinery, about 100 miles...
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AP, Augusta
Another burn patient has died of injuries suffered in an explosion at a Georgia sugar refinery, bringing the death toll to 13.Six patients remain in critical condition...
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