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Mines can now reduce the risk of post-blast ground falls with DRIFT software, which helps engineers to create more effective blast designs. DRIFT was developed by the US National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) Mining Program to help reduce the risk of ground falls, which remain a serious threat to the safety of miners....
Britain’s energy regulator Ofgem has asked National Grid for an urgent report into the power cut which caused chaos across the country on the evening of August 9. National Grid, said the power cuts happened after a rare and unusual issue which had led to the almost simultaneous loss of output from two generators....
Five Russian nuclear engineers have died and three injured following a rocket engine explosion on an offshore platform in the White Sea, northern Russia. The blast, which occurred on August 8, caused a spike in radiation levels in the nearby city of Severodvinsk....
71 people died and 59 others injured when an overturned oil tanker exploded in Tanzania on August 10. The explosion happened after people began to siphon petrol and collect spilt fuel shortly after the tanker had crashed on a main road near Morogoro, 200 km (124 miles) west of Tanzania’s commercial capital, Dar es Salaam....
A study by the Reuters news agency shows that approvals for new coal mine construction in China have surged in 2019. China’s energy regulator gave the go-ahead to build 141 million tonnes of new annual coal production capacity from January to June, compared to 25 million tonnes over the whole of last year....
On July 30, three people were reported injured after an explosion at a coatings plant in Alabama.Firefighters said the incident, at the Hot Metal Coatings facility in Midfield, was a dust explosion, which ignited the plant’s ceiling insulation....
Seven people were killed in a coal mine gas explosion in southwest China's Guizhou Province, local authorities said on August 2. The explosion happened at a coal mine in Liangyan Town near the city of Bijie. ...
Thousands have been evacuated from a Siberian town after an ammunition depot on a military base caught fire, triggering huge explosions that sent shrapnel flying for miles around. One soldier was killed and at least seven other people have been injured, according to Russian state news agency TASS....
A natural gas pipeline belonging to Enbridge has exploded in Kentucky and killed one person. The blast occurred in the early hours of August 1, destroying railroad tracks and several homes in a nearby mobile home park where five people were hospitalised....
We are now seeking abstracts for the Hazardex 2020 Conference to be held on February 26 & 27 at the Majestic Hotel in Harrogate, North Yorkshire, UK....
Hazardex 2019 event review video
