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INCIDENT LOG
ROAD/RAIL/AIR INCIDENTS
Date Location Vehicle Type Substance Details Source
1/5/20 Andover, Massachusetts, US road tanker oil Fire broke out in four dump trucks, one oil tanker at Deloury Industries construction facility; dump trucks CBS blocked route to tanker for fire crews responding to blaze; site unoccupied at the time; investigation underway Boston
2/5/20 Obalende, Lagos, Nigeria road tanker gasoline Road tanker with 45,000 litres gasoline overturned on arrival to discharge at filling station; fire broke out, Premium killing one, injuring 16; fire crews were on scene quickly, managed to prevent blaze from spreading Times
3/5/20 Knox county, freight train isophthalic 11 cars of 91-car BNSF train derailed near Edina; one car with granular acid caught fire; crews spent three KTVO Missouri, US acid hours dealing with blaze; other cars not carrying hazmat; no injuries reported; cause unclear as yet Tribune
4/5/20 Witbank, MP, South Africa
5/5/20 Lagos, Nigeria road tanker ammonia Road tanker carrying ammonia was in collision with another truck on N12; leaking ammonia spread over area, Sowetan affecting residents, other drivers held up by crash; evacuations ordered, road closed Live
road tankers kerosene, Two tankers, one with kerosene, one with diesel, were in head-on collision on notorious Odetola Bridge; diesel diesel tanker spilt load; police blamed bad driving; fire crews managed to prevent fire breaking out Vanguard
8/5/20 Ibadan, Oyo, Nigeria road tanker diesel Road tanker lost control on downhill road in Moniya, skidded and crashed into another vehicle; explosion, Business fire killed two, several more injured; substantial damage to nearby shops; fire chief blamed brake failure Day
12/5/20 Adani, Gujarat, India road tanker unknown Chemical tanker, after dropping cargo at port, crashed into parked truck on Surat-Hazira highway; crash Times of sparked fire in front of tanker; driver was trapped and died in the fire India
15/5/20 Toba Tek Singh, road tanker gasoline Road tanker with 48,000 litres gasoline overturned on M-III, reportedly due to driver falling asleep; some The Int’l
Punjab, Pakistan gasoline leaked to road, remainder was transferred; highway closed; driver, helper suffered minor injuries News
15/5/20 Roanoke, Virginia, US road tanker hexane Fire broke out during loading of Chemsolv tank truck at industrial facility; fire officials said various flammable liquids were involved, and hexane was being transferred at the time; severe damage to plant WFXR
MARINE/INLAND WATERWAY INCIDENTS
Date Location Vessel Substance Details Source
24/4/20 nr Kazan, Volgoneft gasoil Product tanker (built 1975), with 3,736 tonnes gasoil, ran aground in Kama River estuary; no breach of hull FleetMon Tatarstan, Russia 249 reported; vessel refloated two days later, sailed to Ulyanovsk for inspection
11/5/20 Belawan, Medan, Indonesia
15/5/20 Lome, Togo
20/5/20 nr Wuhu, Anhui, China Jag Leela crude oil Fire broke out after explosion in aft section of tanker (105,500 dwt, 1999) under repair; fire spread to crude Shipwreck oil in cargo tanks, causing dense black smoke, and to other ships in the yard; at least 22 workers injured Log
Gods Love unknown Explosion, fire aboard Nigeria-registered tanker killed one crew, injured several more; 1973-built vessel was FleetMon originally a containership and may have been converted; not clear whether the ship was in cargo
Qiu Feng 6 — Explosion aboard inland chemical tanker (2018) injured two crew; video showed four crew apparently cleaning tank when blast happened; three jumped into Yangtze, were rescued; fire spread Spash 247
MISCELLANEOUS INCIDENTS
Date Location Plant type Substance Details
1/5/20 St Louis,
chemical sulphuric Fire crews responded to report of sulphuric acid leak and explosion at Henkel Corp plant; all workers Missouri, US plant acid evacuated; fire department said unintentional introduction of moisture into process caused violent reaction Source
Fox News
4/5/20 Sabiñánigo, chemical chlorine Three workers were treated for exposure to chlorine after reaction during mixing at Orache Desinfección Industrial Huesca, Spain plant plant; shelter-in-place order for entire town; roads closed until chorine cloud dissipated Fire World
7/5/20 Visakhapatnam, chemical styrene At least 11 people died after leak of styrene vapour, presumably due to auto-polymerisation in storage tank, at Deccan AP, India plant LG Polymers plant; hundreds more sickened; thousands evacuated from nearby villages; investigation opened Herald
15/5/20 Lauenberg, chemical resins One employee was injured when fire broke out at Worlée-Chemie plant; large plume of dark smoke hung over Hazmat SH, Germany plant town for hours; responders managed to prevent fire spreading to large storage tanks Nation
15/5/20 Venice, Italy chemical unknown Large fire broke out in unidentified chemical plant in Porto Marghera, emitting plume of black smoke; plant health authorities said there was no off-site impact, though shelter-in-place had been ordered DW