On February 3, 2023, a freight train carrying highly toxic chemicals from the Norfolk Southern Railway derailed on the border between Ohio and Pennsylvania, USA, near the village of East Palestine.
A saltpeter explosion at a port in Texas
It all started with the cargo steamer Grankan, which was loading at the port of Texas City. For five days, port cargo handlers filled the ship with a familiar commodity – ammonium nitrate with a total weight of 2,300 tons.
Man-made disaster in the Gulf of Mexico
The Deepwater Horizon ultra-deepwater oil platform, built by the Korean company Hyundai in 2000, was launched on February 23, 2001.
Accident at Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant
The Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant accident is one of the largest accidents in the history of nuclear energy that occurred on March 28, 1979
Fires in the United States
The Great Chicago Fire was a fire in the city of Chicago, USA, that lasted from October 8 to 10, 1871. The fire killed about 300 people and destroyed thousands of buildings.