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-� -- <br />Asphalt Plant Explosions & Fires <br />Submitted by Neighbors Against the Asphalt Plant 11/29/10 <br />Google search —"asphalt plant" and explosion — 52,200 hits <br />Place Date Details <br />Oxnard, CA Dec. 2007 Roads & railway closed, one person <br />injured <br />Marion, IA June 2009 <br />Garden City, GA March 2004 Internal spark, asphalt tank <br />exploded, cause unknown <br />Relight a natural gas burner, several <br />Portland, OR March 2004 pieces of steel thrown hundreds of <br />feet (hundreds of pounds each) <br />Kings Mountain, NC Nov. 2005 One person killed <br />Kansas City, KA May 2010 Two people covered and burned <br />with hot asphalt <br />Sinking Spring, PA Oct. 2009 Electrical panel fire <br />Rosewood, SC Nov. 2005 Spark from a welder's torch <br />Calgary, Alberta luly 2010 Fire crews pulled back to a safe <br />distance and let fire burn out <br />Los Lunas, TX July 2001 Started at conveyor belt <br />Chicago, IL Jan. 2006 One worker killed, cause unknown <br />Benicia, CA June 2003 Cause unknown <br />Louisville, KY July 2008 Cause unknown <br />Lakin, KA June 2008 Loose hose sprayed oil on burner <br />Redmond, CA Nov. 1996 Superheated rock ignited oil & <br />diesel fuel <br />Douglasville, GA Feb. 2009 Cause unknown <br />Framingham, MA July 2003 Spark from welder's tools, one <br />person killed <br />loliet, IL Sept. 1997 Explosion and fire, caused by pump <br />leak <br />Carthage, OH May 2009 Cause unknown <br />Ellijay, GA April 2000 Two people killed <br />San Jose, CA July 2010 Fire <br />Submittal by Neighbors Against the Asphalt Plant November 29, 2010 page 3 of 4 <br />