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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 /> Internal spark, asphalt tank <br /> Garden City, GA March 2004 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 July 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 /> Joliet, 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 />