Accidents and disasters
The View from our Hotel Window by TravelPod member theevans A Building on our Street in Prague by TravelPod member theevans Another on Our Street by TravelPod member theevans Art Nouveau Design by...
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On the night of March the 6th, 1987, the Townsend Thoresen car ferry "Herald of Free Enterprise" had just left the Belgian port of Zeebrugge, heading for Dover. Passengers were...
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The oxygen pipe entering the mine is 1.2 meters in diameter at first. Then there is a ventilator that works all the time. As you go deeper into the hole for another kilometre or so The pipe extends,...
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My name is Dima. I'm from the Lenin mine. I'll tell you about one situation. Since 2009 there's an order everywhere in the coal mine. We have 's-sections' of...
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I want to add something about the safety glasses. The company gave me glasses made of glass and after I was injured they gave me another set but said the injury was partially my fault. Only in October...
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Moments in NRC History: Three Mile Island On March 28, 1979, the United States suffered its most serious commercial nuclear power plant accident at the Three Mile Island facility near Harrisburg,...
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[Machine sounds] >> Cale Holmes: This major was, like, the only thing I'd ever really thought about doing, you know what I mean? I've been around this all of my life....
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THE FAMILY'S ELECTRIC RATE ASSISTANCE PROGRAM. THE RECESSION AND COLLAPSE OF THE HOUSING MARKET HAS PUT THE SQUEEZE ON COMPANIES THAT RENT HEAVY EQUIPMENT. FINDING THEY HAVE TO SELL SOME OF...
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Sound of rain. I had never been through anything like this in my life. When it got in the house it was like a “whoop whoop” sound, and then it went out of the roof and hit the neighbor’s house, and...
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POLICE ARE WORKING TO CLEAR A HEAD-IN COLLISION ACCIDENT THAT INJURED TWO HIGH STUDENTS AND KILLED A 59-YEAR-OLD CHESAPEAKE WOMAN. THE TEENAGERS FROM GRASSFIELD HIGH SCHOOL ARE IN THE HOSPITAL...
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