The terms “chemical accident” refer to an event resulting in the release of a substance

or substances hazardous to human health and/or the environment in the short or long
term. Such events include fires, explosions, leakages or releases of toxic or hazardous
materials that can cause people illness, injury, disability or death.)

[edit] Chemical industry

• October 4, 2010: Alumina plant accident. Ajka, Kolontár, Devecser and several
other settlements, Hungary. The dam of Magyar Aluminium Zrt.'s red mud
reservoir broke and the escaping highly toxic and alkaline (~pH 13) sludge
flooded several settlements. There were nine victims including a little girl and
hundreds of injuries (mostly chemical burns).etc

Here are list of some of the industrial accidents

[edit] Construction industry

• April 27, 1978: Willow Island disaster. A cooling tower for a power plant under
construction in Willow Island, West Virginia collapsed, killing 51 construction
workers. The cause was attributed to placing loads on recently poured concrete
before it had cured sufficiently to withstand the loads. It is thought to be the
largest construction accident in United States history.[6]

[edit] Defense industry

• July 17, 1944: Port Chicago Disaster. A munitions explosion that killed 320
people occurred at the Port Chicago Naval Magazine in Port Chicago, California.

[edit] Energy industry

• April 20, 2010: Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. 11 oil
platform workers died in an explosion and fire that resulted in a massive oil spill
in the Gulf of Mexico, considered the largest offshore spill in U.S. history.[18]

[edit] Food industry

• February 7, 2008: The 2008 Georgia sugar refinery explosion in Port
Wentworth, Georgia, United States. Thirteen people were killed and 42 injured
when a dust explosion occurred at a sugar refinery owned by Imperial Sugar.

[edit] Manufacturing
 • April 18, 2007: Qinghe Special Steel Corporation disaster. A ladle holding
molten steel separated from the overhead iron rail, fell, tipped, and killed 32
workers, injuring another 6.

[edit] Mining industry

• January 30, 2000: Baia Mare cyanide spill took place in Baia Mare, Romania.
The accident, called the worst environmental disaster in Europe since Chernobyl,
was a release of 100,000 tons of cyanide contaminated water by a Aurul mining
company due to reservoir broke into the rivers Someş, Tisza and Danube.
Although no human fatalities were reported, the leak killed up to 80% of aquatic
life of some of the affected rivers.

1. An epidemic is when a disease spreads quickly through a population, infecting

a large percentage. Disease is spread by infection. When a person with a disease
passes it to a new person, they 'infect' that new person. Some diseases travel from
one person to the next very easily and the epidemic is very fast. For example, in
1919, Spainish Flu raced around the world killing maybe 20 million people in a
couple of years. Spainish flu was very very 'contagious' and could jump from one
person to the next very quickly. Sneezing projects the flu virus into the air and
then it's breathed in by another person who becomes infected. This is an air-borne
disease.

1. Other epidemics are slower. The AIDS virus cannot travel across the air in
sneezes, AIDS is passed when an infected person has sex with another person.
This is a sexually transmitted disease. So the AIDS epidemic travels more slowly.

1. Infected insects often trasmit disease by biting people and giving them the
disease.

2.