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37 results found for '"Industrial accidents"' in Keywords.
Flixborough explosion (1974)
- Genre
- Interview; News report; Speech
David Rutherland(?) reports from the scene of the Flixborough Chemical plant explosion on Humberside (01/06/74). Includes interviews with unidentified eyewitnesses and workers. Also includes speech by...
Seveso chemical accident decontamination (1976)
- Genre
- Interview
Frank Jackman of British chemical engineering consultants Cremer Warner, on decontamination of Seveso, Italy after three towns were poisoned by dioxin dust from a chemical factory on 3/8/76. Interviewer not...
Seveso chemical accident (1976)
- Genre
- Interview; News report
Interview with Alex Warner, chemical pollution expert, on the cleaning up process in the Seveso disaster (10/07/76) - an industrial accident that occurred in a small chemical manufacturing plant at Seveso in...
Galveston explosion (1977)
- Genre
- News report; Interview
Roy Flores reports from the USA to Peter Sharp at IRN on an explosion in Galveston, Texas, where people were trapped inside a grain elevator. 10 people are reported dead and a further 23 injured. Emergency...
Power station accident (1978)
- Genre
- Interview
Interview with a male speaker (poss. Edmund Nuttall, civil engineer) on an accident which took place in the Littlebrook Dee power station in Kent, when a passenger hoist fell over a hundred feet, with men on...
Two rescued from Guernsey rig (1978)
- Genre
- Interview
An accident on the Orion oil rig off the coast of Guernsey saw its crew rescued by lifeboat and helicopter as winds of up to 60mph threatened to send the men into the sea. David Metcalfe was in charge of...
Shipham cadmium alert (1979)
- Genre
- Interview
2 interviews (with break in recording) on the cadmium alert at Shipham, Somerset in 1979.1. Environment Minister Denis Howell.2. John Thiery, Chairman of Shipham Parish Council.
Alexander Kielland oil rig disaster (1980)
- Genre
- News report; Interview; Press conference
Steve Wood reports on the capsizing of the Norwegian Alexander Kielland oil rig in the Ekofisk field in the North Sea. Includes details of the disaster, and of past accidents. Also archive interview with Red...
Oilman on Alexander Kielland oil rig disaster (1980)
- Genre
- Interview
Interview with Steven(?) Lederer(?) of The Oilman newsletter on North Sea oil rigs safety measures following the capsizing of the Norwegian Alexander Kielland oil rig in the Ekofisk field (27/03/80). Male...
Alexander Kielland oil rig disaster - Phillips Petroleum reaction (1980)
- Genre
- Interview
Interview with a Phillips Petroleum spokesman (not identified) about the capsizing of the Norwegian Alexander Kielland oil rig in the Ekofisk field (27/03/80) and possible causes. Male interviewer not...