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    Flixborough is a village and civil parish in North Lincolnshire, England. The population at the 2011 census was 1,664. It is near the River Trent, 3 miles...
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    The Flixborough disaster was an explosion at a chemical plant close to the village of Flixborough, North Lincolnshire, England, on Saturday, 1 June 1974...
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    readers to the harmful effects of DDT, a potent insecticide. The 1974 Flixborough disaster in the United Kingdom resulted in 28 deaths, as well as damage...
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  • b and c were measured at the given temperature T and pressure P. The Flixborough disaster, a major industrial accident caused by an explosion of cyclohexane...
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    East Butterwick, East Halton, Eastoft, Elsham, Epworth, Epworth Turbary Flixborough, Fockerby, Ferriby Sluice Gainsthorpe, Garthorpe, Goxhill, Grasby, Gunness...
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    disaster 1960 Nedelin catastrophe 1969 Soviet N1 rocket explosion 1974 Flixborough disaster 1977 Iri station explosion 1988 PEPCON disaster, Henderson,...
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  • present. On 1 June 1974, a pipe failure at the Nypro chemical plant in Flixborough, England, caused a large release of flammable cyclohexane vapour, which...
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    Leicestershire Saxby East Norton Stretton en le Field Lincolnshire Bigby Flixborough High Toynton Minting Allington Northamptonshire East Carlton Woodend...
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  • warehouse at the port exploded. In the European Union, incidents such as the Flixborough disaster and the Seveso disaster led to legislation such as the Seveso...
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  • industrial accidents: 1970 propane vapor cloud explosion in Port Hudson Flixborough disaster Phillips disaster of 1989 in Pasadena, Texas Damage observed...
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  • supported by psychologist Hans Eysenck; sociologist Marcello Truzzi; the Flixborough explosion in June 1974 and Lesley Castleton née Brennan from Weelsby...
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  • Engineers (IChemE) at Teesside Polytechnic. Coming shortly after the Flixborough disaster, the course was fully booked, as were ones in the next few years...
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  • on the offshore oil and gas industry can be compared with those the Flixborough disaster had on the onshore chemical and petroleum process industry in...
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    (retailer) have their headquarters on the Normanby Enterprise Park, in Flixborough off the B1430. Further south on the Foxhills Industrial Estate towards...
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    aristocrats: the environmental archaeology of an Anglo-Saxon Estate Centre at Flixborough, North Lincolnshire, UK. Oxbow Books, 2007. Godfrey, John. "The Double...
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    Counsel to the judicial inquiry into an explosion at a chemical plant at Flixborough in 1974 which killed 28 people. In 1977, when still at the Bar, he rose...
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    certainly the biggest such explosion in the United Kingdom since the 1974 Flixborough disaster. The flames had been extinguished by the afternoon of 13 December...
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  • centre, Alkborough, Appleby, Burton upon Stather, Coleby, Dragonby, Flixborough, Flixborough Ind Estate, Foxhills Ind Estate, Frodingham, Gunness, High Risby...
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    parallel to the script used is the inscription in the lead plate from Flixborough, dated to the 8th or 9th century. The gold strip may have been originally...
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    injured 50. June 1, 1974: Flixborough disaster, England. An explosion at a chemical plant near the village of Flixborough killed 28 people and seriously...
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    regulations is to reduce the risks of potential major accidents, such as the Flixborough disaster, that are associated with the handling of hazardous substances...
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    Downstream of Keadby the river progressively widens, passing Amcotts and Flixborough to reach Burton upon Stather and finally Trent Falls. At this point,...
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    first millennium AD: Anglo–Saxon in its wider context. Excavations at Flixborough Volume 4. Oxbow Books. Oxford. 2007. 194p. Sherman (Heidi Michelle)....
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    The motorway bypass around Brigg was discussed for many years, but the Flixborough explosion gave it more importance, and was built three years later in...
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    shipping remains further down the river at Gunness Wharf, Grove Wharf and Flixborough Wharf, which has direct rail links. This leads to some to argue that...
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    company ordered a large consignment of coal from Poland to be delivered to Flixborough, Lincolnshire, and spoke to every haulage company it had ever used to...
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    Meakin. He was originally offered a site acquired by the Lysaght's at Flixborough on the River Trent, but pointed out that the geological strata were not...
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    family there. Sir Edmund Anderson, son of Edward Anderson, was born in Flixborough in Lincolnshire c. 1530. He received the first part of his education...
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  • changes are a recipe for disaster. An eminent example of this is the Flixborough explosion, where improvised changes involving the bypassing of a stage...
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    north-west from Scunthorpe, and on the west bank of the River Trent facing Flixborough on the east bank. The 2001 Census recorded a population of 219 for the...
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