Other incidents recorded in the United States, with what happened, the contributing factors and the lessons, each with its sources.
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A Daily Mail video report published on 10 November 2026 states that a massive explosion occurred at Hoover Dam, with black smoke and fire visible inside the turbine house. The video headline is the only description of the event in the source; the article text...
On 23 November 2025 a fire broke out at electrical switchgear at the Dresden power generation facility in New York state, USA, owned by Greenidge Generation LLC, a subsidiary of Greenidge Generation Holdings Inc. The facility is a 106 MW natural gas plant...
On Tuesday 29 May 2018, during the evening rush hour, building security ordered the evacuation of the PPG Tower at 1 PPG Place in Downtown Pittsburgh after a fire was found in a transformer on the 41st floor, in a mechanical equipment room. The fire was first...
The record behind each entry: the manufacturer, integrator and operator, root cause, failure mode, downtime, losses and every source.
A fire occurred at one of the three towers at the Ivanpah concentrated solar power plant in the Mojave desert. Metal pipes in the tower were scorched and melted. The fire service suggested misaligned mirrors may have concentrated sunlight on the wrong part of...
An explosion and fire occurred in the basement of 811 Wilshire Boulevard, a commercial and office building in downtown Los Angeles, at about 10:10 pm on Thursday 20 August 2015. Firefighters, reported as 160 or 161 depending on the source, brought the fire...
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