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General Background Information About Buncefield fire and explosion. |
Occurred on 11th December 2005 at the Hertfordshire Oil Terminal in Hemel Hempstead. The Oil terminal handled around 2.37 million metric tonnes of oil products a year |
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What was the cause of the incident ? |
The safeguards of the tank that was being pumped with unleaded fuel failed and staff did not realise the tank was overflowing |
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What did the explosion measure on the Richter scale ? |
It measured 2.4 |
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What are some of the social Impacts? |
2000 homes were evacuated... 43 people suffered related injuries... 76% people said their home was damaged in some way |
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What are some of the economic impacts? |
By the end of 2007 there were 900 Buncefield related redundancies... 95 benefit claims... Rationed fuel at Heathrow as 30% was supplied to them |
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What are some of the environmental impacts? |
In May 2006, three valley water had detected the chemical PFOS in the water supply close to Bruncefield |
