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Underground gas tank explosion.

Luckily no one was hurt. The fire was believed to have been sparked by a discharge of static electricity as fuel was pumped from a tanker to an underground storage tank. Ap authorities are investigating an explosion in an underground tank at an upstate new york gas station that killed a worker. Emergency responders converged on the area.

Because the tank was unable to be shut down it was vented. The blast occurred in an underground service line to a production warehouse from a carbon dioxide storage tank according to officials. Lori wolfe the herald dispatch an area where an underground gas tank exploded on monday april 15 2019 is cordoned off at the sunoco at winchester avenue and 22nd street in ashland kentucky. State police say the explosion happened friday.

Staff was able evacuate the station before the. A worker was killed after an underground fuel tank explosion at a speedway gas station friday afternoon on upper front street in the town of dickinson. The national electric al code nfpa 70 lists or defines hazardous gases vapors and dusts by groups. Equipment must be approved not only for the class of location but also for the ignitable or combustible properties of the specific gas vapor dust or fiber that will be present.

Storage tanks used for gasoline.