Landfill Gas Explosions
The Loscoe Landfill Gas Explosion: When Weather Turned Deadly at a Derbyshire Landfill
How a sudden drop in atmospheric pressure triggered a catastrophic landfill gas explosion that destroyed a home and changed landfill safety forever On a seemingly ordinary day in March 1986, the residents of Loscoe, a small village in Derbyshire, had no idea they were living above a ticking time bomb. What happened next would become […]
Notorious Landfill Gas Explosions During the 1980s in the UK and the US
Landfill gas explosions taught the UK waste management industry the very real dangers of methane gas through hard experience. The industry learnt from a series of accidents, some of which are described below, plus a disaster in the water industry. That disaster was the Abbeystead Disaster, which was caused by a methane explosion in a […]
