On a quiet Sunday morning in December 2005, residents of Hemel Hempstead awoke to an explosion that registered 2.4 on the Richter scale. At the Buncefield Oil Depot, a fuel tank overflowed unnoticed, ...

LONDON -- The flames are finally out at the enormous oil depot fire north of London, but they have set off a blaze of questions about safety at huge chemical and industrial plants around the country.

HEMEL HEMPSTEAD, England -- A fire raging at an oil depot in southern Britain sent toxic smoke as far away as France and caused jitters on the global oil market Monday as firefighters struggled into a ...

Three companies are facing potentially unlimited fines after being found guilty of health and safety breaches over the Buncefield oil depot explosion. TAV Engineering Ltd, of Guildford, Surrey, was ...