Seveso disaster

When

10 Jul 1976

Kind

Industrial accident

Coordinates

45.65° N, 9.15° E

Description

industrial accident

Deaths

0

Cause

thermal runaway

Toxic chemical leak in Italy in 1976

The Seveso disaster was an industrial accident that occurred around 12:37 PM on 10 July 1976, in a small chemical manufacturing plant approximately 20 kilometres (12 mi) north of Milan in the Lombardy region of Italy.

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• Wikidata: air, rail, road, mining and industrial accidentsWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Seveso disaster: An explosion at a chemical plant in Seveso, Italy, causes extensive pollution to a large area in the neighborhood of Milan”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “In der chemischen Fabrik Icmesa im italienischen Meda, 20 Kilometer nördlich von Mailand, ereignet sich das Sevesounglück, eine Chemiekatastrophe”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “catastrophe de Seveso en Italie : un nuage de dioxine se répand sur cette région de Lombardie, évacuée dans l’urgence”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “en el municipio de Seveso (Italia) sucede un accidente industrial que causa numerosos daños: se le conoce con el nombre de desastre de Seveso”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page