Risks: Fires, Fatalities and Catastrophes in 2025

Jul 2025: Employees evacuated from Smurfit Westrock Joplin, Missouri facility following machine fire
Jul 2025: Fire damages Proctor & Gamble Green Bay, Wisconsin paper mill; firefighter taken to hospital
Jul 2025: Suspect in Smurfit Westrock facility officer-involved shooting released from hospital, in jail
Jul 2025: OSHA fines contractor for fall at Sappi Somerset Mill in Skowhegan, Maine
Jul 2025: Two-alarm fire at southwest Charlotte, N.C. Sonoco recycling center
Jul 2025: 9-year-old girl dies after being left in hot car by mother during work shift at USG Corp. facility near Galena Park, Texas
Jul 2025: Situation Under Control After Fire Department Deployment at Metsä Group's Kreuzau Plant - Production Continues Without Disruption
Jul 2025: Western Forest Products Inc. Announces Fire Damages Columbia Vista Division Sawmill
Jun 2025: Logs from overturned truck collide with train in northern Ontario near Interfor site
Jun 2025: Smurfit Westrock employee shot, injured in El Paso, Texas; suspect shot by police
Jun 2025: Nobody hurt in fire at Domtar facility in Rothschild, Wisconsin
Jun 2025: Multiple fire departments respond to fire at sawmill in Alapaha, Georgia
Jun 2025: Smurfit Westrock sued for $75 million after work accident in the U.S.
Jun 2025: Storage facility a 'total loss' after fire at Domtar paper mill in Calhoun, Tennessee
Jun 2025: Reactor blasts at Nagpur pulp factory; 1 worker killed, 5 injured
Jun 2025: Multiple fire departments responded to blaze at Georgia Pacific in Olympia
Jun 2025: Morning fire breaks out at Pixelle Specialty Solutions York County paper mill
Jun 2025: 30-year-old man drowns in industrial incident at Domtar Crofton Mill
Jun 2025: Fire Reported at Pixelle Chillicothe, Ohio Paper Mill, Multiple Crews Responded
Jun 2025: International Paper Mill fire extinguished in Georgetown, South Carolina
May 2025: Two injured after paper machine at Ahlstrom Rhinelander mill experiences equipment failure
Apr 2025: Seized Weyerhaeuser MDF oil pump causes fire
Apr 2025: Alberta employer Weyerhaeuser facing 13 charges in worker's death
Apr 2025: Heavy smoke pours from Richmond, Virginia Sonoco facility after machine catches fire
Apr 2025: Workers evacuate after fire at Smurfit Westrock facility
Mar 2025: Truck driver dead as strong winds overturn tractor trailer at Pratt Industries property in Valparaiso, Indiana
Mar 2025: Fire at Felix Schoeller Paper in Pulaski, New York
Mar 2025: Fire crews clear the fire scene at Pratt Industries Shreveport, Louisiana facility
Mar 2025: Appleton, Wisconsin paper and manufacturing company confirms employee death from workplace accident
Mar 2025: Firefighters tackle blaze at Sappi Westbrook, Maine paper mill
Mar 2025: Fire at Graphic Packaging facility in Ohio extinguished
Mar 2025: Fire at PaperWorks facility causes evacuation
Mar 2025: First Quality workers escape injury after roof section falls at Dryden, Ontario mill
Mar 2025: Crews Battle Fire at West Fraser's Riegelwood, NC, Sawmill
Feb 2025: Fire crews put out fire at Georgia-Pacific Zachary, Louisiana paper mill; cause not determined
Feb 2025: Multiple departments respond to fire at PotlatchDeltic Forsyth Township, Michigan lumber mill
Feb 2025: 2 workers taken to hospital after fire breaks out at P&G facility in Oxnard, California
Feb 2025: Fire crews return to extinguish fire at Weyerhaeuser Plant in Columbia Falls, Montana
Feb 2025: Greater Cincinnati, Ohio paper facility catches fire, multiple fire departments respond
Feb 2025: Explosion at Columbia Falls, Montana Weyerhaeuser facility causes extensive damage
Feb 2025: Sludge-like material in Fox River coming from ongoing spill from McKinley Paper mill
Feb 2025: Final insurance settlement for Norske Skog Saugbrugs
Feb 2025: International Paper blames temperature-related malfunction for sulfur smell in Georgetown, South Carolina
Feb 2025: Contractor's fall at Sappi Somerset, Maine Mill under federal investigation
Jan 2025: Louisiana-Pacific fined more than $15,000 for environmental violations
Jan 2025: Firefighters work 11 hours to extinguish Sappi wood yard fire
Jan 2025: Weyerhaeuser's Longview lumber mill gets another big fine for stormwater pollution
Jan 2025: Contractor seriously injured in Sappi mill accident
Jan 2025: CDC releases report on large blastomycosis outbreak at Billerud Michigan paper mill
Jan 2025: Putnam, Florida firefighters battle fire at Georgia-Pacific facility
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