Risks: Fires, Fatalities and Catastrophes in 2022


Dec 2022: Firefighters called to Port Townsend Paper Mill after vault fire discovered

Dec 2022: Roseburg Reaches Agreement in Principle to Settle Majority of Mill Fire Claims

Dec 2022: B.C. court rules Tolko must pay $343,000 cost of fighting 2016 wildfire

Dec 2022: Graphic Packaging spill into Kalamazoo River in Michigan triggers state and city violations

Nov 2022: Man injured in accident at PCA mill in DeRidder

Nov 2022: More Northern California victims who lost homes in Mill Fire sue lumber mill owner

Nov 2022: Fire at Ahlstrom facility in Connecticut

Nov 2022: Firefighters respond to Sofidel facility in Circleville, Ohio

Nov 2022: Large fire at Sonoco Hartsville waste paper facility

Nov 2022: Firefighters respond to fire at Cascades Moulded Pulp plant in Indiana

Nov 2022: No injuries reported in fire at International Paper facility

Oct 2022: Graphic Packaging mill put on lockdown after man drives through security gate

Oct 2022: Firefighters battle fire at WestRock facility in Kentucky

Oct 2022: Michigan governor declares state of emergency for Menominee County due to Resolute fire

Oct 2022: Upper Peninsula Resolute paper mill fire still burning after 4 days

Oct 2022: Woman life-flighted after hand gets caught in machine at Mondi facility

Oct 2022: Large blaze at Resolute facility

Oct 2022: Fire at Quad Graphics facility quickly contained

Oct 2022: Firefighters from 4 departments battle fire at LP facility

Sep 2022: Containerboard Manufacturer PCA Will Pay $2.5 Million for Violating Clean Air Act at Louisiana Mill

Sep 2022: Report: Fatal scaffold collapse at Domtar facility in Quebec's Eastern Townships due to design flaw

Sep 2022: Blaze at Louisiana Pacific mill

Sep 2022: Sofidel Employee Flown to Critical Care Hospital After Hand Stuck in Machine

Sep 2022: Man whose mom died in Mill Fire in Northern California, other families sue Roseburg plant

Sep 2022: Roseburg investigating possible failure of ash-spraying machinery as source of Mill Fire

Sep 2022: No one injured at incident at Pixelle Stevens Point paper mill

Sep 2022: Crane operator loses case involving fatal accident at former NewPage mill in Rumford, Maine

Aug 2022: Four injured from steam release at WestRock Roanoke Rapids paper mill

Aug 2022: Worker killed at Ahlstrom-Munksjo Kaukauna, Wisconsin paper mill identified

Aug 2022: OSHA investigating workplace death at Ahlstrom-Munksjo Kaukauna, Wisconsin paper mill

Jul 2022: Canton, N.C. Evergreen paper mill files federal civil complaint in 2020 deadly fire

Jul 2022: Fire at Louisiana-Pacific facility

Jul 2022: Fire at Greif facility

Jul 2022: Huge blaze at Birmingham Smurfit Kappa recycling plant was started accidentally by disposable barbecue

Jul 2022: Conifex Timber delays restart of Mackenzie power plant due to turbine damage

Jul 2022: Fire at Twin Rivers mill

Jul 2022: Nearly 70 fire crews work overnight to put out Combined Locks, Wisconsin warehouse fire

Jul 2022: Update: Fire at Mercer Stendal Pulp Mill

Jun 2022: Fire at Georgia-Pacific facility

Jun 2022: Twin Rivers paper machine fire causes mill workers to evacuate

Jun 2022: Fatal incident at Metsä Fibre Kemi bioproduct mill site

Jun 2022: Worker dies at Mercer mill

Jun 2022: Early morning fire contained at Weyerhaeuser facility

Jun 2022: Ammonia leak reported at McKinley paper mill

Jun 2022: Fire breaks out at Ox Industries Paperboard Mill

Jun 2022: Fire at International Paper facility

Jun 2022: Multiple agencies respond to WestRock paper mill fire in West Point

Jun 2022: Smurfit Kappa's Birmingham plant resumes some work after massive fire

Jun 2022: Two workers injured at Weyerhaeuser Kenora mill

Jun 2022: Independent contractor killed at Mercer Peace River Pulp Mill

Jun 2022: Worker killed after becoming pinned between box trailer and PCA loading dock

Jun 2022: No damage after small fire at ND Paper Old Town Mill

Jun 2022: Fire extinguished at UFP Industries facility in Granger, Indiana

May 2022: Hazmat situation at Pixelle Stevens Point mill

May 2022: Tolko announces plans after fire

May 2022: No WorkSafe orders issued to Howe Sound Pulp & Paper Port Mellon mill after fume incident

May 2022: 4 West Fraser Cariboo Pulp and Paper contractors sent to hospital after vapor exposure

May 2022: Fire at Tolko's High Prairie division

May 2022: Part of Valmet's factory in Jyväskylä, Finland is beginning to return to normal operations

May 2022: Fire causes major damage at Resolute sawmill in Ignace

May 2022: Fire crews called to WestRock packaging in Cedar Rapids

May 2022: Fire at International Paper in Prattville under investigation

May 2022: Eight Howe Sound Pulp & Paper Mill staff taken to hospital

May 2022: Fire crews respond to fire at WestRock facility

May 2022: Graphic Packaging settles lawsuit over workplace accident

May 2022: Fire breaks out at Valmet's Rautpohja facility in Finland

May 2022: Fire at Interfor facility

Apr 2022: Firemen douse fire at First Quality Tissue facility

Apr 2022: Pine Bluff officials investigate fire at Twin Rivers Paper Mill

Apr 2022: Fire At International Paper In Cantonment

Apr 2022: Firefighters tackle blaze at West Fraser's wood panel manufacturing plant near Inverness

Apr 2022: Worker dead following incident at Resolute Forest Products sawmill

Mar 2022: Update: Fatal accident at Pactiv Evergreen facility in Arkansas

Mar 2022: Second fire at Port Townsend Paper mill under investigation

Mar 2022: Fatal accident at Pactiv Evergreen Packaging facility in Arkansas

Mar 2022: Fire at Pixelle mill in Ohio

Mar 2022: Dunn Paper mill back in operation after fire

Feb 2022: Fire damages equipment at DS Smith Riceboro, Georgia paper mill

Feb 2022: No injuries reported following fire at Weyerhaeuser facility

Feb 2022: No injuries reported in Dunn Paper fire

Feb 2022: Statement on tiger attack fatality at PT Satria Perkasa Agung

Feb 2022: Two killed, 15 injured as paper mill catches fire in Pakistan

Feb 2022: Investigation under way after forestry worker crushed to death

Jan 2022: Fatal accident at Valmet's project site in Sweden

Jan 2022: Blaze extinguished at Port Townsend Paper mill

Jan 2022: Teenager arrested after huge fire in Frogmore Paper Mill

Jan 2022: Early morning fire breaks out at Brownville, N.Y. Neenah paper mill

Jan 2022: Four fire departments respond to ND Paper mill in Biron, Wisconsin

Jan 2022: Overnight Fire Being Investigated at Pixelle Mill

Jan 2022: Cancer-causing compound detected at South Carolina New-Indy paper mill

Jan 2022: One person dies at paper mill medical incident

Jan 2022: Officials recover body from Georgia-Pacific retention pond

Jan 2022: County police, fire rescue recovering body from Georgia Pacific facility retention pond

Jan 2022: Verso Corp. to pay nearly $250,000 in settlement for 2020 fish kill on Escanaba River in Michigan

Jan 2022: No injuries, minimal damage in Georgia Pacific fire in Taylorsville, Mississippi