April 30-A CSX train carrying fracked crude oil derails and bursts into flames in downtown Lynchburg, VA, spilling oil into the James River and forcing hundreds to evacuate. [video]
April 30- Two oil workers die and nine others are injured in an explosion at a RKI Exploration and Production well site in West Texas. Loving County Sheriff Billy Hopper says the workers were operating a rig that separates production fluids, such as oil from water.
April 27- Zachary Buckles, 20, of Glasgow, Mont, dies at a Continental well site 5 miles south of Williston, ND of apparent H2S gas exposure. This is the 38th oilfield death investigated by OSHA since fiscal year 2010.
April 25-Eight families sue a natural gas company for personal injuries they attribute to fracking operations in AK.
April 25-Four people are injured, due to a lightning strike a Southwestern Energy gas drilling site in Faulkner County, AK.
April 23-Around 20 garbage cans full of illegally dumped oil filter socks are been found north of Crosby, ND. 
April 23-An explosion at a Williams natural gas processing plant Opal, Wyo. causes the evacuation of the town.  
April 22-A six-person Dallas jury awards a middle-class north Texas ranching family nearly $3 million from Aruba Petroleum Inc. company whose drilling caused years of sickness, killed pets and livestock, and forced them out of their home for months.
April 18-500 tons of soil is removed after a “significant leak” is discovered at a frack pond operated by Range Resources.  There are questions as to whether or the DEP was properly notified. 
April 10-Chevron is cited with nine violations for their February gas well explosion in Greene County, PA including one count of refusing to allow state investigators onto the property, in violation of oil and gas laws.
April 9-High pressure causes approximately 650 barrels of oil and 450 barrels of brine to spill from a tank on an Oasis Petroleum site in ND.
April 9-A substance used to give natural gas its odor leaks from a dehydration station in Wyoming County, PA. [video]
April 7-A 37-year-old worker is found dead at a Noble Energy pump station in WV.
April 7-An illegally dumped “frack sock” (a filter used in the process that can be radioactive) is discovered  along the road in Dunn County, ND. [video]
April 5-Six families are evacuated after a 12-inch pipeline operated by Williams explodes. The cause of the explosion and fire is thought to be shifting earth. [video]
April 5- David Zamora, 43 from Victoria Texas, is crushed to death by a piece of heavy equipment at the Rice Energy Big Foot Pad Smith Township, Belmont County, OH.
April 4- A compressed natural gas (CNG) vehicle explosion kills 59-year-old Gerald Throw, of Sobieski, Wis. and injures passenger, 29-year-old Jose Perez of Green Bay. Sheriff's officials say a box-style truck was slowing to make a turn into a parking lot of Ace Manufacturing Inc. when its load shifted, potentially compromising the truck's compressed natural gas fuel system. That fuel system detonated.
April 2-A semi-truck tips over in Marshall County, WV spilling hazardous material on the road. The road is closed for nearly 12 hours.  Reports indicate several drums containing poisonous liquid spilled onto the road. A HAZMAT crew was called to work to clean up the mess. The driver of the truck was not endorsed to carry this kind of dangerous material and citations are pending, according to deputies.
April 2- True Oil Llc is cited by the DEP for violation of 78.55 - No Control and Disposal/PPC plan or failure to implement preparedness, prevention, and contingency (PPC) plan in West Mahoning Twp., Indiana County, PA.  The PPC plan involves the transfer of drilling waste.
April 1- Atlas Resources Llc spills and “unknown amount” of brine that is carried out of the secondary containment because of “[r]ecent precipitation events.”  A vegetation kill is noted.

Feb 26-A gas well blowout in Acadia, LA has forced the evacuation of 40 people within 1 ½ mile of the well.  It will several days before the well is capped. [video]
Feb 20-Cabot is cited with “Operator shall prevent gas and other fluids from lower formations from entering fresh groundwater. Failure to operate and construct the well to ensure the integrity of the well is maintained and health, safety, environment, and property are protected” in Dimock, PA.
Feb 18-XTO is cited for “Improper casing to protect fresh groundwater Inadequate number of centralizers installed on surface casing. Spacing was 200', whereas regulations dictate that spacing should be no more than 150' apart” at a well in Forward Twp., Butler County, PA.
Feb 15-Flames from a well fire in Greene County, PA go out 3 days after exploding.  One worker is injured and other is missing and presumed dead.
Feb 13-More than 600 barrels of wastewater spilled at an Oasis Petroleum well site in Williams County, ND.
Feb 13-A Whiting Petroleum Corp oil well in North Dakota is leaking between 2,000 and 3,000 gallons per day of fracking fluid after a blowout preventer failed.  Some material reaches a nearby stream.  It take several days to control.
Feb 13-A NiSource gas pipeline explosion in KY injures two and levels two homes.  A nearby barns and cars are set ablaze.  20 homes near the 60 ft. crater were evacuated in the middle of the night [video]
Feb 13-1,000 gallons of crude oil spill when 21 rail cars crash in Westmoreland County, PA [video]
Feb 12-A gas well in Greene County, PA explodes.  One worker is injured and other is missing and presumed dead.  The fire burns for days.  [video]
Feb 12- Oil sprays onto agricultural land next to a Zavanna site in ND.
Feb 12- Approximately 35 barrels of oil spills from a Newfield Production Co. site in McKenzie County, ND.  Some of the oil had sprays onto the snow and a small frozen pond near the site.

Jan 31-A Canadian National Railway Co train carrying fuel oil and other hazardous materials derails and spills in southeast Mississippi, forcing the evacuation of nearby residents.
Jan 31-A Tulsa, Okla., is fined $1 million for dumping 4,700 gallons of crude oil into a tributary of the North Platte River.  An independent contractor was regularly draining produced water into the creek. Company officials were aware of the discharges, but did not report them to the authorities, the investigation found.
Jan 27- 1,000 gallons of crude oil spills into the Delaware River from a Monroe Energy LLC site in Delaware County, PA [video]
Jan 27-A tank battery farm explodes in OK. [video]
Jan 27-A tank battery farm explodes in OJan 25-Flames shoot 200-300 meters in the air when a pipeline operated by TransCanada explodes South of Winnipeg.
Jan 24- Daniel Rice, 33, dies when his wastewater truck explodes in Knoxville, AR.  It appears methane gas had built up in the tank which triggered the explosion.  The explosion is felt as far away as a mile and a half from the scene.
Jan 23-Flame shoot 100 ft. in the air when a gas well explodes in Boston Heights, OH.  Workers on the site told witnesses "they heard something weird so they ran for their lives."  [video]
Jan 22-A pipeline ruptures spilling 1.6 million litres of wastewater in Alberta.
Jan 21-Old Glory Energy is cited for an improperly lined pit in Clarion County, PA
Jan 20-Train cars carrying crude oil and sand derailed on a Philadelphia bridge early this morning, leaving the cars intact but leaning over the Schuylkill River.  Sources suggest that the oil was from the Bakken Shale.
Jan 18-Wastewater pits flood after heavy rains and snow in Kennetcook, Canada.
Jan 16-The Brown family in Texas, blame 32 earthquakes in the past few months that have damaged their property on nearby waste injection wells. [video]
Jan 9-A worker is flown to a Youngstown, OH hospital with a head injury he suffered while clearing ice from a pipeline.
Jan 9-A federal judge imposes more than $280,000 in financial penalties on a Marcellus Shale surveying firm and a foreman who were caught using 19 undocumented Mexican workers on a project in northeastern Pennsylvania.
Jan 7-Train cars carrying crude oil and propane derail and explode causing the evacuation of about 150 residents in New Brunswick.
Jan 6-The Williams Natural Gas compressor station catches fire in West Windsor, NY. [video]
Jan 2-A tank explosion at a JB Oil & Gas site in Tyler County, WV send one worker to the hospital and sends fluid onto the ground.

Dec 30-A 106-car train carrying Bakken Shale crude oil crashes setting off explosions and a fire that burns for more than 24 hours in ND.
Dec 27- Howard Drilling Inc spills residual waste at a site in the Allegheny National Forest.
Dec 23- James Burgess, 60, dies after a truck owned by a Texas oil and gas company struck him in Washington County, PA.  The driver and the passenger were drunk and fled the scene on foot leaving the pedestrian to die. [video]
Dec 21- A lightning strike is suspected of triggering a fire at a gas well in Somervell County, TX.
Dec 20- BP and Chevron are accused of dumping toxic radioactive waste into the swamps of Louisiana.
Dec 19- A Washington County, PA Judge orders Red Oak Water Transfer to produce all photographs of an alleged fracking wastewater spill.
Dec 16- On its way to a drilling sight, a truck spills hexamine on U.S. 35 in WV closing all four lanes of the road.
Dec 11-A line froze on Cabot Oil and Gas site in Susquehanna County, PA causing a spill.  It was never reported to the DEP by Cabot.
Dec 9-Wastewater spills on a RE Gas Development (Rex Energy) pad in Jackson Twp, Butler County, PA.
Dec 6-Internal emails and documents expose a leak of 21,000 gallons of flowback water from Marcellus Shale drilling operations in Washington County, and the subsequent “cover up,” according to a motion filed in Washington County Common Pleas Court on December 6, 3013.  The well was operated by Range Resources.
Dec 6-A natural gas storage tank exploded in Texas. [video]
Dec 5-After an accident, workers on the Millennium pipeline in the Sothern Tier of New York vent millions of gallons of gas from a 10-mile-long stretch of 30-inch pipeline into the atmosphere forcing a local family to evacuate their home.

Nov 29-A truck carrying water from a gas-drilling site flipped into a creek near the Dallas Pike Methodist Church in Ohio County, WV. Officials said that the driver was taken to a hospital for injuries.
Nov 29-30-inch pipeline ruptured causing an explosion near Hughesville, MO.  The fireball could be seen for 30 miles.  Three homes were evacuated. [video]
Nov 25-A pipeline leak in Montana released 17,000 barrels of brine, polluting more than a mile of a creek in the Badlands of southwest North Dakota.
Nov 14-A gas line explodes half-a-mile from an Ellis County school. A child in the school said, “We were all crying in my class.”  Families are evacuated from a 1 ½- 3 mile radius.  They will be out of their homes and businesses for 24-36 hours. [video]
Nov 7-A saltwater tank exploded in North Dakota, spilling about 2,700 barrels of wastewater.

Late Sept- More than 200 barrels of fracking fluid, oil and water blew out of a traditional oil well in NM due to pressure from a nearby Encana fracking operation.  The fluid created a stream of liquid that reached a half-mile in length and crossed the mail road. [video]
Sept 29-A farmer discovers a pipeline break that spilled 20,600 barrels of Bakken crude in his wheat  field.  The cleanup will take years and about $4M.
Sept 28-Five combustible containers at the La Grange Salt Water Disposal Plant in TX explode after being struck by lightening. 
Sept 28-A high-pressure gas well explosion in Salem, WV throws a worker 50 feet, causing him to be flown to the hospital in a helicopter. [video]
Sept 27-A tanker truck to bursts into flames at a Rex Energy well site near Carrollton, OH during a condensate transfer.
Sept 25-Pa Gen Energy Co Llc spills 20 gal of flowback fluid into the ground in Lycoming County, PA.
Sept 25- Interstate Gas Mkt Inc fails to plug a well upon abandonment in Toby Twp., Clarion County, PA
Sept 21-A fire at the Blue Racer Midstream natural gas processing plant at Natrium, WV closes route 2 for about 8 hours. About 25 people from 11 homes are evacuated for about 90 minutes early Saturday.
Sept 21-A gas pipeline suddenly ruptured and exploded near the Newton/Jasper County line in TX.
Sept 21-Around 1 am, a Dominion Gas Plant near Kent, WV explodes.  Nearby residents are evacuated and Rt. 2 was closed.
Sept 16-A Danlin Industries plant that supplies chemicals to the oil and gas industry in Thomas, OK explodes and burned for over 9 hours. [video]
Sept 11-12- Massive flooding in Colorado cause at least 11 ‘notable’ oil spills totaling 34,524 gallons of oil.
Sept 11-Report on Prairie Public about the death of 21-year old Dustin Bergsing on a frack site in North Dakota. [audio]
Sept 10-PA’s  Attorney General Kathleen files criminal charges against XTO (a subsidiary of ExxonMobil) for illegally discharging more than 50,000 gallons of toxic wastewater from a Marcellus Shale gas well site in Penn Township, Lycoming County.

Aug 31- Kevin Figaniak, a 21-year-old Wheeling Jesuit University student, was beaten to death by Craig Tyler Peacock and Jarrett Mathis Chandler.  Peacock and Chandler are from out of the area and are reported to be working in the natural gas industry.
Aug 30- A Chevron pipeline leaked an unknown quantity of natural gas in the Gulf of Mexico near Pascagoula, Mississippi.
Aug 29- Jesse A. Grimsley, 31, of Shevlin, Minn, was killed in a Sheehan Pipeline Construction accident near Steubenville, OH.  According to the sheriff’s office, Grimsley had filed a daily equipment check noting "brakes will not hold on hill.”  Sheehan Pipeline Construction is based in Tulsa, Okla.
Aug 29- Michael Guesman of Cortland admits in U.S. District Court in Cleveland that his former boss at Hardrock Excavating, Ben Lupo ordered him to dump brine waste on 24 separate occasions into the Youngstown sewer system.
Aug 29-An oil rig exploded in Lavaca County, TX, triggering a massive fire [video]
Aug 27-Caller discovers tanker truck dumping brine water on the roadway and running into Clearfork Creek near Grayville, OH
Aug 23-A breached frack pond operated by Berry Petroleum flooded nearby residential property in Gardendale, TX.
Aug 22-Residents in Chartiers Twp., PA complained of burning eyes, throat nausea and a metallic taste their mouths after another flaring incident at MarkWest’s natural gas processing plant.  This is at least the third flaring incident at the plant in the past six weeks.
Aug 22-A pipe manufacturer in the Marcellus region spilled 5,000 gallons of sulfuric acid into the Shenango River.  
Aug 21-Chesapeake Appalachia is cited with not reporting two pollution incidents in Beaver County, PA.  Soil samples and eye-witness accounts suggest petroleum products and flowback wastewater spilled onto the ground. 
Aug 20-A 16-inch natural gas pipeline exploded in OK sending flames 200 ft. in the air and damaging a barn.
Aug 20-A semi-truck hauling for oil and gas wells in the area struck and killed 57-year-old Dan Wilson of Weirton, WV along U.S. 22.  The truck company was out of Indiana. [video]
Aug 20-West Virginia environmental regulators cited MarkWest Energy for causing a fishkill in Rocky Run, a tributary of Fish Creek after one of their pipelines ruptured.  Minnows, smallmouth bass and other species of fish died from the spill.
Aug 16-A Texas longhorn steer was killed by exposure to poisonous hydrogen sulphide (H2S) gas from a pipeline leak in Alberta.
Aug 16- An Antero Resources site in Harrison County, WV caught ablaze sending three workers to the hospital, two via airlift.
Aug 16- Records were released indicating that OSHA cited Central Environmental Services LLC for the death of Brian Hopkins caused by an explosion at an EQT Corp. well pad in Taylor County, WV.
Aug 13-A landslide ruptured a MarkWest Energy pipeline in Wetzel County, WV causing a leak of an unidentified, but potentially explosive, liquid into a nearby stream.
Aug 13-Around 80 families were evacuated when a pipeline carrying gas byproducts ethane and propane somehow ruptured, caught fire, and exploded in IL.
Aug 10-A 24-year old was killed when a block from a New Star Energy fell and crushed him near Highvale, Alberta. [video]
Aug 7- A joint study from the U.S. Geological Survey and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service found that a Nami Resources Company’s fracking fluid spill in Kentucky in 2007 likely caused the widespread death of several types of fish. 
Aug 6-A driver was cleared of any wrongdoing  for failing to stop after his 18-wheeler carrying fracking wastewater crushed a 14-year-old boy in Fort Worth, TX on April 24, 2013.  Deston Bibbs died as a result of his injuries.
Aug 3-In Tioga County, PA, Swepi Lp spilled 5 barrels of produced water from hole in the coil tubing unit onto the containment and pad. Holes were discovered in the containment liner.
Aug 1-A truck hauling brine collided with two cars in Vienna Township, OH.  Injuries were reported.  
Aug 1-In Lawrence County, PA, a Rockwater Energy Solutions truck carrying ethylene glycol to nearby fracking operations crashed spilling 265 gallons of the toxin poison in a field.  Unfamiliarity with the road was cited as one of the causes of the accident.
Aug 1-Two families in TX file a class-action lawsuit claiming that fracking caused damage to their real estate and homes.

June 26-Two county workers suffered minor injuries and at least 34 cars were damaged when a section of roadway sunk as a result of a Sunoco Pipeline LP project in Beaver County.
July 25- In Susquehanna County, PA, Chief Oil and Gas spilled an estimated 20 barrels of oil due to a valve that was left open.  It then leaked onto the ground through a hole in the plastic lining.  
June 25-A caller to the NRC reported a fire at an oil well near Ravenna, OH.  There were 150 gallons of oil released.
June 25-A 30-inch transmission pipeline exploded in Enon, LA causing the evacuation of 55 people.
June 22-A water tuck owned by JB Oil and Gas ran a stop sign killing a mother and her 14 year old daughter. 
June 21-PVR’s Chapin Glycol Dehydration plant in Monroe Twp accidentally discharged in the atmosphere.  This is the 3rd such event since the PVR Chapin plant went operational in late spring of 2012. [video] 
June 21 -32-year-old Greg Peacock, died from 3rd degree burns he suffered during an explosion at a well pad.  He left behind a two year-old son and fiancee.
June 20-50 homes were evacuated when a gas pipeline containing 1% deadly hydrogen sulfide ruptured southwest of Calgary after debris from a flood struck the pipeline.   
June 18-A 30-inch transmission line in Louisiana ruptured, sparking a natural gas explosion and a fire.
June 13- A gas line ruptured underneath the Ohio River near Bellaire spewing gas out of the water between OH and WV [video]
June 12 -A truck at a well in MI backed into a high-pressure line causing an explosion that knocked people over in a nearby home.  
June 12 -A Williams cracker plant in LA exploded killing 2 and injuring 100.  This is the same type of plant that is proposed for Beaver County.
June 7-Investigations determined that Vintage Oil illegally dumped formation fluids and fracking fluids into an unlined pit in CA [video]
June 4- PA DEP fined PVR Marcellus Gas Gathering LLC of Williamsport, Lycoming County, $150,000 for multiple and continuing violations of the Pennsylvania Clean Streams Law, the Dam Safety and Encroachments Act and various related environmental regulations, including sediment discharges into High Quality and Exceptional Value streams during construction of the Coal Mountain pipeline in four Lycoming County townships
June 4-Wastewate hauler Harch was ordered to suspend operations in OH after evidence was found that the company was illegally disposing waste in a private pond [audio]
June 3- SWEPI LP was cited in for “failure to properly store, transport, process or dispose of a residual waste” at their West 1 OG Well in Slippery Rock Twp.
June 3- RE Gas Dev LLC (Rex Energy) was cited for “discharge of industrial waste to waters of Commonwealth without a permit” at their Warner Unit 1H in Lancaster Twp.
June 1-A pipeline operated by a Texas-based oil company has leaked 9.5 million litres of industrial waste water in Canada.
June 1-A caller to the NRC reported that a water tanker truck was dumping into Indian Creek in Tyler County, WV.

April 30- 9,000 gallons of wastewater spilled onto a miniature horse farm and into the farmhouse basement and garage from a Carrizo well site.  Fluid spilled from another Carrizo well site in Wyoming County in March [video]
April 27-A considerable amount of natural gas and crude oil residue blew out of an Atlas Energy pipeline Lafayette Twp., Bradford County.
April 27-More than 100 barrels of oil-based drilling mud spilled into Cadron Creek after a truck accident in WV.
April 17- MarkWest natural gas operations in Butler and Washington Counties were cited by the EPA for being in violation of federal clean air laws.
April 11-Two men died after an explosion at Eureka Hunter Pipeline operations near Wick, W.Va
April 4-An explosion at a natural gas compressor station in Logan County, OK forced the evacuation of homes within one square mile of the incident.