USA, Seattle: Three Seattle City Light employees were injured by an explosion at the East Pine Street substation caused by a blown transformer, which knocked out power to nearly 10,000 customers across the Capitol Hill, Madison Park and Madrona neighbourhoods of Seattle Wednesday afternoon.
USA, Iowa: Alliant Energy crews are still cleaning up after a transformer exploded Thursday afternoon at a substation in North Liberty, Iowa, shutting off power to 4,200 customers in the North Liberty area for several hours.
USA, New Jersey: A transformer explosion on Monday caused fire that ripped through the main post office in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Authorities confirmed that the transformer blew up underground, outside the post office on the Kirkpatrick Street, reports CBS New York.
Australia, Perth: Regulators have issued new safety measures after last week’s power transformer explosion at the busy Morley Galleria shopping mall in Perth which killed two people and left two with severe burns.
