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July 7, 2009: Seventeen workers of a cracker factory were burnt to death in a fire accident in the Madurai district of Tamil Nadu.
July 20, 2009: Eighteen people were killed and 33 injured 23 of them seriously, when a fire swept through the unit which makes crackers at Namaskarichanpatti in Virudhunagar District.
July 28, 2009: Three workers were killed in the mishap at Anil Fireworks in Keezha Tiruthangal village in Sivakasi
August 3, 2009: One died in the accident at Classic Fireworks in Meenampatti in Sivakasi.
August 29, 2009: Two workers were killed and three others injured in a fire accident at a cracker unit in Sattur.
March 30, 2010: One person was killed and six others injured in a blast at a country-made cracker unit on South Car Street in Dindigul.
August 5, 2010: An eight-year-old boy was killed in a fire accident reportedly at an illegal cracker unit functioning in a house near Sivakasi.
August 10, 2010: Eight state government officials suffered severe burns when firecrackers stored at an illegal godown they raided exploded accidentally at D Durai samypuram village, near Sivakasi.
August 26, 2010: A fireworks employee was killed in a fire accident in a cracker unit near Virudhunagar.
October 17, 2010: Three persons were charred to death and three others suffered burns when a godown of a cracker manufacturing unit at Ellappan Pettai village, near Cuddalore.
January 21, 2011: Eight workers were charred to death and sixteen, including five women, were injured in an explosion that took place at a fireworks unit near Virudhunagar.
March 22, 2011: Crackers worth lakhs of rupees were destroyed in a fire that broke out in a godown at A Lakshmiapuram, near Sivakasi.
June 5, 2011: A woman worker was killed and another injured in a fire accident at a cracker unit near Sattur.
August 6, 2011: Six women workers were killed in an accident following an explosion that took place in a fireworks factory near Sivakasi.
Oct 3, 2011: Two workers were killed in an explosion that took place in a fireworks factory near Sattur.
December 28, 2011: Four workers were killed on the spot and two others injured in an explosion at a cracker-manufacturing unit near Sivakasi.
February 3, 2012: A worker was injured in a fire accident at a fireworks unit in Sevalpatti on Friday.
Feb 28, 2012: Two labourers of a firecracker-manufacturing unit, who were seriously injured in a blast died at a private hospital in Madurai.
March 7, 2012: A blast at a fireworks unit in Sivakasi claimed the life of one worker and left another seriously injured. The incident occurred at National Paper Caps in Aiyanar Colony.
May 10, 2012: A 70-year-old man was burnt to death in an explosion at a fire cracker manufacturing unit in Sivakasi in Virudhunagar district.
March 27, 2012: Two workers who sustained serious burn injuries in a blast at a fireworks unit in Sankarapandiapuram near Sattur succumbed to the injuries at a private hospital in Madurai.
Aug 10, 2012: A worker at a cracker unit was critically injured in a fire accident at a fireworks unit at Thulukkakurichi near Vembakottai.
Aug 13, 2012: A woman employee of a fireworks unit was killed in a fire accident at a cracker unit in Maraneri near Virudhunagar.
Sept 05, 2012: At least 38 people were killed and over 60 injured in one of the worst fire tragedies in Om Sakthi Fireworks, a private cracker manufacturing unit in Mudhalipatti.
http://www.newindianexpress.com/states/tamil_nadu/article601806.ece
AL-MOST ALL deaths are DUE to BURNING no BUILDING ever COLLAPSED even-though their storing capacity of crackers is *10000 times of Kerala temple.