1984 Vila Socó pipeline fire, Cubatão

A rusty pipeline belonging to Petrobras, running beneath Vila Socó, a favela of almost 6,000 residents on the outskirts of Cubatão, burst and spilled 700,000 litres of gasoline, which caught fire. Americas Quarterly, which attributes the pipeline to Petrobras, writes that the fire made Cubatão a national symbol of the price Brazilians paid for their industrial economy.

Date

1984-02-25

Deaths (Wikipedia list, low end where it gives a range)

508

What the pin marks

Cubatão, the city whose shantytown of Vila Socó burned, as the cited page positions it.

Where the position is published

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cubat%C3%A3o

Category: Disasters & Incidents

Tags: pipeline, gasoline, fire, favela, brazil

Coordinates: -23.89528, -46.42556

Part of Industrial and accidental explosions that killed 200 or more people since 1900

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