Factbox: U.S. Energy Disasters in 2010

(Reuters) - Procuring and shipping energy to U.S. cars and homes can be a dangerous task, even in a country with a slate of safety regulations.

Here is a look at energy-related disasters that have rocked the United States in this year. (Graphic on U.S. occupational fatalities by industry: link.reuters.com/qup66j)

June 7 - A natural gas pipeline explosion in North Texas killed three people, according to local media reports. Enterprise Products Partners said it owned the 36-inch (91-cm) pipeline, which is part of its Texas Intrastate system. The explosion was 15 miles south of Godley, Texas. WFAA-TV, a Dallas television station, quoted Chester Nolen, city manager of Cleburne, Texas, as saying 10 people were missing following the explosion. Cleburne is the largest city near the explosion.

The blast was originally thought to be an oil well explosion. An electrical crew was digging a hole when it struck the gas pipeline, an emergency services spokesman in Hood County, Texas, said.

June 7 - A fireball and explosion burned seven members of a crew drilling for natural gas at an abandoned coal mine in West Virginia, the second big fire at an energy formation known as the Marcellus Shale in less than a week, a government worker said.

June 4 - Workers capped a natural gas well in central Pennsylvania after it ruptured during drilling, spewing gas and drilling fluid 75 feet in the air, officials said. The well, operated by EOG Resources Inc in a remote area of Clearfield County, blew out when a drilling team "lost control" of the well while preparing to extract gas, according to a statement from the state Department of Environmental Protection. No one was killed or injured, and there were no evacuations, but nearby roads were closed, and officials declared a no-fly zone around the site. Three days later, state officials ordered the company to suspend its natural gas drilling operations in the state.

April 20, 2010 - Explosion and fire on Transocean Ltd's drilling rig Deepwater Horizon licensed to BP; 11 workers are killed. The rig was drilling in BP's Macondo project 42 miles southeast of Venice, Louisiana, beneath about 5,000 feet of water and 13,000 feet under the seabed. The Deepwater Horizon rig, valued at more than $560 million, sinks on April 22 and a 5-mile-long oil slick forms.

* April 5, 2010 - An explosion at the Upper Big Branch Mine in Montcoal, West Virginia, leaves at least 25 miners dead and four remain missing. It is the deadliest U.S. mining disaster since 1984.

According to federal records, the coal mine owned by Massey Energy has had a worse-than-average injury rate over the last 10 years with three fatalities since 1998.

* April 2, 2010 - Four workers died in a fire at Tesoro Corp's refinery in Anacortes, Washington. A catastrophic failure of a heat exchanger in the highly flammable naphtha unit of the plant is believed to have started the blaze. It is the worst refinery accident since March 2005.

* March 2, 2010 - A fire on an asphalt tank under construction killed two workers at Holly Corp's Navajo refinery in Artesia, New Mexico.

(Compiled by Jasmin Melvin; Editing by David Gregorio)