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On April 17, 2013, an ammonium nitrate explosion occurred at the West Fertilizer Company storage and distribution facility in West, Texas, United States (18 miles (29 km) north of Waco ), while emergency services personnel were responding to a fire at the facility. [ 7] Fifteen people were killed, more than 160 were injured, and more than 150 ...
The Port Neal fertilizer plant explosion occurred on December 13, 1994 in the ammonium nitrate plant at the Terra International, Inc., Port Neal Complex, 16 mi (26 km) south of Sioux City, Iowa, United States. [1] Four workers at the plant were killed by the explosion, and eighteen others were injured. [3]
Another study used several videos of the explosion to describe the evolution of the fireball size and estimated the Beirut explosion yield to be 0.6 ± 0.3 kt of TNT. [67] The Beirut explosion was similar to explosions of large amounts of ammonium nitrate in Tianjin, China , in 2015; in Texas City, United States , in 1947; or in Toulouse ...
A structure fire burns at the Weaver Fertilizer Plant on Monday, Jan. 31, 2022, in Winston-Salem, N.C. (Allison Lee Isley/The Winston-Salem Journal via AP) (ASSOCIATED PRESS)
Thousands of people living within a mile of a burning fertilizer plant in North Carolina remained under threat for a second straight day, with the potential for chemical explosions still looming.
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2,500. On 21 September 2001, an explosion occurred at the AZF (French initialism for AZote Fertilisant, i.e. nitrogen fertiliser) fertiliser factory in Toulouse, France, belonging to the Grande Paroisse branch of the Total group. Three hundred tonnes of ammonium nitrate was stored (the maximum capacity was 2,000 tonnes) in hangar 221 222. [1]
The City of Winston-Salem, N.C., is asking people within one mile of a raging blaze at factory to evacuate due to the possibility of a large explosion. Fire at fertilizer plant may cause explosion ...