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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]
Displaced. ≈300,000. On 4 August 2020, a large amount of ammonium nitrate stored at the Port of Beirut in the capital city of Lebanon exploded, causing at least 218 deaths, 7,000 injuries, and US$ 15 billion in property damage, as well as leaving an estimated 300,000 people homeless. A cargo of 2,750 tonnes of the substance (equivalent to ...
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.
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (AP) — The City of Winston-Salem is asking people within one mile of a raging blaze at a fertilizer plant to evacuate due to the possibility of a large explosion.
A North Carolina fertilizer plant fire forced thousands to evacuate on Monday as the potential for an explosion looms. Winston-Salem Fire Chief Trey Mayo said in a press conference that a one-mile ...
2. 25. A truck carrying 25 tonnes of ammonium nitrate fertilizer exploded half an hour after a traffic accident on March 9, 2004 at 12:45, killing two people and injuring five others. The explosion, which could be heard at a distance of several kilometers caused a crater five metres deep.
Residents of the North Carolina city of Winston-Salem still need to be cautious of a possible explosion, officials said Thursday morning, more than two days after a fire broke out at a fertilizer ...