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The 1947 Texas City disaster was an industrial accident that occurred on April 16, 1947, in the port of Texas City, Texas, United States, located in Galveston Bay. It was the deadliest industrial accident in U.S. history and one of history's largest non-nuclear explosions .
24 sie 2017 · Seventy years ago, Texas City was a little-known shipping port on the southeast coast of Texas. Then, some ammonium nitrate caught fire, two freighters exploded, and the town was...
13 lis 2009 · 1947. Fertilizer explosion kills more than 500 in Texas. A giant explosion occurs during the loading of fertilizer onto the freighter Grandcamp at a pier in Texas City, Texas, on April 16, 1947....
11 wrz 2023 · Ammonium nitrate turned a small fire into a major disaster. It started with a small fire in the hold of the French steamer, Grandcamp, which was docked in the port at Texas City.
At around 19:50, ammonium nitrate stored there exploded, leveling roughly 80 homes and a middle school. 133 residents of a nearby nursing home were trapped in the ruins. In all, 15 were killed, and about 200 injured.
2 cze 2023 · In the early hours of Nov. 29, 1988, six city firefighters were killed in an explosion involving a storage unit containing 25,000 pounds of ammonium nitrate that had been used for blasting...
4 paź 2024 · Between 400 and 600 people were killed, with as many as 4,000 injured. On the morning of April 16, the French-owned Grandcamp was preparing to finish loading a consignment of ammonium nitrate fertilizer at the port of Texas City, near Galveston.
