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West Fertilizer Company explosion. 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 ...
17 kwi 2013 · A massive explosion at a fertilizer storage and distribution facility fatally injured twelve volunteer firefighters, two members of the public and caused hundreds of injuries. Final Reports. FINAL REPORT: West Fertilizer Final Investigation Report.
25 kwi 2013 · A week after a blast at a Texas fertilizer plant killed at least 15 people and hurt more than 200, authorities still don’t know exactly why the West Chemical and Fertilizer Company plant...
11 maj 2016 · The memorial was held for those killed in the blast at a Texas fertilizer plant. Fourteen people, nearly all first responders, died in an explosion at the West Fertilizer Co. on April 17.
13 kwi 2023 · Everything changed around 19:30, when a devastating explosion at the West Fertilizer Company plant rocked the city. The blast was so powerful that it was felt 80 miles away and registered as...
23 kwi 2014 · The 2013 fertilizer plant blast that killed 15 people and wounded another 226 in West, Texas, “should never have occurred,” the chairman of the U.S. Chemical Safety Board said Tuesday.
10 kwi 2023 · The blast – the equivalent of 30,000 pounds of TNT – prompted the White House and federal agencies to intensify their focus on ammonium nitrate, a fertilizer that’s highly combustible and the...
