DISASTERS: EXPLOSIONS : UNITED STATES: STATES: TEXAS : INDUSTRIES: FERTILIZER INDUSTRY: West, Texas, Explosion Demands Action: Our View

[David P. Dillard]

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DISASTERS: EXPLOSIONS :

UNITED STATES: STATES: TEXAS :

INDUSTRIES: FERTILIZER INDUSTRY:

West, Texas, Explosion Demands Action: Our View

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West, Texas, Explosion Demands Action: Our View

The Editorial Board

8 p.m. EDT April 24, 2013

USA Today

http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2013/04/24/
west-texas-west-fertilizer-editorials-debates/2111109/

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A shorter URL for the above link:

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http://tinyurl.com/bj6vj4l

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Investigators still haven't said what caused last week's horrific
explosion at a Texas fertilizer distributor, but they seem to have ruled
out a deliberate attack. The fire and bomb-like blast are looking more
like an industrial accident made worse by haphazard oversight and the
state's notoriously lax zoning laws.

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Over a half-century, the town of West crept up around the fertilizer
facility until the plant sat near a middle school, a nursing home, an
apartment complex and numerous houses that were destroyed or damaged by
the explosion, which dug a crater 90 feet wide and killed 14 people.

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To the extent regulators paid attention to the plant, they seemed to have
worried about lesser dangers. Texas regulators monitored air quality and
truth-in-labeling. On the federal side, the Occupational Safety and Health
Administration hadn't inspected the business for worker safety problems
since 1985, and the Department of Homeland Security didn't know it housed
the fertilizer that apparently triggered the explosion.

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The Boston Marathon bombings overshadowed the disaster in Texas, but what
happened in West was deadlier, and preventing the next fertilizer accident
should command serious attention. Roughly 6,000 facilities similar to the
one in West are scattered around the USA, more than 1,000 of them in Texas
alone. If any good is to come from this tragedy, it is action to protect
these facilities' workers and neighbors.

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The complete article may be read at the URL above.

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