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AYN RAND Texas overall has the highest rate of workplace fatalities in
the country and a high rate of fires and explosions, which come with
very high costs: The fires and explosions at Texas’s chemical and
industrial plants cost as much in property damages as in all other
states combined. Overall, workplace accidents cost the economy around
$250 billion a year.
http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2013/05/17/2026931/investigation-west-texas-fertilizer-explosion/
More Questions Than Answers From Monthlong Investigation Of West,
Texas Fertilizer Explosion
By Bryce Covert on May 17, 2013 at 9:37 am
While the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (AFT)
has concluded its excavation of the site where a fertilizer plant
exploded in West, Texas, killing 15 and injuring hundreds, it has yet
to determine the cause of the accident, officials announced on
Thursday evening. Potential causes thus far include criminal activity,
a problem with its 120 volt electrical system, or an old golf cart
located on the premises. They have ruled out the ignition of anhydrous
ammonia or smoking as potential causes.
What is clear is that something started a fire in a seed room in the
fertilizer and seed building, and the fire kept burning hotter,
increasing the chances that ammonium nitrate at the facility would
explode. When debris and equipment from the burning building made
impact, it set off a detonation that in turn set off another. In
total, about 28 to 34 tons of ammonium nitrate exploded with the power
of 15,000 to 20,000 pounds of TNT. Most debris fell within 3,000 feet
but some traveled as far as 2.5 miles.
This investigation has taken much longer than is usual: most last
three to seven days, but the agency has spent a month looking into the
causes and still has yet to determine the exact one. It has also spent
nearly $1 million on the investigation in West.
That cost will be added to the estimated $100 million in property
damage that the explosion caused, plus federal aid promised by
President Obama. Yet because the plant only carried $1 million in
liability insurance, many victims may not see their losses covered.
Texas overall has the highest rate of workplace fatalities in the
country and a high rate of fires and explosions, which come with very
high costs: The fires and explosions at Texas’s chemical and
industrial plants cost as much in property damages as in all other
states combined. Overall, workplace accidents cost the economy around
$250 billion a year.
Whether gaps in regulatory oversight might be to blame is also yet to
be determined and is at the core of a separate, ongoing investigation
by the Chemical Safety Board. What is clear, however, is that the
plant hadn’t been inspected by the Occupational Safety and Health
Administration since 1985, and it also slipped by six other regulatory
agencies.
the country and a high rate of fires and explosions, which come with
very high costs: The fires and explosions at Texas’s chemical and
industrial plants cost as much in property damages as in all other
states combined. Overall, workplace accidents cost the economy around
$250 billion a year.
http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2013/05/17/2026931/investigation-west-texas-fertilizer-explosion/
More Questions Than Answers From Monthlong Investigation Of West,
Texas Fertilizer Explosion
By Bryce Covert on May 17, 2013 at 9:37 am
While the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (AFT)
has concluded its excavation of the site where a fertilizer plant
exploded in West, Texas, killing 15 and injuring hundreds, it has yet
to determine the cause of the accident, officials announced on
Thursday evening. Potential causes thus far include criminal activity,
a problem with its 120 volt electrical system, or an old golf cart
located on the premises. They have ruled out the ignition of anhydrous
ammonia or smoking as potential causes.
What is clear is that something started a fire in a seed room in the
fertilizer and seed building, and the fire kept burning hotter,
increasing the chances that ammonium nitrate at the facility would
explode. When debris and equipment from the burning building made
impact, it set off a detonation that in turn set off another. In
total, about 28 to 34 tons of ammonium nitrate exploded with the power
of 15,000 to 20,000 pounds of TNT. Most debris fell within 3,000 feet
but some traveled as far as 2.5 miles.
This investigation has taken much longer than is usual: most last
three to seven days, but the agency has spent a month looking into the
causes and still has yet to determine the exact one. It has also spent
nearly $1 million on the investigation in West.
That cost will be added to the estimated $100 million in property
damage that the explosion caused, plus federal aid promised by
President Obama. Yet because the plant only carried $1 million in
liability insurance, many victims may not see their losses covered.
Texas overall has the highest rate of workplace fatalities in the
country and a high rate of fires and explosions, which come with very
high costs: The fires and explosions at Texas’s chemical and
industrial plants cost as much in property damages as in all other
states combined. Overall, workplace accidents cost the economy around
$250 billion a year.
Whether gaps in regulatory oversight might be to blame is also yet to
be determined and is at the core of a separate, ongoing investigation
by the Chemical Safety Board. What is clear, however, is that the
plant hadn’t been inspected by the Occupational Safety and Health
Administration since 1985, and it also slipped by six other regulatory
agencies.
Bret Cahill
May 19, 2013, 10:49:11 PM5/19/13
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> AYN RAND Texas overall has the highest rate of workplace fatalities in
> the country and a high rate of fires and explosions, which come with
> very high costs: The fires and explosions at Texas’s chemical and
> industrial plants cost as much in property damages as in all other
> states combined. Overall, workplace accidents cost the economy around
> $250 billion a year.
>
> http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2013/05/17/2026931/investigation-wes...
> the country and a high rate of fires and explosions, which come with
> very high costs: The fires and explosions at Texas’s chemical and
> industrial plants cost as much in property damages as in all other
> states combined. Overall, workplace accidents cost the economy around
> $250 billion a year.
>
>
> More Questions Than Answers From Monthlong Investigation Of West,
> Texas Fertilizer Explosion
> By Bryce Covert on May 17, 2013 at 9:37 am
> While the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (AFT)
> has concluded its excavation of the site where a fertilizer plant
> exploded in West, Texas, killing 15 and injuring hundreds, it has yet
> to determine the cause of the accident, officials announced on
> Thursday evening. Potential causes thus far include criminal activity,
> a problem with its 120 volt electrical system, or an old golf cart
> located on the premises. They have ruled out the ignition of anhydrous
> ammonia or smoking as potential causes.
A lot of industrial sabotage goes on in Texas. With few exceptions
> More Questions Than Answers From Monthlong Investigation Of West,
> Texas Fertilizer Explosion
> By Bryce Covert on May 17, 2013 at 9:37 am
> While the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (AFT)
> has concluded its excavation of the site where a fertilizer plant
> exploded in West, Texas, killing 15 and injuring hundreds, it has yet
> to determine the cause of the accident, officials announced on
> Thursday evening. Potential causes thus far include criminal activity,
> a problem with its 120 volt electrical system, or an old golf cart
> located on the premises. They have ruled out the ignition of anhydrous
> ammonia or smoking as potential causes.
like DuPont no environmentalist hippy commie greenola hates the oil &
chemical bidness more than their own employees.
After all, Texans aren't allowed to -- get this injustice -- take
their guns into gasoline tank farms!
. . .
> Whether gaps in regulatory oversight might be to blame is also yet to
> be determined and is at the core of a separate, ongoing investigation
> by the Chemical Safety Board. What is clear, however, is that the
> plant hadn’t been inspected by the Occupational Safety and Health
> Administration since 1985, and it also slipped by six other regulatory
> agencies.
at the ExxonMobil plant in Beaumont. Blocks away in commercial
residential areas it was hanging overhead but no one gave it a second
thought.
Business as usual.
Bret Cahill
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