Major ammonium nitrate facilities
Click for full-size view. Major ammonium nitrate facilities. More than 40 … [visit site to read more]
View ArticleFind reported ammonium nitrate sites near you
Are you worried that your home, school or church might be near a facility containing potentially explosive materials? Use this map to examine the locations of 44 facilities in Texas that reported...
View ArticleEXCLUSIVE: Feds issue ammonium nitrate safety alert
The April 17 explosion at West Fertilizer Co. killed at least 15 people and injured hundreds of others. (File 2013/The Associated Press)visit site to read more]
View ArticleWest survivors are slowly recovering; study approved to track injuries
Misty Lambert needed 21 hours of surgery and more than 1,000 stitches after being injured in the West explosion. (Mona Reeder, The Dallas Morning News)visit site to read more]
View ArticleHow OSHA’s West Fertilizer fine stacks up against others
The site of the West Fertilizer Plant explosion is nearly cleared of debris from the deadly blast that left hundreds homeless and injured, and killed 15 people in West, Texas in April 2013. A fence...
View ArticleAt home for the holidays in West, Texas
San Antonio Express-News sportswriter Brent Zwerneman has an excellent piece about the personal meaning of last year’s deadly fertilizer explosion in West, Texas. visit site to read more]
View ArticleGroup wants to prevent frustration like that in West
A cross honors those killed in the West fertilizer explosion. (Louis DeLuca/Staff Photographer)visit site to read more]
View ArticleNew school building dedicated in West, Texas
Today provided the most visible symbol yet of the town of West rising, literally, from the rubble. West High School’s new ag shop building … [visit site to read more]
View ArticleThis week 67 years ago, tons of ammonium nitrate blew up in Texas City; two...
Black smoke billows from the Port of Texas City after a ship loaded with ammonium nitrate caught fire and exploded on April 16, 1947. (File 1947/The Associated Press) In yesterday’s paper, I wrote a...
View ArticleCongressman asks state for better West blast health survey
An aerial photo taken the day after the West explosion shows the damaged nursing home at lower left and the fertilizer plant at upper right. (Associated Press) The U.S. congressman who represents West...
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