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Major ammonium nitrate facilities

Click for full-size view. Major ammonium nitrate facilities. More than 40 … [visit site to read more]

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Find 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...

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EXCLUSIVE: 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]

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West 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]

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How 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...

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At 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]

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Group 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]

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New 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]

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This 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...

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Congressman 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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