the worst industrial disaster in Texas' history. 581 people were killed on April 16, 1947 after an ammonium nitrate explosion ...

The lawn and garden fertilizer plant is home to more than 300 tons of ammonium nitrate, and officials feared a potential explosion. According to local media, the fire started Monday night.

Ammonium nitrate is a highly volatile industrial chemical ... I suspect that the chances of a similar disaster are relatively ...

HE devices, such as TNT, C-4, Semtex, nitroglycerin, dynamite, and ammonium nitrate fuel oil ... potential toxic exposures and environmental hazards for which the health department will need ...

A cargo ship packed with potentially explosive ammonium nitrate remains adrift in the English Channel off the coast of France. The Maltese-registered Ruby is carrying 20,000 tonnes of the chemical ...

Ammonium nitrate has caused similar explosions in the past – including the Texas City Disaster of 1947, when almost nearly ...

The disaster was preceded by a large fire at ... Lebanon's Prime Minister, Hassan Diab, blamed the detonation on 2,750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate that he said had been stored unsafely at a ...

An explosion of ammonium nitrate devastated the port of Beirut ... whose organisation has analysed the ship’s load. – Erika disaster – He said the chemical compound’s Russian origins ...

Since the disaster two officials have resigned ... Its cargo included the ammonium nitrate, which is used as a fertiliser and as an explosive. It was stored in a port warehouse for safety reasons ...

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), through its Environmental Research & Radiation Safety (ERRS) division, is investigating Firestone Liberia for allegedly polluting water sources, including ...

The crew were asked to load some heavy road equipment and take it to Jordan’s Port of Aqaba before resuming their journey onto Africa, where the ammonium nitrate was to be delivered to an ...