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The 1947 Texas City disaster was an industrial accident that occurred on April 16, 1947, in the port of Texas City, Texas, United States, located in Galveston Bay. It was the deadliest industrial accident in U.S. history and one of history's largest non-nuclear explosions .
The fatal explosion involved at most a few tonnes of explosive. A larger explosion of about 80 tonnes of ammonium nitrate emulsion, ANE, an emulsion of ammonium nitrate, fuel and water, UN 3375) was caused by fires under storage facilities at the site at 11:02 AM. There were no fatalities in the second explosion because the site had been evacuated.
Not long after the explosion and the other accidents at Texas City in 2005, however, BP's image in the U.S. was further tarnished by the near-sinking of the semi-submersible oil platform Thunder Horse PDQ in July of the same year [167] and, more crucially, in March 2006 when an oil pipeline spill was discovered in Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, while ...
Authorities on Thursday lifted a second evacuation order in a week for thousands of people in a Texas city as U.S. safety officials began examining what caused the latest in a series of chemical ...
Texas City disaster in the Port of Texas City, Texas, USA; over 5,000 were also injured. 575: 4 June 1989: Ufa train disaster in Ufa, Soviet Union. 565: 21 September 1921: Oppau explosion at a BASF plant in Germany; possibly as many as 1,500 were killed 542: 9 April 1945: SS Charles Henderson ammunition explosion at Bari, Italy; 1,800 injured ...
CENTRAL TEXAS (FOX 44) – We at FOX 44 News are mourning the loss of a journalist who suddenly passed away on Wednesday. Kris Radcliffe was the 5, 6 and 10 p.m. anchor at KCEN TV in Temple, Texas.
The wife of a Texas news anchor who died suddenly is thanking those who have shown their support after her husband’s death. Kris Radcliffe “died unexpectedly” at the age of 51 on Wednesday ...
Texas City explosion may refer to: Texas City disaster (1947), an industrial accident; Texas City refinery explosion (2005), an oil refinery fire