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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 .
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 ...
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The white Charger fled the crash site, police said. NBC Dallas-Fort Worth reported five members of a family were in the Traverse. Jessie and Lorena Rosales, the parents, died on the scene.
A head-on collision in Texas killed seven people and seriously injured two children Thursday, officials said. The crash occurred around 4:40 p.m. local time on FM 1433, about eight miles north of ...
December 14, 1940 - A tank farm fire I Texas City killed one person, and injured 18 others. [156] May 16, 1952 - A massive tank farm fire hit a Corpus Christi terminal. [155] April 11, 1965 - A gas well blew out in Parker County, causing a massive fire. Firefighter Red Adair had to be called in to control the well, which was capped on April 17 ...
Texas City: 16 April 1947: 581 2,086 + 870 Texas City disaster: The cargo ship Grandcamp was being loaded on 16 April 1947, when a fire was detected in the hold: at this point, 2,300 tons of ammonium nitrate in sacks were already aboard. [8] The captain responded by closing the hold and pumping in pressurised steam.