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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 .
Bolles then exited the hotel, having parked his car, a 1976 Datsun 710, in an adjacent lot on Fourth Avenue. Just as Bolles was driving out of his parking space, a remote-controlled bomb consisting of six sticks of dynamite, taped to the underside of the car beneath the driver's seat, was detonated. The explosion shattered Bolles' lower body ...
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.
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 ...
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 explosion may refer to: Texas City disaster (1947), an industrial accident; Texas City refinery explosion (2005), an oil refinery fire
February 22 – An explosion occurred on a gas pipeline being repaired, near Munday, Texas. 2 of the crew were killed, and another injured. [ 132 ] May 20 – Fire broke out at a MAPCO pipeline pumping station and Terminal in Ogden, Iowa , threatening 4 propane storage tanks for a time.