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In 1892, [11] the Giant Powder Company moved once again, this time to Sobrante near Point Pinole, northwest of San Pablo (Sobrante should not be confused with nearby El Sobrante, California). The company town of Giant, Richmond, California was established by 1895. [12] In 1904, two men were killed in an explosion at the plant. [13] [14]
This is a list of Superfund sites in California designated under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) environmental law. The CERCLA federal law of 1980 authorized the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to create a list of polluted locations requiring a long-term response to clean up ...
1868 advertisement in a mining newspaper for the California Powder Works California Powder Works was the first American explosive powder manufacturing company west of the Rocky Mountains . When the outbreak of the Civil War cut off supplies of gunpowder to California 's mining and road-building industries, a local manufacturer was needed.
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Several people are hurt and a courthouse in Santa Maria, California, is closed following “a bomb explosion” Wednesday morning, officials say.
USS Turner, 1943 naval explosion in Lower New York Bay; Bombay Explosion (1944), explosion on a ship in Bombay Harbour; SS Paul Hamilton, 20 April 1944, a Liberty ship carrying cargo of high explosives and bombs, sunk by Luftwaffe; Soham rail disaster, 2 June 1944, fire and subsequent explosion of a freight wagon carrying high explosives.
Bid4Assets has conducted tax sales via online auction for 50 of the 58 counties in California. The original Watergate lock [8] The Beastie Boys Grand Royal record label, [9] In July 2002, Bid4Assets conducted an internet-based tax sale for Washtenaw County, Michigan. This was Michigan's first-ever online tax-foreclosed property auction. [10]
A vacuum truck exploded at the Santa Clara Waste Water plant in the early morning hours of November 18, 2014. Two workers were injured in the initial explosion, three responding fire-fighters were injured by the fumes from the spill of a highly volatile chemical mixture, and 50 others were exposed to fumes and required treatment at local hospitals.