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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 ...
Texas City explosion may refer to: Texas City disaster (1947), an industrial accident; Texas City refinery explosion (2005), an oil refinery fire
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.
A memorial service for Kris will be held at 11 a.m. local time on Friday, Nov. 8, at Renew Church in Waco, Texas, according to the anchor's obituary. Show comments. Advertisement.
Casino where car stopped before crash cooperating with police. 10:30, Ariana Baio. A vehicle involved in the explosion at Rainbow Bridge on Wednesday stopped at Seneca Niagara Resort and Casino ...
The explosion shattered Bolles' lower body, opened the driver's door and left him laying half outside the vehicle, mortally wounded. Bolles was treated at St. Joseph's Hospital over the next ten days, during which one of his arms and both of his legs were amputated ; he succumbed to his injuries on the eleventh day, June 13, at age 47.
A vigil was held at the Texas State Capitol on Monday night in honour of those killed after an SUV ploughed into them in Brownsville. At least eight were killed and 10 injured in the incident.