Several employees injured in explosion at Archer Daniels Midland plant in Decatur

NBC Chicago ^ | 9/11/23 | staff

[CFW]

Several injuries have been reported in an explosion at a plant operated by Archer Daniels Midland in Decatur, Illinois, NBC affiliate WAND-TV reported.

In a statement, the company said an explosion occurred at approximately 7:11 p.m. on Sunday inside the East Plant within ADM's Decatur processing complex. Several employees were injured and transported to the hospital for treatment, the statement added.

Headquartered in downtown Chicago, ADM is an agricultural origination and processing company, and on its website describes itself as a "leader in both human and animal nutrition."

As of late Sunday, the company had yet to determine a cause of the explosion.

[CFW]

Another day, another explosion.

Another article on the incident here:

Videos, Photos Show Massive Explosion that Injured Employees at ADM Plant

[SaveFerris]

Good thing I’m not a conspiracy theorist

Or I’d have to threaten to report Nully to the mods

[SuperLuminal]

Another coincidence for the list...

[CFW]

I have a theory that the insistence on hiring on D.I.E. principles rather than knowledge and experience means that certain maintenance practices are ignored.

For instance, if the former and now retired manager insisted that machinery be swept around two times per shift, but the new (and inexperienced) manager ignores those practices and sees no reason to do it, dust builds up with can cause a fire from a simple spark. If frayed wires were inspected monthly in the past, but the new manager says once a year is sufficient then problems are missed and machinery can short out causing a fire. If you multiple those types of failed inspection decisions by the dozens you increase the chances of a fire or explosion by quite a bit.

It’s a bit of the “for want of a nail” type scenario that causes cascading problems.

[SaveFerris]

Lotsa weird stuff

[Reverend Wright]

“... if the former and now retired manager insisted that machinery be swept around two times per shift, but the new (and inexperienced) manager ignores those practices and sees no reason to do it, dust builds up with can cause a fire from a simple spark. If frayed wires were inspected monthly in the past, but the new manager says once a year is sufficient then problems are missed and machinery can short out causing a fire. “

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It’s worse than that.

The bigger problem in my view is that “spreadsheet man” calculates the cost of those inspections and compares to some underestimate of the probability of fire and the damage.

Usually by the time that the fire occurs, “spreadsheet man” has got a big bonus for “cost savings”, and has been promoted. The new diversity hires are in charge, and we don’t want to blame sainted minorities so the investigation declares that no-one could have known.

Rinse and repeat this risk behaviour in every area in every company... and you get the competency crisis.

[roving]

I don’t like the idea my sister works at one.

[roving]

At this point, I think it’s more than dirty floors.

[cyn]

// certain maintenance practices are ignored. //

True, which feeds into the planned chaos (“It’s a feature, not a flaw”) and disruption of food chains, etc.

We have seen this cause and (desired) effect before. The hanging chad (pl, sim chaff) in FL 2000 election were (among other causes) thought due to the Votomatic equipment in Palm Beach County not being regularly and adequately cleaned and maintained. This meant the glorified hole puncher could not cut through ballots (“You had ONE job to do…”) because of the chad build up beneath in the receptacles.

https://homepage.divms.uiowa.edu/~jones/cards/chad.html - Iowa last state to use these machines, 2014 (?)

Sabotage, lighting a match in unswept debris, on top of this. Planned deliberate disruptions => any and all contributors welcome.

[Mark17]

I obviously don’t know what happened here, but isn’t this about the 25th outfit, having to do with food production, that’s been partially or totally destroyed? What’s that old saying, once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, 3 times, is enemy action. Is this enemy action? I didn’t know.

[Paladin2]

“the company had yet to determine a cause of the explosion”...

Fuel/Air mix + ignition source.

[FreedomPoster]

Dust explosion, bet on it. Nasty stuff.

[normbal]

Just another isolated incident. Move along citizen, nothing to see here.

Enjoy your soylent green and bugs. Be happy.

[commerical break voiceover]

NEW and IMPROVED! NOW Soylent Green comes with ANT sprinkles!

[Fade into scenes of Happy children in lunch room eating algae-green palm-sized biscuits/chips with black sprinkles]

Little hispanic-looking kid says “I like the ones with red ants… THEY’RE SPICY!}

[Zoom in on chip as child brings it to mouth and CUT TO: silver foil mylar wrapper of SOYLENT GREEN! baggie, with superimposed banner reading “NEW LOW BIDENOMIC PRICE of $12.99 A CHIP!”

Female voice says “and they’ve covered by EBT, too!”

Fadeout…

[normbal]

Just another isolated incident. Move along citizen, nothing to see here.

Enjoy your soylent green and bugs. Be happy.

[commerical break voiceover]

NEW and IMPROVED! NOW Soylent Green comes with ANT sprinkles!

[Fade into scenes of Happy children in lunch room eating algae-green palm-sized biscuits/chips with black sprinkles]

Little hispanic-looking kid says “I like the ones with red ants… THEY’RE SPICY!}

[Zoom in on chip as child brings it to mouth and CUT TO: silver foil mylar wrapper of SOYLENT GREEN! baggie, with superimposed banner reading “NEW LOW BIDENOMIC PRICE of $12.99 A CHIP!”

Female voice says “and they’ve covered by EBT, too!”

Fadeout…

[mozarky2]

I have a friend who worked at a grain elevator in Decatur-Arkansas! He said that you’ll see a “flash” when the grain dust first ignites, THEN the large explosion when the dust lying around on beams and such is stirred into the atmosphere.
One such “flash” occurred while he was there, but due to the cleanliness of the plant, no larger explosion resulted. But, one of his co-workers was situated about fourteen feet above their level, and immediately after the flash, the employee was standing right beside them. When they asked him how he got there, he replied, “I looked up and I saw God, and he said ‘Jump, m***********r, JUMP!’”

[ronnie raygun]

deliberate, starve the animals we feed on

[Dust in the Wind]

LOL

[mozarky2]

True story, too!

[Ronald77]

Our government hard at work bringing us into the global world government. Who else can feed us, comrades.