Posted on 06/24/2013 1:11:39 PM PDT by ConservativeMan55
UNION MILLS, Ind. (AP) — An explosion at a fertilizer plant in northwest Indiana has killed one person.
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Ok.. what in the world is going on here?????
Somebody needs to tally how many of these we’ve had.
There was one in Texas.. and I believe one in Louisiana.. maybe another.. and now this one.
Prayers for all who will be affected by this tragedy.
This sounds like the work on Al-Queda.
Three ... “central fuel tank explosions”?
Or Monsanto, maybe they were peddling uncontrolled seeds. /sarc
I didn’t see that.
Hmmm
Shockingly, it seems flammable or explosive substances sometimes burn or blow up.
Not at this pace.
Nothing to see here.
Please move along.
You don’t say—hazardous material is hazardous?
Statistically, what is the acceptable rate?
Just shocking isn’t it.
Turns out the extra pay for working in a hazardous environment is actually done for a reason.
Yes they happen at this pace. You just weren’t paying attention until recently.
And the question is what “pace” you are talking about; just ammonium nitrate explosions? There’s been two this year in the US. Or are you mentally adding in the Canadian fireworks explosion, etc.?
If you’re talking about all industrial explosions, then there are of course far more of those.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ammonium_nitrate_disasters
There were 3 separate incidents in Spain, Romania, and North Korea just in just three months in 2004.
A random distribution of rare events will be naturally “clumpy” on its own, far more than the average person understands. If there are on average 1 ammonium nitrate explosion every year over a 50 year period, there’s not ACTUALLY going to be one a year. you’ll go three years without one, and other times you’ll have two explosions within three months, etc.
Two in Louisiana in two days, different plants. One was nitrogen and one was fertilizer.
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