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  • 1 dead, several injured in Marion GM explosion

    07/01/2014 8:50:12 PM PDT · by smokingfrog · 2 replies
    rtv6abc ^ | 7-1-14 | Kara Kenney, Katie Heinz
    INDIANAPOLIS - A chemical explosion Tuesday at a General Motors metal-stamping plant in Indiana killed a contractor and injured five other people, authorities said. The blast killed James L. Gibson, 48, Grant County Coroner Stephen Dorsey said. Marion General Hospital was treating five other people with non-life threatening injuries, hospital spokeswoman Ann Vermilion told the Marion Chronicle-Tribune. However, GM issued a statement saying four employees were under observation for non-life-threatening conditions at the hospital and that four others were transported there, but required no treatment. "The situation is contained. Everybody has been evacuated," GM spokeswoman Stephanie Jentgen said in a...
  • (Space) Shuttle worker dies in fall from launch pad

    03/14/2011 8:13:07 AM PDT · by musicman · 32 replies
    Orlando Sentinel ^ | March 14, 2011 | Orlando Sentinel
    A United Space Alliance employee fell to his death this morning while working on Launch Pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center, according to NASA. Details about how the man fell, or what he was doing prior to the fall, remains unclear, said NASA spokeswoman Candrea Thomas.
  • Iraq roadside bomb "went off prematurely" [One less terrorist]

    09/29/2004 10:51:07 AM PDT · by OXENinFLA · 74 replies · 1,577+ views
    Yahoo ^ | 9-29-04 | Khalid Mohammed
    Wed Sep 29, 9:47 AM ET People gather at the site where a roadside bomb, being planted by insurgents, went off prematurely in Adhamiya district of Baghdad, Iraq (news - web sites), Wednesday Sept. 29, 2004. One of the insurgents died, one was gravely injured and the third escaped. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)