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Texas Plant Owner Failed to Disclose Excess of Dangerous Chemical

HeadlineApr 22, 2013

The death toll from last week’s massive explosion at a fertilizer plant in Texas stands at 14, 12 of them first responders. More than 200 people were also left wounded. More details have emerged on how the plant’s owners neglected key oversight rules leading up to the blast. According to Reuters, the plant had been storing 1,350 times the amount of ammonium nitrate that would normally trigger government inspection. The plant’s owner, West Fertilizer, never told the Department of Homeland Security it was well over the limit, as it is required to do.

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