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Center for Public Integrity
February 16, 2018
Under stadium lights, the West, Texas, high school football field, home of the Trojans, was transformed into a makeshift triage center. The 2013 disaster in West, a town of just 2,800, began with a fire at the local fertilizer plant, highlighting safety gaps at thousands of facilities nationwide that use or storeÃâà...
Insurance Journal
January 26, 2018
A Central Texas town devastated by a 2013 fertilizer plant explosion that killed 15 people, many of them emergency personnel, has reached a settlement of its lawsuit for damages caused by the blast. The city council in West this week approved of accepting $10.44 million to settle its claims against theÃâà...
Houston Business Journal
January 25, 2018
According to the Waco Tribune-Herald, the city will receive more than $10.44 million from multiple defendants: CF Industries, a fertilizer manufacturer: $6.4 million; El Dorado Chemical: $3.9 million; Adair Grain Inc., which owned the fertilizer plant: $143,000. International Chemical is part of the settlementsÃâà...
Dallas News (blog)
January 24, 2018
The city of West has reached a $10.4 million settlement with several companies in the devastating April 2013 fertilizer plant explosion that resulted in 15 deaths and millions of dollars in property damage. The city had filed a lawsuit that alleged Adair Grain Inc., CF Industries, El Dorado Chemical CompanyÃâà...
Insurance Journal
January 17, 2018
The city of West, Texas, and several other plaintiffs have reached settlements and partial settlements of claims stemming from a deadly explosion in the central Texas town. An April 13, 2013, blaze heated up 30 tons of ammonium nitrate at a fertilizer plant in West. Investigators don't know for sure whatÃâà...
Claims Journal
January 16, 2018
The town of West, Texas, and several other plaintiffs have reached settlements and partial settlements of claims stemming from a deadly explosion in the ... The fire involved a 12,000 square foot wood frame seed and fertilizer building at the West Fertilizer Plant, known as the Bulk Processing Plant, whichÃâà...
Texas Monthly
June 15, 2017
The West Fertilizer Company, shown from the air, lies in ruins on April 18, 2013 in West, Texas. ... The regulations, which were originally set to go into effect on June 13, were drawn up under the Obama administration after a fertilizer plant in the Central Texas city of West exploded in 2013, killing fifteenÃâà...
NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth
June 8, 2017
Memorial to Honor 15 Killed in West, Texas Fertilizer Plant Blast ... An artist's rendering shows the planned memorial to the victims of the fertilizer plant explosion in West. Work has begun on a memorial to honor the 15 people killed in the 2013 fertilizer plant explosion in the Central Texas city of West.
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