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Insurance Journal
April 18, 2018
April 17 marked the fifth anniversary of the fertilizer plant explosion that claimed 15 lives in the town of West, Texas. Despite a lengthy investigation by state and federal officials, no one has been arrested and charged with setting the fire that led to the blast, the Insurance Council of Texas reports.
KHOU.com
April 18, 2018
The explosion at the West Fertilizer Plant in West, Texas has become the ATF's largest scene investigation in history. ... Tuesday marks five years since an intentionally-set fire caused an explosion at the West Fertilizer Company in the small town of West, TX, killing 15 people, injuring more than 260 andÃâà...
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...
Claims Journal
January 16, 2018
... a 12,000 square foot wood frame seed and fertilizer building at the West Fertilizer Plant, known as the Bulk Processing Plant, which had no fire resistance rating. The Uniform Fire Code wasn't published until 1971 after the building's construction sometime in the 1960's. When the safety board investigated,Ãâà...
Houston Chronicle
August 1, 2017
The fertilizer plant explosion that killed 15 people and injured more than 160 in the town of West may not have been sparked by a deliberately set fire as federal investigators claimed, according to attorneys, arson experts and a former top workplace safety official under President Barack Obama.
NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth
June 8, 2017
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. The memorial is being built in a city park about 100 yards from where the West Fertilizer Co. plant exploded on April 17, 2013. A federal investigation into the blast that causedÃâà...
AZoM
December 31, 1999
In 2013, a catastrophic nitrate explosion occurred in a fertilizer storage plant in the West Texas, USA, which took 15 lives through an explosive force of 7.5-10 ... However, ammonia is also lighter than air, and this means that it can form clouds and travel beyond the perimeters of a fertilizer plant if there is anÃâà...
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