https://www.overlawyered.com/2013/05/texas-industrial-accidents/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Mon, 13 May 2013 13:37:35 +0000 hourly 1 https://www.overlawyered.com/2013/05/texas-industrial-accidents/comment-page-1/#comment-212907 Mon, 13 May 2013 13:37:35 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=38253#comment-212907 Historical note: The nation’s worst industrial disaster happened in Texas City, 1947, and it was a fertilizer explosion. Two converted Liberty ships were taking on a cargo of 3,000 tonnes of ammonium nitrate when one of them caught fire and exploded, igniting and setting off the cargo in the other. The death toll was 581. This happened ten miles from Galveston, the site of the nation’s worst natural disaster, where a hurricane killed 5,000 people in 1900.

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