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The CSB has investigated 24 chemical accidents in Texas, including the West Fertilizer explosion.
CSB Safety Video on the April 17, 2013, fire and explosion at the West Fertilizer Company in West, Texas, which resulted in 15 fatalities, 260 injuries, and widespread community damage. The deadly fire and explosion occurred when about thirty tons of fertilizer grade ammonium nitrate exploded after being heated by a fire at the storage and distribution facility.
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CSB Chairman Rafael Moure-Eraso in Houston Chronicle op-ed
CSB Chairman Moure-Eraso in Senate testimony today: "It is sobering to reflect that nearly two years after the West disaster, very little if anything has changed in terms of federal, state, or local requirements for ammonium nitrate handling and storage. These practices still lag behind the ammonium nitrate safety practices of other countries ..."
New CSB video safety message on 30th anniversary of #BhopalDisaster discusses West, other recent U.S. accidents
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“The fire and explosion at West Fertilizer was preventable,” Rafael Moure-Eraso, the chairman of the Chemical Safety Board, told reporters. “It should never have occurred. It resulted from the failure of a company to take the necessary steps to avert a preventable fire and explosion and from the inability of federal, state and local regulatory agencies to identify a serious hazard and correct it.”
