Texas has not surveyed injuries from plant blast
Source: AP
DALLAS (AP) -- More than three months after a Texas fertilizer plant exploded killing 15 people and hurting hundreds, the state still has not started surveying blast injuries.
Federal and state officials suggest such a study could increase the understanding about how many others may be in similar danger.
As of now, the Dallas Morning News reports (http://dallasne.ws/1c1hbbU), the Texas Department of State Health Services cannot even definitively say how many people were hurt when the West Fertilizer Co. exploded in April. An unofficial count estimates more than 300 were injured.
In 1995, when a bomb went off in an Oklahoma City federal building killing 168 people, state officials immediately tracked casualties.
Read more: http://www.khou.com/news/texas-news/Texas-has-not-surveyed-injuries-from-plant-blast-217310351.html
The state didn't have proper regulations in the first place, why should they care now?
hlthe2b
(102,292 posts)accounting.
ornotna
(10,803 posts)Wouldn't want to do that now, would we.
davidpdx
(22,000 posts)An apartment building and retirement home were destroyed nearby.
I like your avatar so much I wanted to see what six in a row looked like:
ornotna
(10,803 posts)I've had this avatar for years and never tried that, nice.
davidpdx
(22,000 posts)arely staircase
(12,482 posts)State business, no matter how obvious, will not be conducted if it could cost rick Perry's criminal contributors and buddies some dough.
Ford_Prefect
(7,901 posts)It is also a case of where it happened. Had the same explosion occurred in Dallas, or Austin, or even Plano the reaction and results would have been quite thoroughly different. West, Texas is so far off the beaten path, or else the fertilizer company has well paid help in Austin, that no one officially wants to know the answers posed buy the obvious questions.
The Oklahoma City case was also Federal and metropolitan. Both conditions are immediately fraught with regulation and oversight.
Dustlawyer
(10,495 posts)bunch of poor people into thinking their problems are caused by Democrats, then they loot everything! Perry has always received marching orders from the rich and powerful. How else could someone that stupid get to be a millionaire while in public office?
marble falls
(57,106 posts)Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)Loss of lives not to count the damage to structures is unthinkable. But Ole Ricky Boy was running around all over inviting businesses to come to Texas, we don't like regulations here and if there are some regulations we just won't send any inspectors.