Fertilizer Companies Blame City for Deadly Explosion in West, Texas

[unhappycamper]

http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/07/27/fertilizer-companies-blame-city-deadly-explosion-west-texas



Fertilizer manufacturer, supplier submit motions saying last year's disaster is fault of city zoning, fire department

Fertilizer Companies Blame City for Deadly Explosion in West, Texas
Andrea Germanos, staff writer
Sunday, July 27, 2014

Two fertilizer companies facing litigation over the deadly explosion that rocked West, Texas have cast blame on the city and fire department for the disaster, the Waco Tribune-Herald reported Saturday.

Fifteen people died and at least two hundred were injured in April 2013 when a fire that led to an explosion occurred at the West Fertilizer Co.. The facility was storing large amounts of ammonium nitrate. News agencies described the power of the blast in which some of the ammonium nitrate exploded as being as powerful as 15,000 to 20,000 pounds of dynamite.

The two companies, fertilizer manufacturer El Dorado Chemical Co. and fertilizer manufacturer and distributor CF Industries, are among the industrial defendants facing suit. According to previous reporting by the Tribune-Herald,

CF Industries manufactures agricultural-grade ammonium nitrate at its plant in Yazoo City, Miss., which the lawsuits allege ended up at West Fertilizer. The other chemical companies (including El Dorado) were added later as defendants. The suits claim they also sold fertilizer to West Fertilizer Co.

[Demeter]

1. That's desperation talking

The city didn't put that bomb there. The companies did.

The city didn't set it off, either. Company policy did.

Texas better not try to socialize THESE losses.