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Worker remains hospitalized after Louisiana plant explosion
ReutersBy Kathy Finn NEW ORLEANS, June 15 (Reuters) - One worker remained hospitalized on Saturday following an explosion at a Donaldsonville, Louisiana, nitrogen production plant on Friday that killed one worker and injured seven. CF Industries said one...Tags: Texas Fertilizer Plant Explosion (2013), Disasters and Accidents, Plant Openings, Deerfield, Chemical Industry
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Hospital siege, blasts new Pakistan government's first security test
ReutersQUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) - Militants in a volatile region of western Pakistan bombed a bus carrying women students on Saturday and then seized part of the hospital where survivors were taken, in the first major security test for the new prime minister,...Tags: Medical Specialization, Politics, Prosecution, Human Rights, Religious Conflicts
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Three killed by explosion at Tanzanian opposition party rally
ReutersDAR ES SALAAM (Reuters) - At least three people were killed and several injured on Saturday evening by an explosion at an election rally held by Tanzanian opposition party Chadema, witnesses and the state broadcaster said. Police said they were still...Tags: Politics, Government, Bombings, National Government, Explosions
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In Pakistan, attackers bomb women's university bus, hospital
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Militants laid siege to a hospital and bombed a women's university bus in the southwestern Pakistani city of Quetta in a wave of violence that killed at least 19 people and underscored the challenge facing new Prime Minister...
Tags: Medical Specialization, Politics, Religious Conflicts, Transportation Accidents, Government Ministers
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Explosion reminds La. that plants not always safe
By some measures, chemical plants like the one where a fatal explosion happened Thursday in Louisiana are among the safest manufacturing workplaces in America. But in the "chemical corridor" that lines the Mississippi River from New Orleans north to...Tags: Manufacturing and Engineering, Investments, Heavy Engineering, Petroleum Industry, Chemical Industry
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Second worker dies from Louisiana chemical plant explosion
ReutersBy Kathy Finn NEW ORLEANS, June 14 (Reuters) - A second person died on Friday as a result of an explosion that rocked the Williams Olefins petrochemical plant in Geismar, Louisiana, and injured more than 100 workers a day earlier. Scott Thrower, 47,...Tags: Williams Companies Incorporated, Occupational Safety and Health Administration, Hospitals and Clinics, Health and Safety at Work, Explosions
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2nd victim dies from Louisiana chemical plant explosion
HOUSTON--A second worker injured in an explosion and fire at a central Louisiana petrochemical plant has died and a few others remained hospitalized Friday. Scott Thrower, 47, of St. Amant, La., suffered burns Thursday morning in the explosion at the...Tags: Environmental Pollution, Williams Companies Incorporated, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Labor Legislation, Occupational Safety and Health Administration
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Second worker dies from Louisiana plant blast
ReutersNEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - A second person died on Friday as a result of an explosion that rocked the Williams Olefins petrochemical plant in Geismar, Louisiana, and injured more than 100 workers a day earlier. Scott Thrower, 47, died as a result of...Tags: Williams Companies Incorporated, Occupational Safety and Health Administration, Disasters and Accidents, Hospitals and Clinics, Health and Safety at Work
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Balto. Co. train derailment drew 911 calls from miles away
An employee at a scaffolding company next to the railroad tracks in Rosedale was one of the first people to see the train leave its tracks after it rammed into a truck last month. "There's just a train wreck in front of us and it's on fire," the man...
Tags: Motorvehicle Accidents, National Transportation Safety Board, Transportation Accidents, Transportation Industry, Disasters and Accidents
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For Afghan Scouts, 'Be prepared' takes on a new meaning
KABUL, Afghanistan –- Mohammad Aziz Ayob adjusts his Boy Scout scarf, leans over and settles a sapling into the dry Kabul soil as two NATO helicopters pass overhead, the clack-clack of their blades echoing off the neighboring mountains. Bobbing...
Tags: Youth Organizations, Crime, Law and Justice, Iraq, Afghanistan, Sociology
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One dead, several hurt in blast at Louisiana chemical plant- police
ReutersJune 14 (Reuters) - At least one person was killed and several others were hurt in an explosion on Friday at a Louisiana chemical plant northwest of New Orleans, police said. One person died and "probably" eight others were injured in the blast at the CF...Tags: Explosions
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Police: Second plant explosion in Louisiana, in as many days
ReutersAn explosion at a nitrogen plant in Donaldsonville, Louisiana, killed at least one worker and injured seven others on Friday, authorities said, one day after a deadly blast at another chemical plant about 10 miles away. The blast hit the CF Industries...Tags: Texas Fertilizer Plant Explosion (2013), Plant Openings, Chemical Industry, Economy, Business and Finance, Explosions
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