AT LEAST 1 DEAD IN INDIANA FERTILIZER PLANT EXPLOSION

The Blaze ^ | 6/24/13 | Jason Howerton

[ConservativeMan55]

UNION MILLS, Ind. (AP) — An explosion at a fertilizer plant in northwest Indiana has killed one person.

[Strategerist]

The M.O. of the BATF and FBI is to cause grain dust explosions in grain elevators? To what end?

[hal ogen]

Grain dust is explosive with a spark. You’d get the same effect if you were in a closed room, threw a handful of flour and lit a lighter. Boom...no more you and no more house.

[MARTIAL MONK]

FERTILIZER PLANT EXPLOSION

The chit hit the fan?

[CaptainMorgantown]

Almost every small farming community in northern indiana (in fact, anywhere in the midwest) has a local grain elevator. And yes, grain dust is very explosive. Working at a grain elevator is a fairly dangerous job, because the dust is also very hazardous to breathe, and shifting piles of grain can bury an uncautious worker. This is a tragedy, but a local one. Say a prayer for the good people who make sure we have food in our supermarkets.

[SomeCallMeTim]

One was nitrogen and one was fertilizer.

Uh, no... the first was an Ethylene plant, the second was an Ammonia plant... (Which gets used for fertilizer)

I've been in both facilities...

Still haven't heard any details about what cause the first one.... but, there was a LOT of work going on at that location as part of an expansion project.