Yikes! An explosion at a ball bearing plant would be like the most massive IED ever conceived of.
Prayers up for the victims.
A Ball Bearing plant blew up?
It could take decades to find all the fragments.
Prayers up for safety.
Ball bearing factory blows up?
Looks like a very rural area but a lot of cars in the parking lot, it isn’t a small plant.
Prayers for the workers who were probably just going home when it happened.
I assume the explosion itself doesn’t have to contain ball bearings.
For some reason the first thing that came to mind was a water leak
false flag by zero to take attention off of delayed healthcare mandate?
Hopefully this didnt turn into the world’s largest buckshot demonstration.
Prayers up !
Used to work at a roller bearing plant. We were a tertiary nuclear target.
Prayers for all those who are injured.
updates
>>Officials said 15 people were injured. Police said two of the injuries were serious, and those two were flown from the scene. NHBB officials said they were told the injuries were not life-threatening.
Steve Bourgeois of Peterborough Collision, which he said is about 200-300 feet from New Hampshire Ball Bearings, said he heard two explosions at about 3:30 p.m.
“It shook our building, shook the plate glass in our showroom,” he said.
The Peterborough police chief said the explosion happened on the first floor of the plant, and the windows were blown out.
Crews from more than a dozen towns, including about 100 firefighters, were headed to the scene. There was no smoke or flames showing from the building.
Eight ambulances were called to the area, and local hospitals were asked to stage for possible hazmat patients. Fire officials said there were chemicals in the building, but they didn’t know what the chemicals were.
Police advised drivers to avoid Route 202.
NHBB manufactures precision bearings used in the aerospace industry, in the defense industry and for dental applications, among others. It was founded in 1946 in Peterborough and now has three manufacturing facilities across the country.
Anyway, hope everybody is okay. This is only about an hour from my house.
Was their an Iraqi suicide bomb instructor working at the time???
I thought I read recently that ball bearings were an item we no longer made in the USA... The article pointed out that it was a threat to our national security since the supply could be cut off leaving us S-O-O-L.
I wonder if this place made them or just sold them?
Seems the East Coast is experiencing a lot of explosions, lately.
Savannah-area fire officials begin investigation into massive fire at Georgia ports
snip-”massive blaze that destroyed much of a structure that had housed nearly 2,000 tons of rubber at Savannah’s port.”
Prayers up for all concerned.
Ball bearing plant? I suspect Hogan, Newkirk, Sgt Carter, and LeBeau.