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'Major chemical explosion' kills, injures multiple people
- SilverElfin 5mo agoNote: this is in Washington state not California, and is unrelated to the incident in the news the last few days, with people being evacuated in Orange County. This seems to be at a facility that creates paper products out of lumber.
- blinkbat 5mo ago[flagged]
- SilverElfin 5mo agoApparently it’s a subsidiary of a Japanese paper products company: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nippon_Paper_Industries https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nippon_Paper_Industries I guess this subsidiary was a part of Weyerhaeuser before and was sold to Nippon Paper Industries 10 years ago: https://investor.weyerhaeuser.com/2016-08-31-Weyerhaeuser-Completes-Sale-of-Liquid-Packaging-Board-Business-to-Nippon-Paper-Industries https://investor.weyerhaeuser.com/2016-08-31-Weyerhaeuser-Co...
- s1artibartfast 5mo agoPeople will "sense" whatever they want based on their fears and insecurities. Workplace deads have decreased steadily over time- never have things been safer. They are about about 1/3 of the 1970's despite the US population increasing by 140 million.
- jerlam 5mo agoHow much of the decrease is due to those dangerous jobs being outsourced to other countries, and the US becoming a service economy with office jobs? How much of the decrease is due to safety organizations like OSHA that are currently being dismantled under the guise that safety is uneconomic?
- s1artibartfast 5mo agoSome of both, but but it still safer than ever. If someone thinks otherwise, they are just mindkilled.
- CGMthrowaway 5mo agoA pressurised tank (110 to 165 psi) ruptured, causing the accident. The chemicals involved are NaOH and sodium sulfide (white liquor) which is what is used to turn wood chips into pulp - and the source of the H2S smell that comes from paper mills