explosion | Allan Bonner Communications Management Inc.

Date: 1 June 1974 Summary: Chemical engineers predominated in a facility that occasionally needed mechanical-engineering expertise. Some repairs had been made, including using ‘dog-leg’ pipe and substituting pipe with a smaller diameter, which had caused increased pressure. The manufacturing-process included heating gasoline. A vapour cloud ignited, causing an explosion—one of the largest petrochemical-plant explosions in