Flixborough disaster
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flixborough-disaster-165-18331728
title:
Flixborough disaster
text:
The Flixborough disaster was an explosion at a chemical plant close to the village of Flixborough, North Lincolnshire, England, on Saturday, 1 June 1974. It killed 28 and seriously injured 36 of the 72 people on site at the time. The casualty figures could have been much higher if the explosion had occurred on a weekday, when the main office area would have been occupied. A contemporary campaigner on process safety wrote "the shock waves rattled the confidence of every chemical engineer in the c
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description:
Industrial accident in North Lincolnshire, England (1974)
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flixborough_disaster
date created:
2004-05-22T02:36:19Z
date modified:
2024-08-29T20:20:30Z
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