n2skdvn 0 #1 January 29, 2003 bad blast levels factory http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,77001,00.html pray for the workersif my calculations are correct SLINKY + ESCULATOR = EVERLASTING FUN my site Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
flyangel2 2 #2 January 29, 2003 They are in my thoughts. Sad, very sad.May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds. - Edward Abbey Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
skygal3 0 #3 January 29, 2003 absolutely horrible. the pictures are terrible, I cannot imagine what they are going through. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
r2hubert 0 #4 January 29, 2003 I don't know what this article is about, but it was blocked by our filter... -- Renaud SMA #9 "Mind is like parachute. It only functions when it's open." Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
n2skdvn 0 #5 January 29, 2003 here ya go... Scores of others were feared trapped inside the mass of twisted steel that was the West Pharmaceutical plant. A hospital spokeswoman confirmed the fatalities and city manager Ralph Clark said some workers were believed to still be inside the plant hours after the explosion. "We're trying to get them out," he said. He had few details, but police said at least 100 workers has failed to contact their families as of 3:30 p.m., two hours after the explosion. The cause of the blast was not immediately known. The building was still burning three hours after the explosion, and the column of smoke rising from the site was punctuated by small, bursting fireballs. Nearby trees and brush were aflame. Lee Edwards, who lives about a tenth of a mile from the plant, said he saw debris from two 800-foot water towers flying through the air at about 1:30 p.m. "All I can see is just the black smoke, just billowing up in the air. I mean, the whole sky is black," he said. "That whole building is gone." Jack Lambert, who works at Segrave Aviation nearby, ran toward the plant to help people get out and saw about a dozen people with burns on their arms and backs. "It smells like a bunch of rubber," Lambert said in a televised interview. The Lenoir County Sheriff's Department notified the medical examiner eight people had died, said Jane Martin at Pitt Memorial Hospital. The exact number of those injured because victims were being transferred between area hospitals. West Pharmaceutical Services Inc. makes pharmaceutical delivery and medical devices. The company's Web site said its Kinston plant employs about 225 people producing syringe plungers and IV supplies in this city of 25,000 about 70 miles southeast of Raleigh. It wasn't known how many people were working in the plant at the time of the explosion. A spokeswoman at company headquarters in Lionville, Pa., had no immediate comment. Trading of the company's stock was halted on the New York Stock Exchange. The blast was felt for miles. Hugh Pollock, headmaster of nearby Arendell Parrott Academy, said windows in his building burst from their frames and one child was cut on the head by broken glass. The private school was evacuated. "It was quite an explosion. It lasted for several seconds," he said. "It almost felt like an earthquake was taking place." The factory is close to Global Transpark, a onetime commercial airstrip now used mainly by military aircraft. Christopher White, a spokesman for the Federal Aviation Administration in Atlanta, said no aircraft were involved. According to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, the plant was inspected in October, cited for numerous safety violations and fined about $10,000. State labor spokesman Juan Santos said the fine was reduced to $9,075 in an informal settlement Jan. 8. North Carolina is the site of one of the nation's worst workplace disasters. Twenty-four employees and a delivery man died and 56 people were injured in a 1991 fire sparked when hydraulic fluid from a conveyor belt sprayed over a gas-fired chicken fryer at Roe's Imperial Food Products plant in Hamlet. The Associated Press contributed to this report. if my calculations are correct SLINKY + ESCULATOR = EVERLASTING FUN my site Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
r2hubert 0 #6 January 29, 2003 Whoua that's horrible.... -- Renaud SMA #9 "Mind is like parachute. It only functions when it's open." Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ChileRelleno 0 #7 January 30, 2003 Dang'it boy, building go ka'boom! ChileRelleno-Rodriguez Bro#414 Hellfish#511,MuffBro#3532,AnvilBro#9, D24868 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
LouDiamond 1 #8 January 30, 2003 QuoteNorth Carolina is the site of one of the nation's worst workplace disasters. Twenty-four employees and a delivery man died and 56 people were injured in a 1991 fire sparked when hydraulic fluid from a conveyor belt sprayed over a gas-fired chicken fryer at Roe's Imperial Food Products plant in Hamlet. I can't believe I still hear about this accident. i've had people who've never been to NC tell me about this one. To this day that remains one of the most memorable accidents in and around NC. Pretty much jacked up hamlet's economy since EVERYONE worked in the damn place. It's not a good thing when your employer chains the emergency doors shut I'm told."It's just skydiving..additional drama is not required" Some people dream about flying, I live my dream SKYMONKEY PUBLISHING Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
