The 26-year-old suffered shrapnel wounds to the head, neck, arms and chest in an explosion while working with a British unit in Sangin in 2007.

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Texas Gov. Rick Perry said he is aware of the explosion, a spokesman said, and was working to get resources into the area.

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DeGeorge told officials he suspected the explosion was caused either by "hit men" working for the opposite side in a hotly disputed case he was litigating--a "suspicious-looking fishing boat" had circled his yacht, he said--or by the negligence of a repairman who left flammable material near a stove.

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Mr Eveleigh finished working as a miner 22 years after the explosion, in 1987.

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Even the employees who had been working to fix the plant evacuated after the explosion.

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Irrespective of the reputations and the rhetoric of the Democratic and Republican parties today, the empirical correspondence between Republican presidencies and turbocharged entitlement expenditures should underscore the unsettling truth that both political parties have, on the whole, been working together in an often unspoken consensus to fuel the explosion of entitlement spending.

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In the early hours of 9 July 1912, a huge explosion ripped through Cadeby Main Colliery near Doncaster, killing 35 of the 37 miners working in that section of the pit.

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Jim Ligon, a JJ's bartender, said he wasn't working Tuesday night but started getting texts and calls from co-workers minutes after the explosion.

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An OSHA spokesman said the agency is working with the Chemical Safety Board and Environmental Protection Agency to determine the cause of the Texas explosion.

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