The blast took place at the West Fertilizer Plant, about 18 miles north of Waco.
All this from a single 108, 000-barrel-a-day teakettle in Coffeyville, Kans. (pop. 11, 000) and a fertilizer plant nearby.
The town's high school and middle school, also close to the fertilizer plant, sustained heavy damage as well.
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Some firefighters at the scene of a fertilizer plant explosion in Texas were concerned Wednesday night about anhydrous ammonia.
Two days later, he was in his home state of Texas when he saw a fertilizer plant explode near Waco.
Crawford noticed the proximity of the schools to the fertilizer plant when he came down from Dallas to interview for the superintendent job.
The streets look like a bad storm rumbled through, not the deadliest fertilizer plant explosion since 31 were killed in Toulouse, France, in 2001.
The fertilizer plant exploded in West, Texas, which is only 20 miles or so from Waco, the site of the David Koresh compound fire.
The fertilizer plant, which was last inspected by OSHA in 1985, wasn't part of an OSHA program launched in 2011 for increased inspections of chemical facilities.
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In West, Texas, which is near Waco, a fertilizer plant exploded on Wednesday, killing at least five people, injuring more than 160, and leveling homes, apartments and a school.
The next frame of the cartoon shows a huge explosion alluding to the April 17 fertilizer plant tragedy in West, Texas, that killed 14 people, injured up to 200 and destroyed more than 100 homes.
"At this time authorities will not speculate whether the possession of the unregistered destructive device has any connection to the West fertilizer plant explosion, " the U.S. attorney's office for the Western District of Texas said in a release.
Or if the problem is regulatory oversight, how strong is a country where parts of a town are destroyed by the explosion of a fertilizer plant that had not had an inspection in more than two decades?
At a fertilizer plant near Chengdu, a team looking for what may be 200 quake victims found a survivor: Liu Deyun, 50, who had been trapped on the bottom floor of the factory, his arm and leg pinned by rubble.
The Science of Success is short on concrete examples, and Koch acknowledges that implementing his Market Based Management can be difficult because of the hazy connection between, say, property rights and the day-to-day decisions of a midlevel manager in charge of a fertilizer plant.
In 1960, Texas Grain Storage added a small fertilizer blend plant for farmers in the area and started selling fertilizer and grain-storage services for other farmers in Texas, the company said in the court filing.
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It later built a small fertilizer-blend plant and started selling fertilizer to area farmers.
Initial tests showed the device contained ammonium nitrate, the same volatile substance that sparked a massive explosion last month at a fertilizer distribution plant 110 miles north in West, Texas, said Austin fire Lt.
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The explosion at West Fertilizer's plant ruined much of the north side of town, and left hundreds of people injured, homeless and in need of help.
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WEST, Texas (CNN) -- One by one, the beleaguered townspeople of West, Texas, filed into local churches Sunday to begin the healing process, following last week's deadly blast at the nearby West Fertilizer Co. plant.
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Given the importance of all kinds of chemicals to industry around the world and the ease with which virtually any fertilizer, pharmaceutical or plastics manufacturing plant can be used, when required, to make a batch of weapons agent, no ban on production can solve or even substantially mitigate the chemical weapons problem.
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The plant also exports highly nutritious fertilizer to agricultural land across east Lancashire for farmers free of charge.
The device, which resembles the sawed-off head of a driver golf club, uses its Plant Care Engine (or PCE as its literature so abbreviates) to detect such important plant growth criteria as water, fertilizer, humidity, temperature and light.
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The president of West Fertilizer is Ted Uptmore, whose family is prominent in West and operates a livestock auction business near the plant called West Auctions.
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