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Ammonium nitrate incidents

Lessons have been drawn from accidents caused by faulty handling of certain substances. Through the work carried on by Alfred Nobel, we know how to stabilize nitroglycerin in the form of dynamite, and since 1946 methods have been devised to avoid the spontaneous explosion of ammonium nitrate. Ammonia units with capacities of 1,500 tons a day have been operating for decades without incident. [Pg.12]

Such poisonings happen during explosion incidents mostly with compounds containing ammonium nitrate and nitrate derivatives from the aliphat group in insufficient quantities of oxygen in the mentioned mixtures. Their main components are carbon oxide (highest percentage), nitric and sulphur oxides etc. [Pg.70]

Two American men, Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols, used a truckload of ammonium nitrate and other materials to blow up the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, on April 19, 1995. The event was one of the worst terrorist incidents ever on American soil. [Pg.75]

Do not focus only on the hazard depicted by the placard. Thoroughly examine all hazardous materials encountered to determine all physical and chemical characteristics and hazards associated with the chemical. An incident occurred in Kansas City, Missouri, in which six firefighters were killed fighting a fire involving commercial-grade ammonium nitrate, a 1.5 Blasting Agent under the DOT hazard class... [Pg.46]

The incident in West, TX, involved (a) Only ammonium nitrate... [Pg.532]

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