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ACCIDENT * USA - The Tacoma blast
"It's amazing there were not more" hurtTacoma,WA,USA -The Seattle Times (Seattle,Wash,USA), by Lauren Vane, Stuart Eskenazi & Nick Perry -October 8, 2007: -- ... The truck, delivering propane, exploded Saturday at the foundry, rocketing a fireball into the air. Four were injured in the blast, with driver Charles McDonald, 64, still in the intensive-care unit at Harborview Medical Center on Sunday night. Three others with minor injuries were released Saturday from a Tacoma hospital... Although the precise cause won't be known for some time, something went wrong when the highly flammable liquified gas from the truck's cargo tank was being transferred to two storage tanks at the foundry. Propane is a backup fuel source at the foundry... "There was a leak, and the propane found an ignition source," Tacoma Fire assistant chief Dan Crotty said... Fire officials haven't determined what ignited the propane, but it may have been welding or an open furnace, Crotty said. Atlas Chief Executive Duane Britschgi said he was unaware of welding taking place nearby... (Photo by THOMAS JAMES HURST / THE SEATTLE TIMES: Crews survey the scene Sunday at the Atlas foundry. Little was left of the tanker truck, visible in the center of the photo, that ignited Saturday)
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