Major industrial explosion in Texas

[Christianna]

What are they doing having a fertlizer factory right near a town?

They built the plant far enough from Waco, others built houses around it so the workers could live close to their jobs?

 

[karrie]

What a tragedy. My heart goes out to the families and victims.

Our world doesn't run the way it currently does without men and women willing to do the hard, unrewarding industrial work for us. It's a pity when safeguards don't suffice and people die.

 

[gopher]

Watching this on CNN forty miles away it registered as a 2+ earthquake.
sixty to eighty homes damaged, apartment complex gone and a seniors
home severely damaged. Seven firemen missing, believed to be deaths and
several injuries. It even blew windows out of cars going by on the highway.
What a hell of a mess

That's a risk society takes when it promotes safety deregulation and the lessening of OSHA's authority. Hopefully this will awaken people to the need for greater work safety rules.