58: West Fertilizer Company
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March 31, 2025 · 31 min · Season 1 · Episode 58
About this episode
The episode discusses the catastrophic explosion at the West Fertilizer Company in Texas, highlighting regulatory failures.
In the early hours of the evening on the 17th of April, 2013 in the small city of West, Texas...smoke was seen emanating from the West Fertilizer Company building. In 20 minutes there was a massive explosion that levelled the facility and its surroundings, killing 15 people and injuring hundreds more. How this came to be, represented a failure of regulations, planning and grandfathering on every level.
Topics covered
- explosion
- regulations
- safety
- disaster
- planning
- failure
Keywords
- West Fertilizer Company
- explosion
- Texas
- regulations
- safety
- disaster
- April 2013
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: West Fertilizer Company
Places: West, Texas
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