The 2013 explosion at West Chemical and Fertilizer Co. “should never have occurred,” the U.S. Chemical Safety Board said April 22 after it released the preliminary results of its investigation. The ...

A year ago today, a fertilizer plant in West, Texas, caught on fire. As volunteer firefighters rushed to the scene, the 30 tons of ammonium nitrate stored in wooden bins exploded. What have we learned ...

WACO -- Nearly two years after a fire set off a deadly ammonium nitrate explosion at the West Fertilizer Co., Texas businesses selling the chemical aren't subject to any new laws, and only a handful ...

AUSTIN - Nearly three years after an explosion at a fertilizer plant near Waco killed 15 people and injured scores of others, Texans still live with the threat posed by stores of ammonium nitrate, ...

More than half of the West fire department had hazardous material training. April 18, 2012— -- In the wake of a deadly fire and chemical explosion at a Texas fertilizer plant near Waco, which ...

— -- The cause of the 2013 West, Texas fertilizer plant explosion has been ruled to be incendiary, according to The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF). “This means this ...

(Reuters) -Multiple people were killed after an explosion on Friday at a military explosives plant in Tennessee, and 19 ...

Law enforcement officials in Texas have launched a criminal investigation into the explosion at the fertilizer plant in West, Texas last month that killed 15 people. Hours before, ATF officials ...

The Texas fertilizer disaster turned a routine fire call into one of the deadliest industrial explosions in U.S. history. A massive blast at a local plant killed 15 people, including 12 first ...

The Winston-Salem fire chief’s dread was based on his knowledge of deadly incidents involving ammonium nitrate in the past, ...