Editor’s Note: This article is dedicated to the firefighters who were killed when an ammonium nitrate explosion occurred at the West Fertilizer Company storage and distribution facility in West, TX.

Despite a century-long and worldwide history of tragic ammonium nitrate accidents, only a patchwork of inadequate U.S. safety regulations is in place to avoid more accidents involving this common ...

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WERE DEALING WITH AND HOW MUCH. >> WINSTON-SALEM FIRST RESPONDERS ARE NOW AT WEAVER FERTILIZER PLANT AFTER THE FIRE ERUPTED THERE MONDAY NIGHT. >> LOUIS TRAN WAS AT THIS AFTERNOON’S PRESS CONFERENCE ...

WILMINGTON — A leaking 55‑gallon drum of hydrofluoric acid triggered a large‑scale hazmat operation last week after firefighters discovered the corrosive chemical stored in the same trailer as ...

Two dry solids --- barium hydroxide and ammonium nitrate --- are mixed to produce an endothermic reaction. The temperature of the mixture drops approximately 45oC and is cold enough to freeze the ...

WASHINGTON - More than 15 years after a fertilizer bomb was used to blow up a government building in Oklahoma City, killing 168 people, the federal government is proposing to regulate the sale and ...