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- From: ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib)
- Subject: Re: munitions plants accidents
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- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 17:20:50 GMT
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- >> My cousin lives near a plant in New Jersey that makes/made dynamite and
- >> rocket engines. One morning the plant went up....
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- I can think of three but don't have much in the way of facts.
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- Not too long ago the Hercules plant in New Jersey blew up. Anyone have
- details? It should have gotten a lot of attention in the gun press
- since Hercules was a big supplier to the handloading hobby.
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- There was also the plant that made Pyrodex blowing up. Killed the Py-
- rodex inventor.
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- Then Hatcher in his Notebook wrote about the huge Picatinny Arsenal
- explosion back in the 30s.
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