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Post by shred on Sept 23, 2013 14:13:23 GMT -5
Back in the 1990's my father worked as a paper technologist at Hickson and Welch down Wheldon Road in Castleford. On the 21st of September 1992 I returned home from School to discover that there had been a lethal explosion at Hickson and Welch and that there had been deaths.
I couldn't believe it was happening, my Dad had to be ok. We phoned my Dad's office, to check he was alright, no reply. We phoned his car phone, no reply. We started to worry, watching the TV, the blast had hit the control building and the offices.
About half an hour later, maybe longer, our phone rang. It was Dad. My Dad was ok, he'd been on his way back from lunch when the explosion happened. Five minutes later and he'd have been killed when the blast hit his office. Tragically some of his colleagues from work were injured, one girl very new to the job was in a Portakabin when the fireball hit. She died after suffering 90% burns.
RIP those who died.
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Post by peteetongman on Sept 23, 2013 14:48:59 GMT -5
wow that's not a happy ending for his colleague(s). I worked in an aerosol plant once and we had a propane explosion that blew out a huge section of cinderblock wall and lifted the roof. i think I have pics I can post in a few. No fatalities, but one critical burn patient (choppered to Augusta GA burn unit) who turned out fine after 6 months of healing
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Post by shred on Sept 23, 2013 16:36:17 GMT -5
It was awful, but luckily for my Dad he wasn't in his office. In 1974 there was an terrible explosion at the old Nypro plant at Flixborough North Lincolnshire, luckily it happened on a day when very few people were working there (28 were killed 36 were seriously injured), that explosion was so powerful it blew the roofs off houses five miles away. www.hse.gov.uk/comah/sragtech/caseflixboroug74.htmI'm glad nobody died in the accident at the aerosol plant, propane is energetic stuff.
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Post by peteetongman on Sept 23, 2013 18:39:35 GMT -5
It was awful, but luckily for my Dad he wasn't in his office. In 1974 there was an terrible explosion at the old Nypro plant at Flixborough North Lincolnshire, luckily it happened on a day when very few people were working there (28 were killed 36 were seriously injured), that explosion was so powerful it blew the roofs off houses five miles away. www.hse.gov.uk/comah/sragtech/caseflixboroug74.htmI'm glad nobody died in the accident at the aerosol plant, propane is energetic stuff. yeah we had about 1 million filled aerosols back in that area. now, mind you, some used CO2 as the propellant, some used nitrogen, but the vast majority were propane. there were two young ladies working in a relatively small room back there, and I fkng KNEW they were dead, just KNEW it. I was so glad to see both of them alive and unhurt I damn near cried. the kid that was burned was 21 years old, and he had just started working for the company that very morning. He came running down into my area with his clothes on fire, just like in the movies. After we smothered the fire on his clothes, we made the quick decision to just carry him to the E-Room in a passenger car. We were almost within sight of the local hospital so he was at the hospital in, literally, 2 minutes. They immediately cut a trach hole so he could breathe and called for a helicopter. The kid came into my office about 6 months later and looked terrific. He only had minor scarring around the waist where the fire was trailing him as he ran.
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Post by shred on Sept 24, 2013 3:03:55 GMT -5
Bloody hell! Glad he's ok!
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Post by peteetongman on Sept 24, 2013 6:51:11 GMT -5
Bloody hell! Glad he's ok! that Nypro blast sounds like one hell of a deal. God bless the victims
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Post by shred on Sept 24, 2013 11:00:37 GMT -5
A retired instructor from my club was up in a K6 near Scun thorpe when the Nypro explosion happened, he nearly bailed out because of the force of the blast which shook his plane.
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Post by richardcavessa on Sept 24, 2013 12:55:47 GMT -5
shredder didn't you have a person that was close during 911 also? or just coincidence?
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Post by shred on Sept 25, 2013 2:20:03 GMT -5
Paul Berriff, who is my best friend's uncle was nearly killed on 11/9/2001. I never met Paul but his niece is lovely, his sister used to take me to school with his niece some times in the 1980's.
This is Pauls footage of WTC2's collapse:
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Post by richardcavessa on Sept 25, 2013 12:52:46 GMT -5
ic ty
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Post by shred on Sept 25, 2013 13:56:27 GMT -5
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