Chemical plant explodes in Tennessee

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#7
My Dad works in a building about two hundred yards away at Eastman. He's fine, but a little rattled.
 
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Read this nonsense..

Eastman said a "process upset" in the area of the plant dealing with coal gasification caused a "loud noise and a visible plume." "No injuries were reported beyond first aid."

Are these people serious? If we use the word "explosion" we will actually have to pay our workers for injuries.
 
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I live less than a mile where explosion happened. I work 12 hr shifts at water treatment plant for city and worked last night. This morning I was getting ready to sleep and felt the house shake, then drove around Eastman and didn't see nothing and I got breakfast at burgerking when coming back home . When I was at home eating breakfast I heard a bigger rumble and shake and immediately got in my car and about less than mile from my house and noticed part of coal gasification division was on fire. I could hear flames roaring from my house. Needless to say I packed my sh!t and sleep at my in laws house several miles up the road. Thank God everyone is ok but lot of people are still in safe havens.
 
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#11
Same month and day as the big one back in 1960.

Extremely happy and amazed no one was hurt in my little town!
 
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#13
I was on the old ball fields one day when a guy doing some welding got into a gas line in that tall building by the river. Blew out every window on the side of the building closest to us. I had never heard anything that loud. They made us all go in the pavilion for safety, like that was going to help if it was something dangerous. Somehow the worker didn’t die but was hurt pretty badly.
 
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Coug said:
Read this nonsense..

Eastman said a "process upset" in the area of the plant dealing with coal gasification caused a "loud noise and a visible plume." "No injuries were reported beyond first aid."

Are these people serious? If we use the word "explosion" we will actually have to pay our workers for injuries.
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A loud noise that I could hear at Ft Patrick Henry Lake (Warriors Path State Park) while I was on the kayak fishing, with a plume of smoke in the air...

Plus my brother in law could hear it in Church Hill.

A "process upset" that caused an area to have to shelter in place....
 
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1725gatorhater said:
I live less than a mile where explosion happened. I work 12 hr shifts at water treatment plant for city and worked last night. This morning I was getting ready to sleep and felt the house shake, then drove around Eastman and didn't see nothing and I got breakfast at burgerking when coming back home . When I was at home eating breakfast I heard a bigger rumble and shake and immediately got in my car and about less than mile from my house and noticed part of coal gasification division was on fire. I could hear flames roaring from my house. Needless to say I packed my sh!t and sleep at my in laws house several miles up the road. Thank God everyone is ok but lot of people are still in safe havens.
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I had heard there was a fire in that area earlier today as well.
 
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Plano Vol said:
Same month and day as the big one back in 1960.
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My wife texted me the video of the explosion today and she added "16 people dead". I showed the video to a co-worker and we talked about how bad we felt for all those families.

Later, when I had time, I looked up news on it and had to text my wife back, explaining that today's explosion happened on the anniversary of another explosion and those 16 people actually died 57 years ago. She sometimes reads a bit carelessly.
 
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Plano Vol said:
Same month and day as the big one back in 1960.

Extremely happy and amazed no one was hurt in my little town!
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My grandfather was actually hurt in that one, they were experimenting with nitroglycerin and it became to warm. Luckily no one was injured in this one.
 
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jhamilton1208 said:
A loud noise that I could hear at Ft Patrick Henry Lake (Warriors Path State Park) while I was on the kayak fishing, with a plume of smoke in the air...

Plus my brother in law could hear it in Church Hill.

A "process upset" that caused an area to have to shelter in place....
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You drove by my house. Small world.
 
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