For now, these are 15 of the biggest manmade explosions in history, along with some ... An accidental explosion of 4,500 tons of ammonium sulfate and ammonium nitrate fertilizer exploded at ...

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Why was the explosion so massive? "The plant uses ammonium nitrate in fertilizer production, the same chemical used in 1995's Oklahoma City Bombing," says Siobhan Morris at Newstalk 1010.

Some of the world’s deadliest industrial accidents have involved ammonium nitrate, including a 2013 explosion at a Texas fertilizer plant. The U.S. Chemical Safety Board, an independent federal agency ...

But according to the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), "contamination of ammonium nitrate is generally expected to increase the likelihood of an explosion if that ammonium nitrate is subject to a ...

The State Government will make law changes and introduce a new code of practice in a bid to prevent future massive explosions like the one involving a truck transporting ammonium nitrate emulsion in ...

The tanker was carrying 42 tonnes of ammonium nitrate, which triggered an explosion. "Just after 9:40am, a blast was heard and felt and there was a visible large cloud of smoke," Superintendent ...