22 injured in fire, explosion at Pasadena industrial plant
Source: Houston Chronicle
Twenty-two workers were injured Saturday morning when a fiery explosion rocked a Pasadena industrial plant, officials said.
The city's Office of Emergency Management reported a level 3 incident just before 11 a.m. at Kuraray America EVAL on Choate and Bay Area Boulevard in the southern Harris County city.
There were around 250 employees and contract personnel inside the facility when a valve blew and sparked a fire, officials said. Everyone is now accounted for, according to a company spokesman
Crews quickly doused the blaze, but 20 workers suffered burns and were taken by ambulance to local hospitals, according to John Krueger, spokesman for the La Porte Office of Emergency Management. Another two were flown to hospitals.
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where factories were run by people with the full sets of human faults found everywhere on the planet? (Btw, most noncapitalist systems (few as they are) have far higher worker death rates than western democracies where people have a say, except when they go crazy.)
Would a good system of worker safety regulations strongly enforced bring injury and death rates way down regardless of who theoretically owned the means of production?
