Uploaded July 2016 | Updated September 2026, 13 hours ago

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On April 17, 2013, an ammonium nitrate explosion rocked the town of West, Texas, killing 15 people, injuring over 160, and destroying over 150 homes and businesses. To find out how poor hazard awareness, inadequate emergency planning and limited regulatory oversight contributed to this explosion, visit SAChE’s Certificate Program: Runaway Reactions at aiche.org/ela902