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how did men enter a tank declared safe?
how did men enter a tank declared safe?
A concrete cap the size of a city block shot twenty to thirty feet into the air above Bloomfield, Staten Island on February 10, 1973, killing forty workers inside a tank that had been declared empty and safe ten months earlier - only three men walked out alive. How did a polyurethane-lined LNG tank, declared inert by company inspectors, still hold deadly gas pockets months after it was drained?
In this episode, we recount the timeline that led to the February afternoon blast, the community warnings and corporate reassurances that preceded it, and the…
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