Ammonium nitrate disasters

Columns: Country | City/Location | Date | Deaths | Notes
Belgium | Tessenderlo | April 29 , 1942 | 189 | Another attempt to disaggregate a pile of 150 tonnes of ammonium nitrate with industrial explosives ended tragically on April 29 , 1942 : 189 people were killed , 900 wounded | United States | Texas City | April 16 , 1947 | 581 | Texas City disaster : The cargo ship Grandcamp was being loaded on April 16 , 1947 , when a fire was detected in the hold : at this point , 2300 tons of ammonium nitrate in sacks were already aboard . The captain responded by closing the hold and pumping in pressurised steam . One hour later , the ship exploded , killing several hundred people and setting fire to another vessel , the High Flyer , which was moored 250 metres away and which contained 1050 tonnes of sulfur and 960 tons of ammonium nitrate . The Grandcamp explosion also created a powerful earthshock that broke windows as far as 40 miles away and knocked two small planes flying at 1,500 feet ( 460 m ) out of the sky . The High Flyer exploded the next day , after having burned for sixteen hours . 500 tonnes of ammonium nitrate on the quayside also burned , but without exploding , probably because it was less tightly packed . All but one member of the Texas City fire department died | France | Brest | July 28 , 1947 | 29 | The Norwegian cargo ship Ocean Liberty was loaded with 3300 tonnes of ammonium nitrate and various flammable products when it caught fire at 12:30 July 28 , 1947 . The captain ordered the hold to be sealed and pressurised steam was pumped in . As this did not stop the fire , the vessel was towed out of the harbour at 14:00 , and exploded at 17:00 . The explosion caused 29 deaths and serious damage to the port of Brest | - | Red Sea | 1953 | 0 | A fire was detected on the cargo ship Tirrenia on January 23 , 1953 , while it was carrying 4000 tonnes of ammonium nitrate . Attempts to extinguish the fire with steam were unsuccessful , and the ship was abandoned before it exploded later in the night | United States | Roseburg , Oregon | August 7 , 1959 | 14 | The Roseburg Blast : A truck carrying dynamite and ammonium nitrate caught fire early in the morning of August 7 , 1959 . When it exploded it killed 14 people and injured 125 more . Several blocks of downtown Roseburg were destroyed . The accident is locally referred to as The Blast | United States | Traskwood , Arkansas | December 17 , 1960 | 0 | On December 17 , 1960 , a 96 freight car train suffered partial derailment , in which the last 23 cars were derailed . The derailed cars included : four fuel oil tank cars , two tank cars of gasoline , three tank cars of petroleum oil , four cars of lube oil drums , three cars of liquid fertilizer , one car of fuming nitric acid and two cars of fertilizer grade ammonium nitrate . In this particular accident , neither car of ammonium nitrate exploded . However , the nitric acid reacted with the fuel oil , essentially creating ANFO to feed the conflagration , resulting in the spread of the ammonium nitrate material around the incident site | Australia | Taroom , Queensland | August 30 , 1972 | 3 | A truck carrying ammonium nitrate experienced an electrical fault and caught fire north of Taroom . After the driver stopped and parked the burning truck , two brothers from a nearby cattle property who saw the fire rode up on motorbikes to assist . The three men were killed when the truck exploded . The explosion burnt out more than 2000 acres of surrounding bushland , and left a deep crater where the truck had been parked . A memorial to the three men was unveiled at the accident site in 2013

Example questions:
How much precipitation falls annually in the last city in China that suffered an incident in the 90s ? | In what county in Iowa did the last incident of 1994 happen ? | As of 2014 , how many people lived in the metro area of the city where the last French event in the city Toulouse of took place ? | How many of the people killed in the first event in Faversham , Kent were workers ?

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585 mm | Woodbury County | 1,312,304 | 100