Ammonium nitrate disasters

Columns: Country | City/Location | Date | Deaths | Notes
United States | Kansas City , Missouri | November 29 , 1988 | 6 | On November 29 , 1988 , at 4:07 AM two trailers containing approximately 50,000 lb ( 23,000 kg ) of the explosive ANFO ( ammonium nitrate with fuel oil ) exploded at a construction site located near the 87th street exit of Highway 71 in Kansas City , Missouri . The explosives were to be used in the blasting of rock while constructing Highway 71 . The result of the explosions were the deaths of six firemen from the Kansas City Fire Department 's Pumper Companies 30 and 41 . Both companies were dispatched after 911 calls indicated that a pickup truck located near the trailers had been set on fire . The responding companies were warned that there were explosives on-site ; however , they were unaware that the trailers were essentially magazines filled with explosives . At 4:07 AM one of the magazines caught fire and a catastrophic explosion occurred , killing all six firemen instantly - only sparing remains were found . A second blast occurred 40 minutes later , although all fire crews had been pulled back at this time . The blasts created two craters , each approximately 100 feet ( 30 m ) wide and 8 feet ( 2.4 m ) deep . The explosions also shattered windows within a 10-mile ( 16 km ) area and could be heard 40 miles ( 64 km ) away . It was later determined that the explosions were acts of arson , set by individuals embroiled in a labor dispute with the construction company contracted to build the highway | Papua New Guinea | Porgera Gold Mine | August 2 , 1994 | 11 | At 9:45 am , 2 August 1994 , 11 workers were killed when the sensitised AN emulsion plant they were working on exploded at the Porgera Gold Mine . The fatal explosion involved at most a few tonnes of explosive . A larger explosion of about 80 tonnes of emulsion ( Ammonium Nitrate Emulsion , ANE , UN 3375 ) was caused by fires under storage facilities at the site at 11:02 AM . There were no fatalities in the second explosion because the site had been evacuated . A mushroom cloud was seen to rise . ANE is an emulsion of ammonium nitrate , fuel and water | United States | Port Neal , Iowa | December 13 , 1994 | 4 | Port Neal fertilizer plant explosion : At about 6:06 AM on December 13 , 1994 , two explosions rocked the Port Neal , Iowa , ammonium nitrate processing plant operated by Terra Industries . Four people were killed and 18 injured . Approximately 5,700 tons of anhydrous ammonia were released and releases of ammonia continued for six days after the explosions . Groundwater under the processing plant was contaminated by chemicals released as a result of the blast . The timing of the explosion occurred prior to the start of the arrival of the 8:00 AM shift personnel , or the death toll might have been larger | China | Xingping , Shaanxi | January 6 , 1998 | 22 | At midnight on January 6 , 1998 , the Xinghua Fertilizer company had a series of explosions in the plant . About 27.6 tons of ammonium nitrate liquor was in a container there . The explosion claimed 22 lives , with a further 56 wounded . The explosion was officially announced as an accident | France | Toulouse | September 21 , 2001 | 31 | AZF : On September 21 , 2001 , at 10:15 AM , in the AZF ( Azote de France ) fertiliser factory in Toulouse , France , an explosion occurred in a warehouse where the off-specification granular AN was stored flat , separated by partitions . About 200-300 tons were said to be involved in the explosion , resulting in 31 people dead and 2,442 injured , 34 of them seriously . The blast wave shattered windows up to 3 km away , and the resulting crater was 10 m deep and 50 m wide . The exact cause remains unknown . The material damage was estimated at 2.3 billion euros . France 's Environment Minister initially suggested the explosion may have been a terrorist attack as it occurred soon after the September 11 attacks and one worker may have had militant views | Spain | Cartagena , Murcia | January 2003 | 0 | The fertilizer storage facility of Fertiberia held a self-sustained decomposition ( SSD ) fire in January 2003 . The fire was controlled after most of the material was removed by mechanical means

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