What the records say
- When
- 1924
- Kind
- Industrial accident
- Coordinates
- 40.54° N, 74.38° W
- Description
- industrial explosion in New Jersey, United States
1924 Nixon Nitration Works disaster
Industrial explosion in New Jersey, United States
The 1924 Nixon Nitration Works disaster was an explosion and fire that claimed many lives and destroyed several square miles of New Jersey factories. It began on March 1, 1924, about 11:15 a.m., when an explosion destroyed a building in Nixon, New Jersey used for processing ammonium nitrate.
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- Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “catastrophe de Nixon Nitration Works à Edison (New Jersey)”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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