What the records say
- When
- 1 Jun 1974
- Kind
- Industrial accident
- Coordinates
- 53.62° N, 0.70° W
- Description
- 1974 industrial accident in England
- Deaths
- 28
- Injured
- 36
2 sources record it
- Wikidata: air, rail, road, mining and industrial accidentsWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “28 people are killed in the Flixborough disaster”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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