What the records say
- When
- 20 Feb 1947
- Kind
- Industrial accident
- Coordinates
- 34.03° N, 118.25° W
- Description
- Industrial explosion
- Deaths
- 17
- Injured
- 150
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 “An explosion at the O'Connor Electro-Plating Company in Los Angeles leaves 17 dead, 100 buildings damaged, and a 22 ft crater in the ground”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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