Separate similar sites chemical plant this week in Louisiana is America's most deadly explosion safety production work. This does not prevent people and emergency personnel keep watchful eyes along the Mississippi River in hundreds of stretching from New Orleans to baton rouge facility.
Due to the volatility of many products, explosion, chemical leakage etc., is a real threat. Emergency officials say they are well trained to react, but residents worried about what will happen in the future.
Threat to emphasize on Friday, when the second deadly explosion in a few miles from the factory is located in the site the day before the fatal explosion.
"In most cases, day after day, every month, every year, you don't really think about it, said:" ascension parish members Travis Turner, guy, who lives about 4 miles from the plant early in the explosion. "Everyone knows someone - brothers or Cousins or uncle who works in a factory. When something happened, and everyone is worried about the worst case, just like yesterday."
State and local officials welcomed the oil refineries, chemical plants and related industry, its heavy capital investment and good well-paid jobs. Louisiana is experiencing a boom of new plants and expanding, to drive the low natural gas prices, as well as the region's strategic advantage.
Louisiana economic development is more important than a $3 billion investment announced since 2011 in Louisiana, not including several upgrades. One of which is a $40 billion expansion of Williams company factory two workers were killed and dozens injured on Thursday to hear the result of the miles explosion.
On Friday, a separate, smaller explosion occurred at donaldson, miles away, one person killed and five injured, state police said. The identity of the slain, did not immediately released.
Donaldson, and gus horse lies between ascension parish and across the Mississippi River, New Orleans and baton rouge.
Because Thursday's explosion killed workers and athletes for Scott, 47, saint AMANT, and Za chary green, 29, Hammond. Give in to his injured athletes Friday.
The U.S. department of labor occupational safety and health administration are investigating. , a spokesman for the department of health and company officials said the explosion reason is unclear, but the federal bureau of investigation (fbi) ruled out terrorism.
This could be easily concluded that working in a chemical plant, is a dangerous job, but another statistics said. In chemical production plants, 25 people were killed nationwide in 2011, according to the bureau of labor statistics. This is a case fatality rate 1.9%, 100000 full-time workers, almost half of the rate of all the workers.
Nationally, 3.8 per 100 full-time workers were injured in 2011, according to the occupational safety and health administration. Casualty rate was 2.4 and 0.6 of the general chemical manufacturing of Williams chemical manufacturing plant, including in the area. Any manufacturing was between the lowest rate.
RON said perry, director of emergency preparedness in st. Charles parish, worry about chemicals accidents rank "somewhere in the middle was concerned about his" list. Hurricane is at the top at this time of year. In addition to about 25 major oil and chemical facilities, and a nuclear power plant. Large factory internal fire fighting force, fire department and the plant agree with each other and help each other. Perry says, such mutual agreement, in fact, the large concentrated industry safer.
Greatly small accident in Louisiana, part driven by the extraordinary density along the Mississippi River downstream, sometimes than to Germany's ruhr industrial area in the chemical and oil refining industries. Only the Houston area corridor can compare the state of Louisiana, Mississippi River to provide fresh water and pipeline in a complex system away from the factory and the products of raw materials. According to a report by the Louisiana chemical industry association, released in March, has 311 parishes along the Mississippi River from the mouth of the rouge, 15727 employees in 2012, the chemical manufacturers. These figures do not include oil refining, is in itself an important existence, as well as some plastic manufacturers.
"This is a very important department in our economy, and said," Ian finches tares, baton rouge area chamber of commerce executive director of business development. "In general, these is a very ideal job, because they are high salary and high skill talents."
Announced since 2011 in new plants and expanding earn an average of nearly $70000, according to the country. This is significantly higher than the median household income is about 43000 years in Louisiana.



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