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One Fatality At Air Liquide Plant

by Marc S. Reisch
February 18, 2013 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 91, Issue 7

One person was killed and another was seriously injured after an explosion and fire on Feb. 9 in a lab at an Air Liquide plant in La Porte, Texas, 25 miles east of Houston. Images of the site show a gaping hole in the roof of a building. A spokeswoman for the industrial gases firm says the cause is still under investigation. Pipelines, a hydrogen unit, and air separation units producing oxygen, nitrogen, and argon were undamaged, and customers continue to receive supplies, the spokeswoman says.

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