http://reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=TZTLTEHP4CN5KCRBAEZSFEY?type
=domesticNews&storyID=8890833 Praxair St. Louis gas plant erupts in fire Fri Jun 24, 2005 08:14 PM ET NEW YORK (Reuters) - A series of explosions and fires engulfed a Praxair Inc. welding gas plant in St. Louis on Friday, but no one was injured, authorities said. All the workers at the plant escaped before the explosions and no one was reported missing, according to spokesmen for the company and the city. "The primary concern is chemicals. According to the fire chief, there are tanks of chlorine that would be dangerous if they leaked," city spokesman Jeff Rainford said. Authorities were monitoring the air at three sites for any dangerous gases, but so far none were detected, he said. The cause of the fire was not yet known. "We do not expect the fire to have a major financial impact on the company," Praxair spokeswoman Susan Szita Gore said, adding that it was too early to tell if the explosion would have any impact at all. The plant, which employs 70 people, is one of about 400 similar operations in North America, Szita Gore said. Television showed fiery explosions and canisters flying out of the plant, where welding gas is bottled in cylinders. Not all the workers would have been at the facility at the time, a spokeswoman for the Danbury, Connecticut-based company told CNN. The South Side plant is roughly 1 mile from the downtown baseball stadium where the St. Louis Cardinals play, and the scheduled evening start of a game against the Pittsburgh Pirates was delayed for half an hour and a nearby highway temporarily closed, Rainford said. Praxair is the largest industrial gases company in North and South America, and one of the largest worldwide. The company produces, sells and distributes atmospheric, process and specialty gases and high-performance surface coating. C Reuters 2005. All Rights Reserved. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
