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Chocolate Factory Blast a Deadly Reminder of Food Plant Combustion Risks

Last week’s fatal blast at a Pennsylvania chocolate factory highlighted the combustibility of food plants in general and chocolate making in particular. The powerful explosion at 75-year-old R.M. Palmer Co. – which makes chocolate eggs, bunnies, bars, coins and other …

Town Remembers 10 Girls Killed in Factory Explosion 130 Years Ago

Margaret Bau was shivering as she remembered stories about her great-grandmother Gwendolyn Lake, the mother of one of 10 girls and young women who died horrible deaths in the borough 130 years ago this month. Gwendolyn’s daughter Mary was 16 …

New Jersey Jury Awards $2.7M in Factory Explosion

A jury in northern New Jersey has awarded more than $2.7 million to the family of a man killed and several workers injured in a 2008 blast at a metal casting plant. The jury in Hackensack awarded $1.4 of the …