Today’s podcast has to deal with the worst industrial accident in American history.  And like many catastrophic incidents, while there may be a large loss of life, there were also good things to come out of the incident – safety precautions that have no doubt saved lives since the original incident occurred.

As usual you can download the podcast at this link, find us on iTunes, or listen to the link provided below.

Sources for the podcast include:

• Wikipedia, Texas City Disaster, Texas City Refinery Explosion, Largest artificial non-nuclear explosions
• Texas City Firefighters Local 1259, Texas City Disaster
• Texas State Historical Association, Texas City Disaster
• Millard Fillmore’s Bathtub (A blog), Worst Ever U.S. industrial accident, 1947: 576 dead
• Moore Memorial Public Library, 1947 Texas City Disaster
• History.com, Fertilizer explosion kills 581 in Texas