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| Duct tape plant explosion - can be fixed with duct tape |
| 2005-03-31 |
| COLUMBIA, S.C. — An explosion late Wednesday rocked a plant that makes duct tape, shooting a fireball into the air and shaking homes a mile away. One employee was killed, officials said. On the plus side, there is a lot of temporary repair materials nearby The blast at the Intertape Polymer Group plant happened shortly before 11 p.m., said Bradley Anderson, Columbia fire chief. Firefighters contained the blaze less than an hour after the explosion, although a small fire continued to burn two hours after the blast, Anderson said. The identity of the dead worker was not immediately released, but it appeared he was on a boiler in the plant when it exploded. Anderson said. Emergency officials asked residents living near the plant to stay inside and turn off their ventilation systems because of thick smoke, authorities said. and use duct tape around the windows and doors to help seal them Intertape Polymer Group has its headquarters in Montreal and has 12 other plants in the United States, according to its Web site. Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side and binds the universe together. |
| Posted by:mmurray821 |
| #9 well if the dead worker was standing on the boiler at the time of the explosion they prob don't know who it was |
| Posted by: Thraing Hupoluper1864 2005-03-31 8:04:51 PM |
| #8 Civile, si ergo Fortis buses inero Novile, deus es trux Vatis inem ? Causan dux |
| Posted by: Carl in N.H. 2005-03-31 4:54:09 PM |
| #7 RC--You gotta say it out loud! ("See dee itty bitty ducks?") |
| Posted by: Dar 2005-03-31 3:45:02 PM |
#6 Mrs. Davis, that site frightens me. There's an entire page of uses for Duck Tape on animals. It includes this bit that the Marquis de Sade would be proud of:
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| Posted by: Robert Crawford 2005-03-31 3:42:59 PM |
| #5 C D E D B D ducks? What's that? "Twiki" from Buck Rogers asking about some birds he just saw? |
| Posted by: Robert Crawford 2005-03-31 3:40:26 PM |
| #4 Frank, perhaps a visit to the fashions at this site will tell you why Duck Tape brand duct tape is the one high schoolers everywhere ask for. No wonder we think it's duck tape, the commercial product most often found at crime scenes. |
| Posted by: Mrs. Davis 2005-03-31 3:26:56 PM |
| #3 C D E D B D ducks? M R not ducks! O S M R! C D E D B D wings? L I B! M R ducks! |
| Posted by: Dar 2005-03-31 2:57:05 PM |
| #2 call me picky, but it drives me crazy when people call it "duck tape" and insist that's what it is. I ask: "for what? broken ducks?" |
| Posted by: Frank G 2005-03-31 2:55:39 PM |
| #1 Steam is about 1600 times the volume of the water it came from, so even duct tape won't fix that boiler! Well, maybe it will, but you should use at least two layers... |
| Posted by: Dar 2005-03-31 2:28:07 PM |