anybody near that elevator explosion in Ks?

BCnT · Oct 30, 2011

i was about 3 blocks away from the Bunge elevator in Galveston when it blew...had a couple friends hurt pretty bad...hope everybody in Kansas ok.

Ken 46 · Oct 30, 2011

Where in Kansas???????????????

rustyfarmall · Oct 30, 2011

(reply to post at 09:31:53 10/30/11)

3 dead, 3 missing.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/10/29/grain-elevator-explodes-in-kansas/?test=latestnews

NEKS · Oct 30, 2011

Atchison, Ks. A friend I knew was one of the six that was killed. Knew his grandpa and all the rest of his family. Think he has two boys and was living on his grandpa's place. He was a grain inspector for the state of Kansas. Whenever a unit train was loading he had to be there to collect grain samples. As of 11:00 this morning they still had not found his body yet.

NEKS · Oct 30, 2011

Atchison Daily Globe is the paper in Atchison. Sorry I don't know how to make it so you can just click on it. Both grain inspectors were out of Topeka, Ks.

greenbeanman in Kansas · Oct 30, 2011

This link to the story from Saturday.
Elevator explosion news story

greenbeanman in Kansas · Oct 30, 2011

A later story.
A later story

S.Crum · Oct 30, 2011

My prayers go to the families affected by this. I work in a grain handling facility and preach on this very point continually. The need to keep dust under control and all work areas cleaned up on an ongoing basis. Any arguements (yes there have been a few) about smoking in the plant are squashed immediately. Don't they teach these hazards in physical science classes anymore? I still vividly remember Mr. Weiss our 7th grade science teacher demonstrating a dust explosion with a 1 gallon paint can with a tube soldered into the side at the bottom. He placed a lit candle in the can and placed a pinch of talcum powder in from of the tube and placed the lid on the can. He then blew into the tube and a loud boom and fireball ensued, and the lid hit the ceiling. No question in my mind just how dangerous a dust explosion can be.

Doug in Illinois · Oct 31, 2011

I spent 7 years in a high volume grain elevator in Nebraska back in the 70's. We were the rail head for 4 other elevators.

We kept our concrete house super clean. The old wood frame not so much, it was harder to keep clean with all the places dust could get because of cracks in the wood.

Anyhow, we came really close to blowing up the wood frame when we were shoveling up the corn from a slugged leg back into the leg. Lots of dust when you do that.

One of us swung a shovel too far back, and shattered a "caged" light bulb. The dust cleared instantly, but there was no secondary explosion which we were fully expecting in the next split second.

The first small explosion usually knocks loose all the dust everywhere. That dust is the big explosion. DOUG

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