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HWY. 75 SOUTH, CROOKSTON, MN 56716
Standard 19100111 B01 IV
Standard 19100111 B09 IX
Standard 19100111 B07 I
Standard 19100111 B07 IV
Employee dies of anhydrous ammonia exposure
On April 21, 1990, Employee #1 was standing by his truck at Terra International, Inc., a fertilizer plant in Crookston, MN, waiting for his load of clay to be u nloaded. An expansion joint on a railroad car's pipeline for unloading anhydrous ammonia blew out and Employee #1 was enveloped in a cloud of both liquid and va porized anhydrous ammonia. He died on May 2, 1990. The exact cause of death is u nknown but a factor was probably that his lungs were burned by the ammonia.
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