UNTOUCHABLE EXPLOSIVE
DELLUATIi DRYING OPERATION LONDON, April 20—The explosive which blew up and killed a man at the Witton, Birmingham, ammunition works of Imperial Chemical industries on March 22 is so sensitive to. friction while being dried that it cannot be bandied. When a verdict of “accidental death” was recorded at the inquest on Charles Carter, the man killed in the explosion, the deputy manager of the works said: .“The hut where the explosion .occurred was used for dryin glead styphnate. '£his. is so sensitive to friction, especially when being dried, that it is never handled during the process. “The drying operation is, in fact, controlled from a separate hut.” No ciio should enter the hut until the process was completed. Carter must have done so, but- the reason was not known.
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Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 192, 9 June 1939, Page 3
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132UNTOUCHABLE EXPLOSIVE Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 192, 9 June 1939, Page 3
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