Texas City Disaster

Published at × in Modern Texas History: The Worst Industrial Disaster in U.S. History

The smoking remains of the Monsanto chemical plant in the aftermath of the Texas City Disaster, in which nearly 600 people were killed by an explosion of ammonium nitrate fertilizer being transported by the SS Grandcamp, 22nd April 1947. (Photo by Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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