Date: Sun, 7 Feb 2010 17:35:46 -0500
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From: Ralph Stuart <rstuart**At_Symbol_Here**UVM.EDU>
Subject: Re: Explosion at Connecticut Power Plant
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> An explosion at a power plant being built in Middletown ,Connecticut 
caused several injuries and fatalities.
> 
> http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/hotstories/6855851.html
> 
=46rom the first paragraph:
MIDDLETOWN, Conn. =97 An explosion blew apart a power plant under 
construction as workers purged natural gas lines Sunday, killing 
multiple people and injuring at least 14 in a blast that shook homes for 
miles, officials said.

I believe that purging of natural gas lines was what the Chemical Safety 
Board was concerned with in the ConAgra explosion...

- Ralph

Ralph Stuart, CIH 
Environmental Safety Manager 
University of Vermont 
Environmental Safety Facility 
667 Spear St. Burlington, VT  05405 

rstuart**At_Symbol_Here**uvm.edu 

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