Explosion at Lake City...

[fjruple]

How about the one they had a Frankford Arsenal in 1917... Philadelphia, PA Frankford Arsenal Explosions, Sep 1917 | GenDisasters ... Genealogy in Tragedy, Disasters, Fires, Floods

Jim -- There was another incident in WWII at the Frankford Arsenal. The incident was smaller in nature but just as deadly. I believe I indicated that I had investigated several of these incident over the years. I remember as part my training an incident that took place in WWII. I believe everyone knows that the Frankford Arsenal (Northern Philadelphia) in WWII manufactured many different types of munitions for the US government. Especially .30-06 Springfield ammo, one of the workers on the production line duties was to take buckets of rifle primers and feed the primers into the primer seating machine. While carrying two buckets of loose primers, one of the buckets detonated which in turn set off the other bucket. It appears the worker was jostling the buckets as he walked to and from the primer seating machine. Of course he was killed and several others seriously injuried.

--fjruple

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That was the one I sought first but forgot the location...I knew there was a particularly bad one.

This property was next to the Eddystone Rifle manufacturing facilities which was leased from Baldwin. In fact the Eddystone munitions company where the explosion took place was owned and operated by the Baldwin Locomotive works. I bet it blew a lot of the glass windows out the Rifle factory.

--fjruple