Remembering the 11 men killed in the Washington chemical tank implosion


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Officials have identified all 11 victims killed when a chemical tank at the plant in Longview, Washington, imploded.

LONGVIEW, Wash. — Family members are mourning the employees killed in the industrial accident at a Longview, Washington, paper mill as officials continue to investigate what caused the deadly incident.

At the Nippon Dynawave facility, an approximately 600,000-gallon tank containing white liquor — a mixture of sodium hydroxide, sodium sulfide and disodium carbonate used in the papermaking process — ruptured around 7:15 a.m. May 26 during a shift change.

The ruptu...

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