Some of the destruction caused by an explosion on July 1st,1918, in the Amatol Mixing House at the N
Some of the destruction caused by an explosion on July 1st,1918, in the Amatol Mixing House at the National Shell FillingFactory (Chilwell, Nottinghamshire), in which 134 people were killed, and 250 injured. Only 32 of the bodies could be identified.Women in large shell filling factories worked with TNT, a poisonousexplosive that could cause toxic jaundice, a potentially fatalcondition. During the war, there were several major explosions in which munitionsworkers were killed. -- source link
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