Which is considered the worst industrial accident in United States history?

I was almost five when it happened. We lived in Galveston and let out early, my brother was at school. My dad had been working there painting the tanks. He and a coworker decided to go to get a beer.Daddy came home and he was all black from the smoke from the blast. His car won't start so he walked home. My mom was down stairs hanging the clothes on rope. I was in bathroom getting into the medicine cabinet, and it shooked the house and I fell down and cried. My mom ran upstairs to see if I was ok. She thought the hot water tank blew up. I was ok cause the tank was down stairs. I didn't get a spanking cause Mama was glad I was ok.

We saw the spot where the anchor landed in town. It was immense, could have destroyed a house.

Wish I knew the Human stories resulting from—circling—this moment.

Nikki~Mae, My son works in Texas City on the Bay. I had never heard this story but it was the year before I was born.

One ship loaded with ammonium nitrate exploded, then 16 hours later, the second ship loaded with ammonium nitrate exploded also. The lawsuits continued until the 1960's.

My Dad said they heard the explosion over 100 miles away!

I never knew about this, but it WAS before I was born, at any rate. And where I lived and the time in which I grew up (during racial tensions), the schools were not inclined to tell its students about things like that.