A fire anywhere is cause for concern, but a fire at a fertilizer plant is a potential catastrophe. That's because ammonium nitrate, a chemical commonly used in agricultural fertilizers, is a highly ...

The guidance document recommends equipping AN storage areas with automatic fire sprinklers and not storing more than 2,500 tons of bagged AN without such a system. EPA, OSHA, and the Bureau of Alcohol ...

We now have the details on the 24 federal workplace safety violations filed this week in the West Fertilizer explosion, which killed 15 people the evening of April 17. All 24 violations are classified ...

Will Paybody looks to solid ammonium nitrate as his main nitrogen fertiliser source. It gives him the consistency he is looking for across the farm’s 36m tramline system on his family’s undulating ...