A chemical plant in nearby Crosby, TX manufactures a class of unstable compounds called organic peroxides. One is TATP, the explosive the infamous "Shoe Bomber" attempted to use aboard a flight.
A police deputy was sent to hospital after inhaling fumes from an explosion, fire and smoke at a flooded chemical plant outside Texas. Nine others drove themselves to hospital as a precaution, the ...
KHOU-TV in Houston is reporting at 4:38 am CDT (5:38 am EDT) that two explosions have been confirmed at the flooded Arkema chemical plant in Crosby, Texas. The plant manufactures chemicals called ...