Chemical Board, OSHA Send Teams to Box Factory After Blast Kills 4

April 6, 2017, 3:14 PM UTC

A Missouri packaging manufacturer is the subject of two federal agency probes after one worker and three others were killed from an explosion April 3 at the company’s plant.

The Chemical Safety Board says it is sending a team of investigators to the site of the Loy-Lange Box Co. in St. Louis after reports that a boiler exploded at the plant at about 7:30 a.m. and killed a worker. Two others died when the boiler flew about 500 feet in the air and landed on a nearby laundry facility. A third person died April 5, according to news reports. ...

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