Saturday, March 16, 2019

STANDARD OIL REFINERY EXPLOSION IN WHITING, INDIANA ON AUGUST 27, 1955



In the early morning of Aug. 27, 1955, the Standard Oil refinery in Whiting, Ind., was rocked by a titanic explosion. The destruction that followed still ranks as one of the most monumental industrial accidents in United States history -- 60 years later. An estimated 1.25 million barrels of crude oil and refined product burned and went up in smoke.



Your humble blogger recalls standing in his front yard, at the age of almost 10, and seeing the giant pillar of black smoke in the sky about 7 or 8 miles away.


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