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Mill Explosion in Jay Maine yesterday


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Dust explosions in mills are bad news. I remember one of them in town as a kid having a few explosions when I was growing up. 

The problems we face today exist because the people who work for a living are outnumbered by the people who vote for a living.

The government can only "give" someone what they first take from another.

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In this case it’s a steam explosion. We have the same process in the fiber digester system. It uses 250lb steam to break down the fiber like a giant pressure cooker. 

In 2009 we had a silo explosion that killed three and injured one welder. That was legitimate methane. The bugs used in our water treatment got loose and infected an upstream pulp silo. They started eating fresh stock and releasing methane. Nobody knew it could happen, they thought it was internally sanitary.  Blew the top open on which the workers were standing. 

Thank the Lord no one got hit, that’s a lot of energy & steam. Must have shook’em like a rag doll. 

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