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A draft report by investigators into the accident at Sierra Chemical Co.'s facility in Mustang, NV, recommends more extensive training in explosives plants. Probers for the Chemical Safety Board note that employee training at the Sierra Chemical plant was performed predominantly in an informal, ineffective manner, with heavy reliance on on-the-job training. The facility, which produced PETN, TNT and Comp-B, was destroyed in January 1998, in an accident that killed four workers and injured three others. The event happened when an operator turned on a mixing-pot motor, resulting in the detonation of explosives that had solidified in the pot overnight.
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Draft report into the accident at company's facility in Mustang, NV, recommends more extensive training in explosives plants
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