Newspaper Clipping, March 18
Mar. 18th, 2004 05:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
morganknightIndustrial Accident Kills 23
Dozens More Wounded as Machinery Breaks
LOS ANGELES -- Twenty-three people were killed and over sixty wounded today when a spooler at a textile mill based just outside of Los Angeles self-destructed, sending fire and shrapnel racing through the factory.
Dozens of firefighters, police, and rescue workers converged on the scene just after factory alarms automatically notified Los Angeles 911 of the disaster, which occurred shortly after 4 pm. The devastation was total; Andrew Bergman, a shift manager at the mill, described the scene as "hell on Earth."
"No one could have seen it coming," he said. "One minute everything was normal -- the next I heard a terrible noise and then everything went white." Bergman was released from the hospital with only minor injuries, but many were not so fortunate.
When contacted, plant operations officer Gerald Vincent stated that he believes the disaster to have been an accident. "This tragic loss of life is something we mourn," he added, "and Knight Textiles will do everything in its power to cooperate with investigators."
Knight Textiles, a division of Knight Corporation, has recieved many odd looks lately from both public and private concerns in its thirty year history. An oddity in that the company remains in the United States of America, many California politicians have made its eventual migration out of the country a minor plank in their platforms -- only to have the plant outlast their careers. The ramifications of this disaster -- SEE TEXTILE, PAGE A13
Dozens More Wounded as Machinery Breaks
LOS ANGELES -- Twenty-three people were killed and over sixty wounded today when a spooler at a textile mill based just outside of Los Angeles self-destructed, sending fire and shrapnel racing through the factory.
Dozens of firefighters, police, and rescue workers converged on the scene just after factory alarms automatically notified Los Angeles 911 of the disaster, which occurred shortly after 4 pm. The devastation was total; Andrew Bergman, a shift manager at the mill, described the scene as "hell on Earth."
"No one could have seen it coming," he said. "One minute everything was normal -- the next I heard a terrible noise and then everything went white." Bergman was released from the hospital with only minor injuries, but many were not so fortunate.
When contacted, plant operations officer Gerald Vincent stated that he believes the disaster to have been an accident. "This tragic loss of life is something we mourn," he added, "and Knight Textiles will do everything in its power to cooperate with investigators."
Knight Textiles, a division of Knight Corporation, has recieved many odd looks lately from both public and private concerns in its thirty year history. An oddity in that the company remains in the United States of America, many California politicians have made its eventual migration out of the country a minor plank in their platforms -- only to have the plant outlast their careers. The ramifications of this disaster -- SEE TEXTILE, PAGE A13
