Explosion at SA Austin Facility

Three people were injured Wednesday when an explosion occurred in an explosives manufacturing facility in Rafaela Argentina.
According to press accounts the explosion occurred in an Austin Powder explosives plant at 2:30 in the morning when a shift change was taking place.
One of the three injured workers had to be hospitalized.
The plant manufactures explosives for use in the mining and other industries. Austin Powder owns US Nitrogen LLC, the Greeneville, Tenn. company that produces ammonium nitrate which is shipped to other Austin facilities for the production of explosives.
According to press accounts the Rafaela explosion was triggered by excess pressure in a distillation tower and it could be heard throughout the city.
Austin has operated in Argentina since 1993 when it bought out a local explosives manufacturer.