1924 Nixon Nitration Works disaster
Industrial explosion in New Jersey, United States / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The 1924 Nixon Nitration Works disaster was an explosion and fire that claimed many lives and destroyed several square miles of New Jersey factories.[1] It began on March 1, 1924, about 11:15 a.m., when an explosion destroyed a building in Nixon, New Jersey (an area within present-day Edison, New Jersey) used for processing ammonium nitrate.[2] The explosion touched off fires in surrounding buildings in the Nixon Nitration Works that contained other highly flammable materials.[3] The disaster killed twenty people, destroyed forty buildings,[4] and demolished the "tiny industrial town of Nixon, New Jersey."[5]