One dead, nine missing after chemical explosion at Washington paper mill

One person killed, nine missing, nine injured including eight employees and one firefighter with injuries ranging from critical to minor including burns and inhalation damage.

On a Tuesday morning in Longview, Washington, the ordinary rhythms of industrial labor were shattered when a tank of white liquor — a caustic chemical woven into the quiet machinery of paper production — ruptured at the Nippon Dynawave mill, killing at least one person and leaving nine others unaccounted for. What was first understood as a contained vessel of 80,000 gallons proved to hold nearly a million, a miscalculation that speaks to how industrial danger can exceed the boundaries of human assumption. As emergency crews work cautiously around a structure still too unstable to fully enter,

One dead, nine missing after chemical explosion at Washington paper mill

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