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Title: Santa Fe Springs factory explosion
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Creator: Grayson, Steve
Date Created and/or Issued: 1989
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Title supplied by cataloger.
A section of the Reinhold Industries building, a Santa Fe Springs industrial plant located at 12827 E. Imperial Highway, lay in ruin after an explosion ripped through the plant. Two persons were killed and five were injured while workers were installing a high-pressure molding machine. Carbon dioxide gas exploded, tearing off part of the roof.
Photograph caption dated October 11, 1989 reads, "Reduced to rubble: Fire and police officials inspect industrial plant in Santa Fe Springs after powerful blast blew roof off building."
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;22 x 31 cm. on sheet 29 x 36 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00096028
Herald Examiner Collection
HE_b008_f1_i12
CARL0005109978
http://cdm16703.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/30336
Subject: Industrial facilities--California--Santa Fe Springs
Debris--California--Santa Fe Springs
Carbon dioxide--Accidents--California--Santa Fe Springs
Explosions--California--Santa Fe Springs
Accidents--California--Santa Fe Springs
Fire fighters--California--Santa Fe Springs
Fire engines--California--Santa Fe Springs
Santa Fe Springs (Calif.)
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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