Texas has not surveyed injuries from plant blast

[TexasTowelie]

Source: AP

DALLAS (AP) -- More than three months after a Texas fertilizer plant exploded killing 15 people and hurting hundreds, the state still has not started surveying blast injuries.

Federal and state officials suggest such a study could increase the understanding about how many others may be in similar danger.

As of now, the Dallas Morning News reports (http://dallasne.ws/1c1hbbU), the Texas Department of State Health Services cannot even definitively say how many people were hurt when the West Fertilizer Co. exploded in April. An unofficial count estimates more than 300 were injured.

In 1995, when a bomb went off in an Oklahoma City federal building killing 168 people, state officials immediately tracked casualties.

Read more: http://www.khou.com/news/texas-news/Texas-has-not-surveyed-injuries-from-plant-blast-217310351.html

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The state didn't have proper regulations in the first place, why should they care now?

[hlthe2b]

1. they don't want it documented... just like Louisiana never completed a complete/acurate Katrina

accounting.

[ornotna]

2. Could that info aid in any future law suites?

Wouldn't want to do that now, would we.

[davidpdx]

3. Yeah and you would think the lawsuits would be numerous

An apartment building and retirement home were destroyed nearby.

I like your avatar so much I wanted to see what six in a row looked like:

[ornotna]

5. You mock me

I've had this avatar for years and never tried that, nice.

[davidpdx]

6. Yes, and here is overkill

[arely staircase]

4. that is correct.

State business, no matter how obvious, will not be conducted if it could cost rick Perry's criminal contributors and buddies some dough.

[Ford_Prefect]

7. The Texas version of "no harm, no foul". That is we didn't see it so in effect it never happened.

It is also a case of where it happened. Had the same explosion occurred in Dallas, or Austin, or even Plano the reaction and results would have been quite thoroughly different. West, Texas is so far off the beaten path, or else the fertilizer company has well paid help in Austin, that no one officially wants to know the answers posed buy the obvious questions.

The Oklahoma City case was also Federal and metropolitan. Both conditions are immediately fraught with regulation and oversight.

[Dustlawyer]

8. This is the Republican utopia! Where a small group of über wealthy snobs brainwash a

bunch of poor people into thinking their problems are caused by Democrats, then they loot everything! Perry has always received marching orders from the rich and powerful. How else could someone that stupid get to be a millionaire while in public office?

[marble falls]

9. Welcome to Texas and cowboy up or wander off and die quietly.

[Thinkingabout]

10. While running a small A/C business we carried $2M liability, this clown only had $1M and the

Loss of lives not to count the damage to structures is unthinkable. But Ole Ricky Boy was running around all over inviting businesses to come to Texas, we don't like regulations here and if there are some regulations we just won't send any inspectors.

[daleo]

11. See no evil