[CPEO-MEF] MUNITIONS: Mortar explodes at Granite City (IL) recycling plant

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Source of live mortar that exploded at Granite City recycling plant  
still unclear

By Joel Currier
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
August 28, 2014

GRANITE CITY • Mortar shells delivered to the Totall Metal Recycling  
plant, where two workers were killed Monday morning in an explosion,  
are supposed to be inert when they arrive, according to police and a  
spokeswoman representing the business.

Neither investigators nor the company has disclosed the source of the  
live mortar round that blew up about 6:25 a.m. Monday and killed  
Rodolfo Romo, 46, of Fairmont City, and Tyler Muenstermann, 24, of  
Edwardsville.

Granite City Police Chief Rich Miller said Thursday that his officers  
have finished investigating and will hand over findings to the  
Madison County Coroner’s Office for an upcoming inquest into the  
workers’ deaths.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/metro/source-of-live-mortar-that- 
exploded-at-granite-city-recycling/ 
article_94ab9b57-00fa-59c7-8d96-108a14652dd7.html

See also
http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/illinois/deadly-blast-rocks- 
granite-city-recycling-plant/article_554f2b9a- 
ec94-5f9e-9432-0cd8321499bf.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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