[CPEO-MEF] MUNITIONS: "Worker dies in explosion at Tucson [AZ] scrap yard"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Worker dies in explosion at Tucson scrap yard

By Carmen Duarte
Arizona Daily Star
September 23, 2015 

An employee at a south-side scrap yard was killed Wednesday in an explosion that occurred when he cut into a metal object that turned out to be military ordnance, Tucson police said.

Police said it wasn’t known what the ordnance was doing at the scrap yard or how it got there.

Sgt. Kimberly Bay, a Tucson Police Department spokeswoman, said the incident was reported at about 12:45 p.m. when a South Tucson police officer was driving in the 600 bock of East 36th Street, near South Euclid Avenue, and someone flagged him down and told him about the explosion.

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For the entire article, see
http://tucson.com/news/blogs/police-beat/worker-dies-in-explosion-at-tucson-scrap-yard/article_2ad2ecfc-c821-51ea-b65e-f6fa09d2c3a4.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650-961-8918 or 650-969-1545
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LSiegel@cpeo.org
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