Hercules Powder plant disaster
1940 explosion of an armaments factory in Roxbury, New Jersey, USThe Hercules Powder plant disaster was an explosion at an armaments factory owned by the Hercules Powder Company in the Kenvil section of Roxbury, New Jersey, on 12 September 1940. About 52 people were killed and 100 injured.
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