Human behavioural reactions to an accidental explosion.
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TextLanguage: ENG Publication details: JUL 1976Description: 46p., refs appear throughout, 22 tablesReport number: Academic; EPC-FS-76-3Subject: On April 21, 1975 there was an accidental detonation, without warning, of three thousand pounds of nitroglycerine-based explosives at a dynamite manufacturing plant in a large southern Alberta city. Six men died and three were very seriously injured. There were double the numbers present, as shifts were changing over. The plant was about to cease production of nitroglycerine based dynamite and convert to what was believed to be a safer one. However, in six months another dynamite manufacturing plant operated by the same company was also rocked by a devastating explosion. Eight more persons perished in Quebec, and the total number of deaths rose to fourteen. The purpose of this report is to analyze sociologically the behavioural reactions of the on-site survivors of those events. While the focus of this report is upon panic (and the absence of panic), a later report will provide feedback, at a more concrete and less theoretical level, to the company and union at the plants involved in the explosions
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On April 21, 1975 there was an accidental detonation, without warning, of three thousand pounds of nitroglycerine-based explosives at a dynamite manufacturing plant in a large southern Alberta city. Six men died and three were very seriously injured. There were double the numbers present, as shifts were changing over. The plant was about to cease production of nitroglycerine based dynamite and convert to what was believed to be a safer one. However, in six months another dynamite manufacturing plant operated by the same company was also rocked by a devastating explosion. Eight more persons perished in Quebec, and the total number of deaths rose to fourteen. The purpose of this report is to analyze sociologically the behavioural reactions of the on-site survivors of those events. While the focus of this report is upon panic (and the absence of panic), a later report will provide feedback, at a more concrete and less theoretical level, to the company and union at the plants involved in the explosions
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