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CROSBY, Texas -- Firefighters battled a chemical plant fire at KMCO at 16503 Ramsey Road, just off the Crosby Freeway in east Harris County for more than five hours on Tuesday. One person has died ...
Operations remained suspended Wednesday at the KMCO plant in Crosby after Tuesday’s plant fire and explosion that cost 27-year-old James Earl “Bubba” Mangum his life and left two other men ...
The lawsuit says KMCO officials were aware of a leak in a "check valve" on a high-pressure line containing isobutylene, a flammable gas that has been blamed for starting the fire.
KMCO's parent company paid a $3.5 million fine in conjunction with its guilty pleas. EPA records show the company has been out of compliance with federal air or water standards 36 of the last 48 ...
An explosion at the KMCO chemical plant in Crosby Tuesday morning, killing one person and injuring at least two others. Here's what we know about the plant. It’s owned by ORG Chemical Holdings ...
The KMCO chemical plant as seen from the railroad on May 3, 2019 in Crosby. There was an explosion at the facility on April 2, killing James Mangum of Daisetta, TX, who was working on-site, and ...
While an investigation is still continuing, a spokesman on behalf of KMCO released a statement Wednesday saying that the April 2 gas leak and fire at its East Harris County plant that caused the ...
The KMCO facility has more than 180 employees and sits on about 200 acres in Crosby, northeast of Houston, with eight distillation columns, 23 reactor systems, 600 tanks and capacity for 250 rail ...
CROSBY, Texas (KTRK) -- Firefighters battled a chemical plant fire at KMCO at 16503 Ramsey Road, just off the Crosby Freeway in east Harris County for more than five hours on Tuesday. One person ...