Breaking: 1 Dead, 3 Injured in Blast At Lake City Army Ammo Plant

By Bob Owens

We’re just getting word of a fatal explosion at the Lake City Army Ammunition Plant in Independence, Missouri.

One employee is dead and three others are hurt after an explosion Tuesday in a mixing building at Lake City Army Ammunition Plant in Independence.

Lake City Army Ammunition Plant provides quality small-caliber munitions and operates the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) test center.

Lakc City is responsible for the manufacture of small arms ammunition for the United States military, and makes more than one billion rounds of ammunition every year to exacting standards. It is the U.S. military’s single largest small arms ammunition plant, and has been run by Orbital ATK under a government contract since April of 2001.

Rudimentary details of the explosion in a (propellant) mixing building make the developing incident sound eerily familiar to the PB Clermont ammunition facility explosion in Belgium in March of 2014 that drove a global ammunition propellant shortage that affected the market for over a year.

The scale of the Lake City blast shown in news helicopter video initially suggests that the scale of the explosion is much smaller and probably less critical than the 2014 Belgian facility explosion, which damaged more than 100 nearby …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms