Over 30 tons of a chemical used in fertilizer and high explosives went missing from a railcar traveling west from Wyoming to California in April, and investigators still don’t know how it happened.
According to news outlets, on May 10—a month after the incident—explosives manufacturer Dyno Nobel filed a report with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s National Response Center.
Union Pacific (UP) was the hauler of the multi-compartment railcar from a Dyno Nobel manufacturing plant in Cheyenne, Wyoming, to Saltdale, California—a route spanning over 1,000 miles.
A Dyno Nobel spokesperson told KQED that a sealed railcar carrying 60,000 pounds of ammonium nitrate left the Cheyenne facility on April 12, “and the seals were still intact when it arrived in Saltdale.”…