Texas City, 1947: The Cargo That Erased a Waterfront

On the morning of the sixteenth of April, 1947, a small fire was burning in the cargo hold of an ordinary freighter tied up at a Texas dock. The cargo was fertilizer. By the time the day was over, that fertilizer had killed close to six hundred people and erased a waterfront. This is what happened. CHAPTERS 00:00 Cold open 01:30 Scene 1: The chemical that nobody feared 08:30 Scene 2: The ship and the loading 16:00 Scene 3: The decision to seal the hold 23:30 Scene 4: The detonation 31:00 Scene 5: The second ship 38:00 Scene 6: The town and the response 45:30 Scene 7: The inquiry and the causes 53:00 Scene 8: What Texas City changed 60:00 Scene 9: The cargo that crosses oceans still 65:30 Scene 10: What endures This is Episode 6 of Post-Mortem Files. New episodes drop weekly. Subscribe so you don't miss the rest of the series. Which warning sign do you think they should have caught first? Tell us below. #Disasters #AccidentInvestigation #AviationDisasters #IndustrialAccidents #accidentinvestigation