Flixborough is a village in Lincolnshire. This article is about the English administrative county. ...
The Flixborough disaster ocurred at a nearby chemical plant on 1 June1974. The Flixborough disaster was an explosion at a chemical plant close to Flixborough (near Scunthorpe), North Lincolnshire, on 1 June 1974. ... June 1 is the 152nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (153rd in leap years), with 213 days remaining. ... 1974 is a common year starting on Tuesday (click on link for calendar). ...
One of the most important lessons of Flixborough, therefore, not mentioned in the official report, is the need, whenever possible, to reduce inventories of hazardous materials.
Ten years after Flixborough the need to reduce inventories had still not been recognized; the industry was still confident that it could keep them under control.
Flixborough started a debate on the extent to which governments should control hazardous industry.
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