Death toll rises to eight in Washington chemical tank collapse; three still missing

Eight confirmed dead with three more presumed dead; eight others injured including a firefighter; victims included a grandfather, young husband, and fathers with families.

On a Tuesday morning in Longview, Washington, a catastrophic rupture at a paper mill along the Columbia River reminded the world that industrial labor carries risks that policy and protocol have never fully tamed. A tank holding more than half a million gallons of caustic chemicals gave way during a shift change, killing eight workers and leaving three more presumed dead — a convergence of timing and structural failure that transformed an ordinary morning into one of the deadliest workplace disasters the United States has seen in recent memory. The victims were grandfathers, young husbands, fa

Death toll rises to eight in Washington chemical tank collapse; three still missing

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