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A fact from West Pharmaceutical Services explosion appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 22 April 2007. The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the West Pharmaceutical Services explosion in 2003 occured just 170 miles from the site of another industrial disaster, America's second-worst?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2007/April.

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Edit - 7 December 2018 - 'Worst-Disaster'

I checked the source that had been listed, "Lessons", and I see that the source refers to the Hamlet chicken processing plant fire as "the second-worst American industrial accident of the 20th century".
I have no idea how the The Christian Science Monitor reached this conclusion, but it's simply wrong. The 1947 Texas City disaster (581 killed), the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire (146 killed), 1927 Hawks Nest Tunnel disaster (178 is the lowest estimate of dead), 1944 Port Chicago disaster (320 dead). So, I changed it to a more accurate, North Carolina's second worst industrial disaster.--The Navigators (talk)-May British Rail Rest in Peace. 08:15, 7 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]