February 3 - Wartime Industrial Murder

from Labor History in 2:00 · host The Rick Smith Show

On this day in Labor History the year was 1971. That was a day of tragedy for the workers at the Thiokol Chemical Corporation plant in southeastern Georgia. An explosion killed twenty-seven workers, and injured dozens more.

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