Documents show prior citations before blast at Tenn. facility

[Liberal In Texas]

4. This is absolutely a lack of regulation.

The plant blew up. Unless they were bombed the only reason a place like this blows up is because procedures, storage, unsafe equipment or a combination of those factors caused it. We may know if they find evidence in the debris. The place should obviously have had some kind of regulation to assure that lazy management wasn't cutting corners and running the place dangerously.

There were citations for health violations and chemical exposure of the employees. The fines on these companies are always too light. The only way to keep them from going back to business as usual is to make the fines painful.