Boston Molasses Disaster | The Legend and the Legacy | 2
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The Case of Us Industrial Alcohol
The most dangerous industries are usually Located in the poorest neighborhoods of a city. So it would have been better constructed in a more high-income neighborhood, but it would have never been built there. The judge rules against us industrial alcohol and they're forced to pay out I believe the figure was $628,000 in damages It also resulted in a lot of regulatory changes so up until that point, they're Interestingly, a lot of boston building code applied to almost every form of industrial building except a storage tank. No plans had to be on file stamped and validated by an engineer They could basically just build this tank with No safeguards And so that also led boston to reevaluate some of its
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