Donaldsonville News

Investigators are still looking into what led to a fatal blast Friday at a chemical plant in Donaldsonville, which left one dead and seven others injured.

Federal investigators are expected in south Louisiana over the weekend at the site of an explosion that killed one worker at chemical plant in Donaldsonville - the second such blast in the area in as many days.

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Three people remained in critical condition late Friday after a container rupture at a Louisiana nitrogen plant killed one person and injured several others, police said.CF Industries, one of the world's largest nitrogen fertilizer suppliers, confirmed that the accident occurred in a section of their Donaldsonville, La.

Officials with Louisiana State Police said seven others were hurt when workers were pressurizing a vessel with nitrogen and over-pressurized it, which led to the blast at the CF Industries Donaldsonville Nitrogen Complex.

Workers board a bus in Gonzalez, La., on Thursday to return to a chemical plant to retrieve their cars after an explosion occurred there.

An explosion at a plant in Donaldsonville, Louisiana yesterday left one person dead and seven more injured, according to local authorities.

A second blast in two days has killed a worker at a south Louisiana chemical plant, just miles from the site where two workers were killed a day earlier.

Emergency officials have reported 30 minutes ago that a second chemical plant has exploded in Ascension Parish this evening.

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CF Industries Holdings Inc. , the largest U.S. producer of nitrogen fertilizer, said one person died and seven were injured after an accident at a plant in Donaldsonville, Louisiana .

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One person was killed and several others were injured Friday in an explosion at a south Louisiana chemical plant, only miles from where another blast the previous day led to the deaths of two plant workers, authorities said.

One person died and eight others were injured in an incident Friday at a chemical plant in Donaldsonville, La., the plant manager said.

Ascension Sheriff Jeff Wiley confirmed that there was an explosion and fire involving an 18-wheeler.

City councilmen voted Tuesday to let Ascension Catholic Diocesan Regional School proceed with construction of a new multi-purpose building, after an initial go-ahead by a council commission was voided.

Ascension Parish sheriff's deputies are looking for a sixth man involved in the fatal slaying last week of a Donaldsonville man who himself was facing a second-degree charge in a 2011 homicide, the Sheriff's Office reported Tuesday.

The Ascension Parish School Board will try again to sell the former Lowery Middle School property on Louisiana Highway 1 in Donaldsonville.

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The Ascension Parish School Board says bids came in too high for a construction project at Gonzales Primary School and new bids will be solicited.