February 1971, workers sift through the wreckage caused by a series of explosions at the Thiokol munitions factory near the Georgia coast. The facility manufactured tripflares used in the Vietnam War.

Fifty-three years ago, the ground quaked in Woodbine, Georgia. The sound was unmistakable and the fallout unimaginable for the workers and families of the Thiokol Chemical plant where a blast killed ...

Fifteen years ago today, Savannahians learned that sugar dust could kill. A series of dust-related explosions at the Imperial Sugar refinery in Port Wentworth killed 14 workers, injured 40 others and ...

Just after 10:53 a.m. on Feb. 3, 1971, the ground trembled in the small city of Woodbine, Georgia. As far away as Jacksonville, residents felt the ground sway beneath them. In Brunswick, just 15 miles ...

Survivors of the Thiokol explosion recall the day that changed their lives forever. Survivors and witnesses of the 1971 explosion at the Thiokol plant in rural Southeast Georgia recall the day that ...

The Bucks County commissioners are expected to award a contract today to a Hatfield environmental cleanup firm to haul away tons of contaminated soil from the so-called Thiokol property in Lower Bucks ...

It’s nail-biting time for the folks working at Thiokol Corp.’s rocket motor plant in Elkton, as the Pathfinder spacecraft zooms in on Mars. Pathfinder is NASA’s latest effort to explore the Red Planet ...