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- From: lordSnooty@cup.portal.com (Andrew - Palfreyman)
- Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
- Subject: Sticky Fingers In The Information Age
- Message-ID: <73285@cup.portal.com>
- Date: Sat, 9 Jan 93 19:22:31 PST
- Organization: The Portal System (TM)
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- welcome to 1993, era of sophistication and computers etc.
- if you haven't yet checked out comp.risks, you may enjoy
- it. here is a recent, typical and bizarre extract.
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- Subject: Dutch chemical plant explodes due to typing error
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- In the first half of this year the chemical factory Cindu exploded causing
- several deaths and a chaos. It was confirmed yesterday that a simple typing
- error led to this tragic accident. Apparently the computerised chemical
- processing installation was fed with data in which a comma was placed at a
- wrong digit, causing the wrong amount of chemicals to be mixed in the
- installation. This led to an enormous explosion and the closure of the
- factory.
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- The Dutch news said that the responsible person has been found and he
- will be charged with negligible conduct causing death.
-