Let’s see what lame political drama this brews… At the cost of lives.
Sabotage maybe?
I mean it sucks that workers might have died, but you’re working at an explosives manufacturing plant.
Not only does that kind of make you a piece of shit, but it seems like this is something that you’d be aware was always a possibility.
The most likely reason is safety measures previously enforced by government agencies not being followed because of a lack of oversight due to cuts to funding of the oversight. That tends to be the reason for explosions and other disasters at graineries, chemical plants, and other manufacturing facilities.
Working with dangerous materials is dangerous, sure, but being dismissive of deaths due to working with dangerous materials is pretty shitty. People work with dangerous stuff all the time without incident when they follow proper safety protocols.
In my experience places with lax safety protocols just keep getting worse, the safety minded people quit and only those who crack jokes about OSHA and think a safety meeting is smoking a bowl in the parking lot stick around. Can’t imagine too many people who prioritize workplace safety would want to work at a dynamite plant, I sure wouldn’t.
Probably never know the cause, how much evidence could possibly be left after and explosion like that?