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Forty workers die in the Lapua Cartridge Factory explosion

Forty workers die in the Lapua Cartridge Factory explosion

1976 explosion at a munitions factory in Finland
🗓️ 13 April 1976

The Lapua Cartridge Factory explosion was an industrial disaster in an ammunition factory in Lapua, Finland on 13 April 1976. 40 workers were killed and 60 people injured. This was Finland's worst industrial disaster.