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April 3, 2014

Mersen USA: Misplaced materials caused fatal blast

c.deppen@bradfordera.com

Mersen USA officials have ruled human error as the cause of a Jan. 30 industrial oven explosion that left one worker dead and another seriously injured at the company’s St.

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