INQUIRY ON ACCIDENT
Door Crushes Five Men (N.Z Press Assn Copyright) i DENVER, August 9. Military construction experts conducted a minutely detailed inspection yesterday to find out why a 58-ton concrete lid slammed shut on a Titan missile launching silo, crushing five men to death and injuring eight others. The investigation began before recovery crews had taken the last of the dead from between the massive door and the platform where they were working when they were killed.
The panel, one of two doors which form a cover more than three feet thick to protect the missile chamber from nuclear attack, is operated hydraulically. It measures about 12 by 20 feet. Witnesses said some of those who were injured leaped into safety nets placed at intervals in the silo. The scene of the tragedy was the first of a Titan threesite complex which is soon to be turned over to military control. Each site on the Colorado Plains will have a capacity of six missiles.
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Press, Volume C, Issue 29589, 11 August 1961, Page 7
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