"Black Dot" powder new BP sub??

[10ga]

Have heard the re make of Black Mag, a BP sub, in the form of "Black Dot" and it will be in the "Dot" line of Alliant powders. Other than what Wakeman has posted on his site has anyone heard anything about this powder? 10 ga

[sabotloader]

10ga

I have been looking even sent them an email - nothing

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same here, sent an email and got no response.

[falcon]

Sadly, the Black Mag plant blew up on 14 May. Two guys were killed and another injured. They were making pellets when the place blew up.

Click on the picture to view the video:

www1.whdh.com/news/articles/local/BO142124/

The plant manager speaks:

www.colebrookchronicle.com/

[rossman40]

The "plant manager" in the interview was more like a facility manager for the guy that owned the building.

I was told that the Black Mag powder was being made for Magkor by General Dynamics, possibly at their Moses Lake, WA facility. As Hodgdon found out at their Herrington, KS facility, dealing with the EPA is a bear so I doubt the powder was being made at Colebrook. Re-packaging it I could see and unless the building was set-up for a "explosive atmosphere" environment they were flirting with disaster. It will be interesting to see the fall out after OSHA, EPA and the ambulance chasing lawyers get involved.

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"ambulance chasing lawyers get involved. "

Email RW and ask if his boy is on it!!

[rossman40]

Another update,


Colebrook explosion still under scrutiny
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By KATHRYN MARCHOCKI
N.H. Union Leader
Published: Monday, May 17, 2010
COLEBROOK – The investigation into the massive explosions that killed two workers at a Colebrook ammunition and gun plant Friday is focusing on how gunpowder was manufactured there, a state official said Sunday.

“The process (of making the gunpowder) is definitely what we are really interested in,” Fire Marshal J. William Degnan said Sunday.

Authorities know the explosions at MDM Muzzleloader occurred in an area of the building containing the machines that process the gunpowder, Degnan said. He previously told The Associated Press the investigation has led investigators to one machine.

But he said they still don’t know what caused the explosions. He said it could take several weeks and possibly months to analyze information gathered so far.

The Fire Marshal’s Office already identified one of the workers killed as Jesse Kennett, 49, of Stratford. The name of the second worker who was killed has been withheld pending positive identification.

A third worker survived the blasts and has provided valuable information to investigators, said Degnan, whose office is receiving assistance from the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and Colebrook and state police.

Degnan acknowledged that one of the machines used to make gunpowder had reportedly broken down during the week.

“There was a problem earlier in the week with one of the machines. I was told that, originally, there should not have been anybody in the area, but they were doing backup. Again ... the investigation is ongoing and those other details will be sorted out in the next weeks,” Degnan said.

He would not say whether the machine that broke earlier in the week was involved in the explosions.

While the investigators are conducting a criminal investigation into the deaths and explosions, Degnan said, it’s too soon to say whether a crime occurred.

Investigators finished interviewing witnesses and processing the scene and released the site to its owner, Craig Sanborn of Maidstone, Vt., on Saturday night.

Early last year, Sanborn opened the plant in the Colebrook Industrial Park. Sunday, he did not return a telephone call placed to his home.

The state Medical Examiner’s Office has done autopsies on the bodies of the two dead workers. Results have not been made public.


If they were actually making the powder in that building, not just packaging or processing it into pellets, I think someone will be going to jail.


NH official: Lengthy plant investigation expected
By Associated Press
Tuesday, May 18, 2010


CONCORD, N.H. — New Hampshire’s state fire marshal says it could take weeks, if not months, before an investigation is concluded into a deadly explosion at a Colebrook gun and ammunition plant.

Two men died and a third was injured Friday at MDM Muzzleloader.

Fire Marshal Bill Degnan says owner Craig Sanborn flew back to New Hampshire from a National Rifle Association conference Friday and is cooperating with investigators. Sanborn hasn’t returned messages seeking comment.

Degnan and Ted Fitzgerald of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration said MDM was new. OSHA has no inspection records of a burn injury suffered by a MDM worker this year. Fitzgerald says a company doesn’t have to report an accident unless it results in a death or injures at least three people.


Here in Ohio the States OSHA and Workmans Comp is tied together. You file a workmans comp claim and a OSHA style investigation may follow.

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