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Forty workers die in the Lapua Cartridge Factory explosion, the deadliest industrial accident in modern Finnish history.

Lapua Cartridge Factory explosion

1976 explosion at a munitions factory in Lapua, Finland

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.
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Finland

Country in Northern Europe

Finland, officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It borders Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east, with the Gulf of Bothnia to the west and the Gulf of Finland to the south, opposite Estonia. Finland has a…
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