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title: "2000 Pingxiang steel plant explosion"
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The Pingxiang steel plant explosion occurred on August 21, 2000, when an oxygen generator in a steel plant located in Pingxiang, Jiangxi, China, exploded. At least 19 steel workers were killed as a result of the incident.


== See also ==

Qinghe Special Steel Corporation disaster
List of industrial disasters


== References ==