Legal Opinion
Eleanore Higginbotham Aretz v. United States of America, Thomas F. Aretz v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided October 15, 1979No. 78-3615PublishedCited by 55 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TUTTLE, Circuit Judge:
On February 3, 1971, fire broke out in Building M-132 of the Thiokol Chemical Corporation’s Woodbine, Georgia, plant, where Thiokol was manufacturing flares used for nighttime illumination in the Vietnam War. The fire spread quickly and reached a room where loose, intensely flammable, material used in the 'flares was stored. Building M-132 exploded. Fifty employees were injured, twenty-nine were killed.
Thiokol was manufacturing the flares under a contract with the United States Army according to Army specifications and certain Army manufacturing standards. These included…
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