This incident was not unique. Fatalities from welding and hot work are often are associated with confined spaces and the areas adjacent to these confined spaces . The CSB has identified over 60 fatalities since 1990 due to explosions and fires from hot work activities on tanks, which are, of course, confined spaces.
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The momentum of a particle is the vector obtained by multiplying the velocity by the mass m. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 17, Slice 8 Various. Light-waves have a velocity of about 186,000 miles per second.