Timekeeping Office, BAAP, 2000 Employees passing through the inspection house on the way into and out of work were checked for contraband items such as matches and cigarettes.
Change Houses, BAAP, 2000 Workers changed into work clothes before being bussed to the particular area of the plant where they worked. For security reasons, very few people knew the entire plant and its processes.
Constant Temperature Rest House, BAAP, 2000 Like many of the buildings on site, this one is surrounded by a wall of embanked railroad ties. In the case of explosion, the force would go up rather than out to adjacent production buildings.
Blending House, BAAP, 2001
Steam P.R. Station, BAAP, 2000 Isn’t all P.R. mostly steam?
Verlyn Meuller, BAAP, 2001 Fire was a constant threat, even after production was shut down. The production buildings were saturated with enough propellant that lightning, or even a hand saw, could easily ignite a fire. Verlyn Mueller was one of
Norma Clavadatscher, Roll Cutting House, 2000 Norma worked in a roll-cutting house such as this one. She described how the workers would get migraine headaches from the nitroglycerin in the rocket propellant they were cutting and had to lay outsi
Nitro-cotton Blending House, BAAP, 2000 The escape ramp was intended not for sliding but for running - however, it was essentially a false sense of security in the event of an explosion.
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