A Cooper University Hospital spokesperson confirmed to CBS News that they received three patients, including two trauma patients. Another patient was sent to a hospital in Philadelphia.
The explosion took place at Savita Naturals, located at 617 Heron Drive, CBS reported.
The family-owned specialty oil extraction company focused on cannabis is listed as “temporarily closed” on Google.
Savita Naturals said on its website that it uses propane solvent extraction methods to extract oil, which is highly flammable and combustible.
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Sweet fuck that’s the nightmare!
Hope everyone’s ok, propane is intense!
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This video shows the damage to the building. It’s toast.
I hope all involved make full recoveries. If this happened in an occupied booth, the chances of everyone being OK seem pretty slim.
Nypost has the company listed as a “coco butter” processing company that also processes “some CBD”.
One might take this quote from their website to imply that they were processing or aiming to process more than 1000lb a day.
Most artisanal extractors and some moderate scale operators (those who process less than 1,000 pounds of biomass per day) utilize butane or propane extraction technology
WTF are those huge tanks about?!?
Curious how much we eventually learn.
Be safe out there folks!
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Wonder whose extractor this was? Shit like this is horrible. So unnecessary
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Controlled burn for several days?
Holy hell
Hoping for full recovery for all parties
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I feel like someone here was saying they had a big extractor in NJ,
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Plenty of big extractors in NJ and all over the country. The question is how big is the fool operating it. Hoping those that got injured can heal quickly.
Officials described the incident as catastrophic and said the injured employees were lucky to be alive.
Fire officials said the fire was fully extinguished after a controlled burn was used to address leaking propane on the property.
Five 500-gallon liquid propane tanks damaged in the explosion remain on site. Officials said that propane may also be burned off rather than moved before investigators are allowed to enter the property to continue their work.
New details released after massive explosion at Logan Twp., New Jersey Savita Naturals factory | 6abc.com
2500+gal of propane on site…
Holy Fucking MAQ Batman!!
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Yep the luxury of solvent availability has a down side 
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Still don’t t know where those tanks where standing in n this facility but if the propane is still in the tank those are or great tanks or yust lucky
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Looks like they were a tad over their 4X baseline for MAQ outside storage lol. May have been an H Occupancy, hard to tell by looking. Either way bad situation.
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It looks like this was a family owned business. The father, Richard, has a Chem Engineering degree and comes from the chocolate world (worked at Hershey for 10 years).
After Hershey he started a business using hexane to extract cocoa butter from industry byproducts.
After that he built his own propane extractor because the products can be considered “food grade” unlike with hexane.
“Trained as a chemical engineer, Richard used his expertise to create a batch process for purifying and refining cocoa butter. He designed and built a propane solvent extraction plant to recover higher quality cocoa butter and diversify into the food product area of producing defatted foods, in particular, defatted cocoa powders.”
Reading through their website, it sounds like they were mainly focused on cocoa butter and seed oils. Not sure how much of their business was CBD/cannabis.
Couple pics from their website:
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What a shame. It looks like their plant is far more proper than a lot that I’ve seen in this industry.
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