Another ever-present hazard of the munitionettes ' work was the risk of explosion . On several occasions the explosives the women were working with ignited , injuring or killing the workers . Explosions at British munitions factories during World War I included the 1917 Silvertown explosion , in which 73 people were killed and over 400 injured , and a 1918 explosion at the National Shell Filling Factory , Chilwell , which killed over 130 workers
Silvertown explosion
Silvertown explosion
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