Chemical safety board vital to N.J. gets new life after being ignored by Trump Updated May 05, 2021; Facebook Share For decades, chemical explosions got the same attention as plane crashes, with an independent government agency rushing to the scene, gathering evidence and then coming up with a probable cause and recommendations to prevent a repeat. That agency has deep New Jersey ties. The Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board was born out of an explosion at a Lodi pharmaceutical manufacturing plant more than two decades ago, and owes its existence to a New Jersey lawmaker, the late...