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A seam in the deposit led to an unusually loud blast from Walker Industries’ Niagara Falls quarry. According to a report in The Niagara Falls Review, John Fisher, president of the company, said it completed an investigation of its Jan. 25 blast and determined it was due to blasting rock with a crack in it. “What we concluded was there was an anomaly in the rock that allowed energy to escape through a crack in the rock,” Fisher told the newspaper. “It’s unusual for us to have a situation like that.”