Completed Investigations

Location: Delaware City, DE
Final Report Released On: 11/02/2006
Company: Valero

Two contract employees were overcome and fatally injured by nitrogen as they performed maintenance work near a 24-inch opening on the top of a reactor. One of the workers died attempting rescu...
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Location: Texas City, TX
Final Report Released On: 10/15/2006
Company: BP Texas City
On July 28, 2005, 4 months after a devastating incident in the Isomerization (Isom) Unit that killed 15 workers and injured 180, the BP Texas City refinery experienced a major fire in the Resid H...
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Location: Point Comfort, TX
Final Report Released On: 07/20/2006
Company: Formosa Plastics
A forklift towing a trailer collided with a line containing highly flammable liquid propylene, causing a release and a vapor cloud explosion. Sixteen workers were injured, the process unit was he...
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Location: St. Louis, MO
Final Report Released On: 06/15/2006
Company: Praxair
On June 24, 2005, fire swept through thousands of flammable gas cylinders at the Praxair gas repackaging plant in St. Louis, Missouri. Dozens of exploding cylinders were launched into the surroun...
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Location: Houston, TX
Final Report Released On: 06/06/2006
Company: Marcus Oil
On the evening of December 3, a storage tank failed catastrophically at the Marcus Oil and Chemical polyethylene wax facility in Houston. The blast, which was felt up to 20 miles from the plant s...
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Location: Dalton, GA
Final Report Released On: 04/11/2006
Company: MFG Chemical
On the evening of April 12, 2004, a chemical reactor overheated at the MFG Chemical manufacturing plant, releasing toxic allyl alcohol vapor. The resulting cloud sent 154 people to a local hospit...
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Location: Ontario, CA
Final Report Released On: 03/30/2006
Company: Sterigenics
At approximately 3:00 p.m. on August 19, 2004, an explosion occurred inside an ethylene oxide sterilization chamber and an associated thermal oxidizer at the Sterigenics facility in Ontario, Cali...
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