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The BP Texas City Oil Refinery disaster in 2005 shocked the world. With many safe-guards in place and lost-time injury rates so low, how could so many people be killed in a wholly preventable disaster?
With John Chidgey.

Links of potential interest:

  • The U.S. Chemical Safety Board
  • Texas City Refinery Explosion
  • Isomerization
  • Human Factors Influencing The Texas City Incident (PDF) (Archive.org)
  • Lessons from Disaster: How Organizations Have No Memory and Accidents Recur
  • Diesel Engine Runaway
  • BP Completes Sale of Texas City Refinery (Archive.org)
  • The Refinery Today (Archive.org)
  • Texas City, Texas: Google Maps Location
  • BPs Statement of Facts (PDF) (Archive.org)

    • Notes:

    • Original version released: 16th October, 2015
    • Re-written and Re-recorded: 20th August, 2023

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