The BP Texas City Oil Refinery disaster in 2005 shocked the world. With 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
• Lessons from Disaster: How Organizations Have No Memory and Accidents Recur
• Diesel Engine Runaway
• BP Completes Sale of Texas City Refinery
• The Refinery Today
• Texas City, Texas: Google Maps Location
• BPs Statement of Facts

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