BP Texas City Explosion

A combination of poor communication between management, con-tractors, and employees and faulty equipment led to the 2005 BP Texas City Refinery explosion which killed 15 people and cost BP billions of dollars. Learn what went wrong and how it could have been prevented at AIChE’s Chemical Engineering for Non-Engineers course, www.aiche.org/ela110

[@traceycrouch5532]

There was another explosion in 1978. I was there. People in the street getting ready to evacuate and it rocked my grandparents house. I slept through it, just to wake up with the whole neighborhood in the street in front of the house. This one here is a lot more deadly though. Same refinery though.

[@castielsgranny4308]

There was a smallish explosion at TCR in 78. I was working at a Shell convenience store and late night people started coming through, freaked out! I don’t know if anyone was killed. A year earlier Monsanto had an accident, not an explosion. A steam tank fell apart and killed 5 men. I was friends with kids of 2 of them. My daddy worked at Monsanto for 30 years.

[@ibanezbtb91]

First this, then Deepwater Horizon 4 years later. BP bathroom policy: Dump and forget to wipe and/or don't wipe under any circumstance.

[@medicchester]

Yeah BP sucks. Chevron rocks.

[@nenblom]

Amen. They cared only about profits. They did not care about safety. I mean look at what happened to the Deepwater Horizon. Have you ever seen the movie with Mark Wahlberg, Kurt Russell and John Malkovich? It’s very tragic but it’s very well-made.

[@richardjones2006]

@@nenblom The occurrence was tragic and utterly preventable. The movie was tragic in it's appalling misrepresentation of what happened, leading the public at large to think they know what happened. There is / was a great article in the NYT after the event that for anyone not in the drilling business made it all too obvious why people died and the oil flooded out into the ocean.

[@Tremor244]

not only 1, but 2 high-level sensors failed, also why the heck does the level sensor only measure up to a few feet when the tower can hold like 10 times as much??

[@renj6531]

every thing was the perfect storm to go wrong " people being in the trailer at the exact moment and in the room closest to the leak, the idling truck , I hate to say It but this sounds like some final destination stuff.

[@JustSomeGuyLV]

Didn't you watch the entire report? It wasn't Final Destination type death plan at work, it was utter neglect from superiors. Prior to fatal explosion, there were dozen of life threatening ''near misses'' not properly investigated 🤦‍♂️ It's like eating old chicken, getting diarrhea, not putting 2 and 2 together, and eating same old spoiled chicken again 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

[@renj6531]

@@JustSomeGuyLV I know that I but none the less it was a perfect storm due to neglect

[@JustSomeGuyLV]

@@renj6531 Perfect storm due to neglect? Dude... with heavy machinery and explosive substances involved, it would be "perfect storm of of luck" if tragedy like this didn't occur...

[@daveh8316]

all that but i cant have a dime sized rust spot on the fender of my truck and still pass pa inspection just proves money talks

[@cruisepaige]

Poor Texas City. So many disasters.

[@kwv4865]

One course can prevent disasters like this from happening again? 🤔🤔🤔

[@renj6531]

I see a patern of disasters because plants got careless and complacent, remember Bhopal?

[@ALEGGOMES]

Safety Engineering can help a lot.

[@EDD519]

@@ALEGGOMES dream on !

[@renj6531]

9:22 all Ill say to that is they are about to receive a wake up call

[@chris101ward]

"BP" *Bean-counting* *Pencil-pushers*

[@castielsgranny4308]

“Butt Pickers”

[@spd_bird]

17:30 20:30 Oof

[@theccpisaparasite8813]

Could have been worse ... lots worse ... Texas City ... 1947 ...

[@somethingtojenga]

Aliens: "Our energy comes from absorbing the power of our star directly into the skin of our materials--it's completely safe and amazingly efficient." Humanity: "Yeah we use this thing that we tear up the Earth's crust to get to, and then once it's out, it's this ridiculously flammable and out-gassing liquid that we put into machines our children ride in. Oh and it's about 35% efficient." Aliens: 😱

[@galagatron5319]

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[@engineerinhickorystripehat]

How did MEN get jobs as talking heads for CSB , is this video THAT old ?