NOTE the focus on PRESSURE TESTING after a repair/alteration! Today, the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB) released a new safety video on its investigation into the massive April 8, 2021, explosion and fire that fatally injured one worker at the Yenkin-Majestic Paint Corporation facility in Columbus, Ohio. The CSB’s new safety video,…...
This information is preliminary and subject to change. On November 12, 2025, about 9:16 p.m. local time, a cargo tank transporting Anhydrous Ammonia experienced a leak while parked in Weatherford, Oklahoma. The driver had stopped at a Holiday Inn Express and Suites for the evening when he noticed the manway cover underneath the cargo tank…...
Section 5189.1. PROCESS SAFETY MANAGEMENT FOR PETROLEUM REFINERIES Amend Subsection (c) Definitions…. Membership Required You must be a member to access this content.View Membership LevelsAlready a member? Log in here...
Whilst moored at the quayside a fishing vessels engineer found water in a cargo hold. The engineer attempted to use the bilge pump to remove the water but found a problem with the suction. It was thought that either the suction pipe in the hold well had a hole or the pipe end strainer might…...
A contractor was injured and evacuated after a gas release incident on an offshore facility in the Gulf of America. The incident occurred while a contract employee was performing maintenance on an E-body control valve on a six-inch gas line. BSEE’s investigation found that residual pressure estimated at 128 psi inside the six-inch gas line…...
At 1:40 p.m. on May 7, 2024, Employee #1, 42, a Production Engineer, was performing daily assigned tasks when the Maintenance Coordinator requested that the employee replace a gasket on a wash tank camlock. While disconnecting a high-pressure hose from the bulk wash tank, the hose ejected water at 185F. The hot water burned 98%…...
Interesting case as the focus of the release was… “maintenance procedures failed to include clear instructions for detecting chlorine leaks after maintenance activities“ Respondent is the owner and operator of a facility. On August 30, 2024, there was an incident at the Facility that resulted in an accidental release of 180 pounds of chlorine (the…...
The Respondent owns a milk production facility. According to U.S. Census data, more than one thousand people live near the Facility. The Facility has been in use as a dairy since 1886, and at the time of EPA’s inspections, included a milk production site, office space, chemical storage, warehousing, and production areas. The last major…...
At 10 p.m. on 3/19/18, an employee, 34, and coworker were performing preventative maintenance on a chlorine gas system used in a water filtration process. The employee and coworker were removing, and reinstalling, a flange with a black Teflon rubber gasket. They were working in a 48-foot long, 24-foot wide, and 6-foot tall crawl space…...
At 11:05 a.m. on September 17, 2020, an employee, 34, was working for a water treatment support services company. He began to take a bolt off the motor of a distribution pump on a chlorine dioxide generation system (Unit #2)…. Membership Required You must be a member to access this content.View Membership LevelsAlready a member?...
On 8/9/21, the flex hose transferring chlorine to the furnace failed, and employees discovered the leak by observing a visible chlorine cloud. An exposed employee was hospitalized as a result of pulmonary edema…. Membership Required You must be a member to access this content.View Membership LevelsAlready a member? Log in here...
Employee #1 was mixing an automobile cleaning solution, which required that several chemicals to be added to a mixing tank. He would first weigh out the appropriate amount of a chemical and then use a chemical transfer pump to move it into an empty drum until the desired amount (by weight) was obtained. This task…...
