San Francisco Chronicle/Jaxon Van Derbeken, 10/13/12, "Chevron ignored risk in '11, workers say."
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| Chevron's Richmond oil refinery ignored pipe corrosion |
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Unchecked corrosion, the suspected culprit in the August blaze that
destroyed part of Chevron's Richmond refinery, was responsible for
another fire at the plant last year that prompted workers to complain to
regulators that the company was ignoring the problem, according to
state inspection documents obtained by The Chronicle.
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| Gas prices are higher while areas of the plant are sidelined |
The state Division of Occupational Safety and Health
inspector who investigated the smaller October 2011 fire - which
occurred during a scheduled maintenance shutdown and was quickly
extinguished - documented allegations from two workers that corrosion
was attacking the refinery and that employees could be at risk. "We're afraid something is going to fall through the cracks," one worker told Cal/OSHA safety inspector Carla Fritz,
who was investigating the fire in furnace piping at the refinery's lube
oil processing plant. His comments are documented in notes Fritz took
during her two-day plant visit in November."
.... Chevron's response. In
response to questions about corrosion and last October's fire, Chevron
said it "took the appropriate actions to protect the safety of its
employees and facilities" after the blaze. "We immediately responded,
shut down the affected operations, evacuated all nonessential staff and
successfully contained the incident."
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Posted by Kathy Meeh
2 comments:
The same thing would have happened had Whole Energy built their little 6th grade science project.
And to think some people supported this crappy project.
And someone said its as safe as a gas station
Hey we can remove the second firewall and save some $$
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